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...impossible, and even under good conditions it can require novel, high-risk tactics. "We are going into situations that, absent homes and property, we wouldn't be putting fire fighters into," says Frye. Now and then rugged cabin dwellers tell Frye they don't expect the Federal Government to defend their dwellings, but when the flames reach their door, Frye says, such proud individualists always change their tune...
...estimated 160,000 children each day miss school for fear of being picked on, according to the National Association of School Psychologists. Typically, these students are different in dress or appearance or seem unlikely to defend themselves. In addition to academic failings, they suffer such physical ailments as stomachaches and headaches as well as psychological troubles that in extreme cases include suicidal tendencies...
...Gulf War, Cheney was far more aggressive about countering Saddam Hussein by military means than Powell, who, like Baker, believed that economic sanctions would bring Iraq to heel. Just two days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Cheney was pushing for American troops to go in to defend Saudi Arabia. "Dick was probably ahead of his military on this," Bush wrote in his and Scowcroft's memoir, A World Transformed. Cheney was dispatched to Saudi Arabia for one of the most sensitive missions of the war, persuading King Fahd to agree to a massive deployment of U.S. forces...
...even as I emerge from the thick haze of highly seductive rhetoric that's enveloped this week's proceedings, I'm left with a grudging respect for people who fiercely defend their involvement in the Republican party as a vehicle for national improvement. (I don't agree with them, mind you, but at least I no longer respond to the presence of a Republican by sticking my fingers in my ears and singing tunelessly "La la la la I can't hear...
...Committee to Defend Healthcare (Saturday, July 29): Demonstration by medical professionals, labor unions and other activists in support of universal health care...