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...think about a rift in the making potentially graver than the latest hubbub. Even in Kuwait, where eagerness to unseat Saddam runs high, officials wonder if the U.S. is dangerously ignoring the region's other and perhaps greater threat: Iran. "Seventy percent of Kuwaitis just want to get rid of Saddam," says Mohammed al-Qadiri, a Kuwaiti businessman and former government official. "But the rest worry that if he goes, Iran will step in, and that, my friend, is real trouble." Some of Kuwait's top leaders have counseled against deposing Saddam because he is needed as a bastion against...
...this point, however, the fall season pales in comparison with the intense spring schedule. The players are using the four fall tournament events to rid their games of the summer kinks...
However, Brigham and Women's vice president of nursing, Mary Fay, said there are no plans to get rid of registered nurses or to take away their right to determine which tasks unlicensed assistants can perform...
...Trouble always follows those fraternities," Epps said. "I don't know why Harvard students would want to start up an organization that other universities are trying to get rid...
...limitations on U.S. policy are the direct legacy of the Gulf War, when the Bush Administration allowed Saddam to survive with his military machine intact, hoping some other force would providentially get rid of the meddlesome beast. None did. Yet if containment doesn't work very well, no one has come up with a better idea. Europeans advise a "critical dialogue" that would somehow persuade the renegade to mend his ways. Republicans laid out a five-point plan that was meant more to raise the bar on the President for decisive action than it was to offer substantial policy prescriptions...