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To listen to young Jabar and Hussein, privates in the Iraqi army, was to know the story of their country last week. A bag of spoiled dates -- "food for cattle," Hussein called it -- was their only sustenance as they plodded down a rain-sodden highway littered with ravaged tanks in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Seeds of Destruction | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

Nothing to do! Their country has been snatched by a thief; Americans, Egyptians, Britons and Saudis, among others, are braving the gulf deserts and Saddam's rockets to win it back for them, and these two able-bodied young men say there is nothing to do. For those who do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On The Disco Front | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

If America is at war, why are Americans still acting like a bunch of spoiled brats?

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: An Amoral Equivalent to Peace | 2/6/1991 | See Source »

Unless you count Walter F. Mondale's "I will raise your taxes" speech at the 1984 Democratic convention, that was the last genuine attempt to impose discipline on a nation of spoiled brats. Absent a major war, there seemed no way to get people to see past their narrow self...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: An Amoral Equivalent to Peace | 2/6/1991 | See Source »

In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley by Sally Bedell Smith. Paley, the founder of CBS and a Manhattan socialite, died not a moment too soon to avoid seeing himself debunked in this best-selling biography. "Paley," says the author, "was as spoiled as a man could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of '90: Books | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

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