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...Saddam a threat to U.S. security? It is nightmarish to think he could be that stupid. What we have is a President who has a personal quest to get Saddam. Bush said Saddam tried to kill his dad. Does that justify starting a war? DENO PASCUCCI Coconut Creek...
...stories about childhood loss of innocence into Small Deaths. At the time, Ramsay recalls, "many students were worried about not getting a job. But I always felt you were at college to take risks." Hers paid off at Cannes. Her second short, Kill the Day, a nightmarish junkie tale, won the Clermont-Ferrand Prix du Jury, and 1997's Gasman, about the tangled relationships of a family on its way to a Christmas party, reclaimed the Cannes prize. It also won her an invitation from BBC Scotland to write and direct Ratcatcher. Her work to date may be art-house...
...fortunate even to have a firm offer at all. Too often, grad students are left juggling various competing conditional offers, attending multiple lectures during shopping week and not knowing if they’ll be teaching for one, another or none of the courses. This is a nightmarish situation both for grad students and faculty, and its implications for the quality of undergraduate education are clear. A non-binding preregistration period would of course not eliminate the enrollment uncertainty associated with shopping period, but the uncertainty would be substantially reduced. As a result, course staff rosters would typically be fixed...
...appearance. Inspecting the assembled ensemble of toners, astringents and masques, I did the math. Did I really want to spend fifteen minutes a day applying all this gunk only to look fourteen again? Suddenly, all the angst and agony of my early teens came flooding back. Putting aside the nightmarish aesthetic trifecta of braces, pimples and school uniforms, there were also the socially horrific memories of gym class, trigonometry and that embarrassingly cliché infatuation with Tom Cruise. The fountain of youth may have been discovered—and bottled at just $80 a pop?...
Other vulnerable points are intake pipes and large exposed mains that can be severed with a few sticks of dynamite. Water-security officials are envisioning even more nightmarish scenarios, such as an attack on a municipal water-distribution system just as fires are set around the city. "If you had no water at all in your community, it would be a tinderbox," says Curtis...