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Saddam's rhetoric is probably overblown. Iraqi soldiers may well surrender as readily as they did in 1991 after 38 days of heavy bombing. But the Iraqi leader, intelligence officials believe, is shrewdly calculating that the U.S. military brass--and the American public--cannot stomach the prospect of sizable losses in such an exchange. Think back to the debacle in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993 (chronicled in the movie Black Hawk Down), when 18 U.S. troops were killed, prompting a quick American withdrawal from that African nation. In Iraq there is the added risk that Saddam will use biological or chemical...
...collective wisdom of the market understands recessions better than the economists. Last week's revised figures show the economy contracted in not just one but three quarters last year. That deep pullback helps explain why the market began tanking in 2000, when economists were insisting the R word was overblown...
...Serbs fled during the war) do not mix much, keeping to their respective banks of the river, especially after dark. They don't share the same feelings about the bridge, either. While Muslims are uniformly enthusiastic, Croats say its significance - and the importance of the reconstruction effort - has been overblown by Muslims who want to stress the town's Ottoman roots. "The bridge is not a symbol of all of Mostar," complains Croat newspaper columnist Darko Juka. But even Croats like Juka are ready to recognize that a new bridge will bring much-needed money to the town from foreign...
...would be folly to try to diagnose Yoder--over the years, mental-health professionals have offered several different diagnoses, including bipolar disorder for a time and delusional disorder now. But to a layperson, Yoder seems more petulant than demented. He banged the table a couple of times. He said overblown things like, "I might die here, and if I do, shame on America, shame on the land of Lincoln." But that's the sort of thing you might say if you felt you were wrongly imprisoned. At his most unguarded moments, he seemed...
...worry about taking advantage of the policy has been overblown, Tremitiere said. “Having known people who this has affected, the risk of people faking it doesn’t even appear on my radar screen,” he said. “Its a drop in the bucket for the University while on the other hand this has hurt real people’s lives...