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...over Iraq--Saddam's tiny air force hasn't once scrambled its jets since the start of fighting--raining down Wagnerian fury on cities and armies. In open combat, Iraq's armored divisions are being annihilated by allied forces. In such circumstances, it is natural for the Iraqis to resort to small-scale strikes on lightly armed targets, to avoid open combat, and to practice deception at all times...
RECONSIDER YOUR 401(K) PARTICIPATION. Cashing out your 401(k) retirement account early--and paying the resulting tax and penalty--is a measure of last resort only. One thing you need to question, though, if you will be receiving severance paid out over time, is whether to keep making contributions during that period. If you're vested and you will get a company match, by all means continue. If not, you may as well stop...
...over Iraq - Saddam's tiny air force hasn't once scrambled its jets since the start of fighting - raining down Wagnerian fury on cities and armies. In open combat, Iraq's armored divisions are being annihilated by allied forces. In such circumstances, it is natural for the Iraqis to resort to small-scale strikes on lightly armed targets, to avoid open combat, and to practice deception at all times...
...opulent marble palaces from which he has ruled, he built deep concrete bunkers reinforced with steel, stocked with weapons and linked to underground escape tunnels--the architectural metaphor for a dictatorship whose grandiose facade has rested on a foundation of insecurity. As U.S. bombs blasted apart those last-resort fortifications, even Saddam presumably had to take U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld seriously when he declared, "The days of the Saddam Hussein regime are numbered...
...then hopped on a plane and flew to this well-known Spring Break paradise, where bikinis (or no bikinis, depending on the beach) hold court, and resort owners go out of their way to make sure that vacationers forget about any “stress” whatsoever, including the bloodshed of fellow citizens and Iraqis alike 8,000 miles away. I was relieved...