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...resolution proves unattainable, how difficult would it be for the U.S. to turf out Saddam and rebuild Iraq without U.N. support? In terms of actually fighting a war, there shouldn't be a problem. American soldiers (some of them, at least) tend to dismiss those of other nations. "They get in the way, can't speak English too well--except for the Brits--and their weapons can't keep up with ours," says one Army officer. Indeed, with or without a U.N. vote, Pentagon plans for a war assume that only the British--who will provide about...
...assemble a majority on the Council is that most of the international community remains opposed to war. By dealing with countries one-on-one, the U.S. is often able to bring to bear enough leverage to bring doubters into its column. But signs of resistance anywhere along the line tend to reinforce reluctance elsewhere to go along with a move to war within the two-week deadline for discussion set by the U.S. when it introduced its resolution this week...
...found America the friendliest, most forgiving, and most generous nation I had ever visited,” Borges once said. “We South Americans tend to think in terms of convenience, whereas people in the United States approach things ethically. This, amateur Protestant that I am, I admired above...
...People tend to be really interested that I’m an over-educated banjo player,” Brown admits. Especially nine-to-fivers who secretly harbor artistic ambitions? She shrugs. “Everyone has something in their fantasies that they’d like to be doing...
...that magazines would move away from the detached, “you’re pear-shaped, this is the page for you” idea common in mainstream women’s magazines. However, she said that editors run into problems casting more full-figured models because they tend to be underrepresented by modeling agencies...