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...Josephson's chief concerns. A former law professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, he specializes in teaching ethics courses to government officials, businessmen and just plain citizens. Whether the problem is statehouse wrongdoing or corporate misconduct, his telephone rings often these days with the same request: Can you help...
Just three days after Barzani spoke to TIME, his headquarters was a shambles as the commander tried to pull his forces together. For want of a better communications system, handwritten requests for supplies and assistance, scribbled on pieces of children's notepaper, were passed from soldier to soldier until they reached the chief. There was little opportunity to consider each message. Hearing news that Kirkuk had fallen to the Iraqis, Barzani waved off a request for an interview. Said an aide: "We can't hold the cities. We cannot deal with ground-to-ground missiles, helicopters, warplanes and heavy artillery...
...competence. But the general asserts that even the best Arab divisions were only about half as good as his own troops, who evidently rated a 10. The Soviet-trained Egyptian army, for example, was unable to adapt rapidly to fast-paced ground warfare. On one occasion Schwarzkopf had to request Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to order his troops into battle. Schwarzkopf also calls the Kuwaiti and Saudi ground forces the worst in the coalition, and he saves special criticism for inept Saudi army commanders, many of whom are members of the royal family. The allied chief preferred to deal almost...
...stop. Gordon's silence and stiff posture are strangely out of place in this acre of motion and life. He fixes his steady, unchanging expression on the lens of the camera, and slightly bends his lips, trying to comply with the photographer's simple request. Despite the smile, however, he stands upright, hands awkwardly at his sides, the Harvard insignia from his sweatshirt planted on his chest...
Take, for example, the recent St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City. Reluctant to disturb the predominantly Catholic flavor of the event, organizers rejected a request by a small group of Irish gays to appear in the parade. After threatening to disrupt the parade, the group was allowed to participate provided they not use their appearance to promote any partisan agenda. A victory for inclusion...