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Saddam could elect to do nothing. No withdrawal, total or partial, nor any promise of one; no further hints at a compromise deal; nothing. He would simply dig in deeper in Kuwait and dare Bush to put up or shut up on his threats to expel Iraq by force. That would amount to a hair-raising game of chicken in which Saddam would be betting that Bush would turn away first. Possibly, or so the Iraqi dictator seems to think, the American President will lose his nerve at the last second. Or perhaps Congress, the U.S. public and the allies...
Taxonomists who dare enter Cabot will find four distinct species of premeds--studying, eating, drinking, (but certainly not mating) in the catacombs of the Science Center...
...greeted the President-elect in Gdansk with sparklers and brass bands, Walesa took time to remind Poles of what heroic struggles can accomplish. Declared the country's first postcommunist choice as head of state: "Since we defeated the system without one gunshot or one drop of blood, we can dare to build a new system...
...Dare, yes -- but succeed? Adam Michnik had his doubts. In his newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, the longtime Solidarity adviser said he feared that his estranged former comrade, like the sorcerer's apprentice, had conjured up baleful forces that would have a life of their own. The campaign, Michnik wrote, had unveiled a "society filled with mental chaos, xenophobia and aggressive populism, and a longing for the strength of an iron hand...
...This country is insane and immoral and has no conscience," he shouted as the audience applauded. "How dare [we] pretend to be the police of theworld?" he asked...