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TIME's Kuwaiti headquarters was in the Kuwait International Hotel, which featured such amenities as no electricity, water or food, exactly the situation on which photographer Rudi Frey thrives. Rudi is our man on the scene who makes things happen -- in this case orchestrating a generator, spark plugs and picture-transmission equipment in a nonfunctioning capital to begin sending TIME copy and photographs. He also performs as local chief of morale, finding rooms on a low floor to spare staffers the stairs and even coming up with a rare set of clean sheets...
...will trigger an improvement in the economy by boosting consumer confidence and spending. "Peace is a jump-starter," says John Tuccillo, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors. "This is the catalyst that can get the thing cooking. It's not the whole story, but it is a spark, and that's important because this is an economy that needs a spark...
...easy to like and hard to forget, and it shows that Mitchell -- for all her restless musical experimentation -- has an undiminished skill in navigating some of the deeper estuaries of the mainstream. The album summons fond memories of Mitchell's formative years -- the times of Woodstock and Court and Spark -- but it's not an exercise in nostalgia...
...justify a land snatch as a means of liberating the Shi'ite majority in Iraq, which is dominated by a Sunni minority. Should moves to sunder Iraq begin, the country's Kurdish minority might rise up to carve its own state out of the north. That, in turn, might spark a rebellion among Turkey's Kurds...
...into a conflict in which he has nothing to gain. Even if Jordan manages to stay out of the actual fighting, there are other possibilities for its destabilization. Aggravated by the gulf conflict, tensions between the country's Palestinian majority and Bedouin minority, to which the King belongs, could spark an uprising...