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Daily Bread for 1.16.13

Good morning.

We’ll have a breezy day, with a slight chance of snow showers, and a high of thirty-three, for the city’s midweek.

The Tech Park Board meets today at 8 AM.

Mostly, it’s people who catch fish. Mostly:

A person could catch fish this way, if he were bigger than the fish.

On this day in 1991, Operation Desert Storm began:

The United States and allied forces Wednesday night opened the long threatened war to drive President Saddam Hussein’s army from Kuwait, striking Baghdad and other targets in Iraq and Kuwait with waves of bombers and cruise missiles launched from naval vessels.

“The liberation of Kuwait has begun,” President Bush said in a three-sentence statement confirming the start of the attack that was read by his spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, shortly after the raids began.

Later, in a televised address to the nation from the Oval Office a somber Mr. Bush said that after months of continuous diplomatic overtures had failed to produce movement by Iraq, the United States and its allies “have no choice but to force Saddam from Kuwait by force. We will not fail.”

Google-a-Day poses a pop-culture question: “Rihanna got a tattoo across her fingers while wearing a piece of clothing with the face of what rock star?”

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