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Clearly, the current calm is illusory. Souter's confirmation is no done deal. In one way or another, abortion will be the litmus test that determines Souter's fate. In the end, he could be rejected simply because he believes ; that legislators should make the law, that the right to abortion is a matter best left for the states to decide...
Saddam's move is an unexpected test of whether nations will pay the necessary price to assure peace and stability in the post-cold war world. -- Tough international action is needed to make sanctions against Iraq stick. -- Oil shock? Is another one forthcoming? -- Iraq's dictator seems capable of doing anything...
...former policeman named Lennox Phillip went to Canada to study engineering and returned to Trinidad as Yasin Abu Bakr, an ardent Islamic radical. Bakr soon became the leader of the Jamaat al-Muslimeen, or Group of Muslims. The Islamic splinter group, with few ties to the mainstream Muslims who make up 6% of the Trinidad and Tobago population of 1.3 million, espoused a potent mixture of religious fundamentalism and left-wing politics. The self-styled "Imam" traveled to Libya and was a vocal supporter of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, but the main interest of his armed band of militants, he said...
Theme-park and cruise-ship shows keep alive the spangled Busby Berkeley dance traditions largely abandoned by Broadway and Hollywood. They honor theater-music classics that no longer make the pop charts. From Wild West rarees to Victorian parlor skits, from Tin Pan Alley to '50s nostalgia, the shows reacquaint the public with styles of entertainment that Broadway once thrived on, and thus conceivably make it possible for such works to prosper anew...
...stamina. Even harder, they learn to keep fresh a routine they are performing for the 300th time but that spectators are seeing as if brand new -- all for about $300 a week. (Cruise ships pay better but often impose double duty, asking performers to run shuffleboard games or even make beds...