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Why have America's Arab allies from Operation Desert Storm been so skittish about a sequel?
A WP front-page piece reveals that even though the B2 stealth bomber is the most expensive aircraft ever built ($2 billion a copy), and could drop large numbers of "bunker buster" bombs on Iraq without ever setting foot on skittish Arab runways, it's not likely to see action over Iraq.
And past crashes may make October downturns more likely: Since they have left a psychological scar, investors may be especially skittish during the month.
A piece suggests that Americans are not as skittish about battle casualties as the conventional wisdom dictates: During the Gulf War, 84 percent of Americans backed the use of ground troops.
The WP , historically very skittish in its treatment of race, doesn't complicate the story with the inconvenient but true observation that since most whites know better than to use the N-word epithet, and since it has become a common phrase of salutation and even endearment among blacks, a high proportion of its current usage is in fact as a synonym for "black person."