Word: makeing
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Whatever the message, Democrats still lack messengers of national heft ready to take on Bush frontally. Until now, he looked too strong to make an early effort worthwhile, and several possible candidates, including Cuomo, are running for re-election this fall. Cuomo argues, "It's still too early to concentrate on individuals. Ideas, positions, programs are most important." Yet Cuomo reports that the Democrats' new hopes have prompted a couple of prospects, whom he won't name, to sound him out for possible support. "They are starting to let the word out," he says...
Ultimately, men will have to be willing to draw the line for themselves and others. "A lot of us are unwitting accomplices," admits sociologist Edward Gondolf of the University of Pittsburgh. "It takes prompting and confrontation from women to make us understand." He knows. As a college football player, he watched a gang rape and laughed. Gondolf awakened to women's suffering and men's responsibility when his wife told him she had been raped before they met. That is a harsh way to learn a lesson. Better if players would remember that to the ancient Greeks, athletes were...
...officers has banded together in an organization called Shchit (Shield), dedicated to democratizing the notoriously conservative military. Shchit's members have demanded that Communist Party committees be removed from military units so that all political parties can compete equally for support among the troops. "Our goal is to make sure that the army is never again used against its own people," says Vitali Urazhtsev, 46, Shchit's founder. The group claims to have 3,000 members in military installations around the country...
...sandbar in the Persian Gulf that blocks much of Iraq's paltry 18 miles of shoreline. No one believes Iraq is actually eager to invade Kuwait to achieve these ends if they can be accomplished through coercion instead. But just the threat of an incursion may be enough to make Kuwait, with its puny military, accede to Iraq's terms...
While a repeat of the Arab oil embargo of 1973 seems a distant prospect, Saddam's sudden pre-eminence within OPEC does make it conceivable. The Iraqi despot has made clear that he believes oil should be used as a weapon in the Arab fight against Israel and its supporters, notably the U.S. If Saddam were gradually able to absorb Kuwait -- and Baghdad has long claimed, without any historical basis, that the country should rightfully be part of Iraq -- he would command an additional 10.3% of the world's proven oil reserves, making his country the unrivaled...