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...monthly cash stipend. Even if men make some early bad decisions, she argues, they will learn quickly, and wives will find them generous. (Try telling that to the naive women standing in divorce court or dealing with their dead husbands' debtors.) If your husband misses the right freeway exit, stay quiet, she counsels, even "if he keeps going in the wrong direction...past the state line." If he asks for your opinion on which shirt to wear or how to deal with the boss, you should smile serenely and say, "Whatever you think," because by "telling him what you think...
...hello," says Penn, making his exit, "and congratulations...
...think my classmate smiled back, and now there was definite chatter. Some kids who had never slackened their pace were by now rounding the corner towards the Science Center's exit. I felt a little guilty about the break of levity--it was probably better to be safe than sorry--so I sped up again...
...Bush to call it off after four days, once Iraqi forces were in retreat from Kuwait. Thus what has come to be known as the "Powell Doctrine" - prudent use of military force, but deployed in dimensions so overwhelming as to make victory a certainty, and always with a clear exit strategy. Fashioned in response to Vietnam, the formative experience of Powell's generation of commanders, the doctrine stands in marked contrast to the ways in which U.S. military force was used during the Clinton years...
...destruction is not only physical. The whole concept of a state has been distorted. At the airport, militiamen charge landing fees and sell exit visas. Anyone with $30 can buy an official Somali passport in the central Bakara market, though few countries will recognize it. A few stalls away, moneychanger Bashir Moalim Mohamed opens a huge safe packed with $10,000 worth of Somalia shillings. "I am the central bank," he says, pulling out stacks of new notes recently imported by local businessmen from a printing company in Canada. What about protection? Mohamed plucks a rusty M-16 assault rifle...