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...time payment of $20, equivalent to a month's pay. As for order, some police officers went back to work in Baghdad, but all was not quiet there or in other cities. Those police officers were all products of the old regime, and many Iraqis were reluctant to accept them as arbiters of the new. In Kirkuk, says Ahmad Shakir, an Arab teacher from the Qadissiya district, Kurdish children with rocket-propelled grenades were going from house to house in his neighborhood, telling Arabs to move out in two days or die. "I went to the Americans...
...insists this time it's really, truly the end. After retiring and returning to basketball twice (and leaving baseball once), MICHAEL JORDAN says he played his final NBA game last week in Philadelphia. "It's time to move on," said Jordan, 40. "It's easier to accept because physically I know it and feel it." Though Jordan leaves after a disappointing two seasons with the Washington Wizards, his career accomplishments are staggering, including six championships and five MVP awards with the Chicago Bulls. "I never, never took the game for granted," Jordan said. Fans can say they did the same...
...circle had effectively disappeared and even though no weapons of mass destruction had yet been found and even though U.S.-controlled Iraq remained a chaotic mess (and even though Afghanistan--you remember Afghanistan--seemed to be slipping back toward chaos). Americans, tired of the TV show, seemed ready to accept a victory that hadn't quite manifested itself...
...adds: "I didn't keep anything. I just didn't throw anything away." The retrospective coincides with the publication of a weighty companion book and with the opening of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, a permanent archive and exhibit center. "It was very difficult to get Henri to accept the idea of the foundation," says Delpire, who is director. "He didn't want it to be a museum, or a mausoleum. He only agreed after he was satisfied that it would be entirely open to other photographers and artists." Located on a tiny impasse in Montparnasse, the artists' quarter where...
...Andrew Purvis. Reported by Pelin Turgut/Nicosia Potholed Road To Peace MIDDLE EAST The long-awaited road map for Israeli-Palestinian peace may be published this week, if Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and his cabinet are confirmed as expected. But the diplomatically arduous process of getting Yasser Arafat to accept Abbas, better known as Abu Mazen, and his slate of ministers shows that, for the international plan to have any hope of success, another road map will be needed - for peace within the Palestinian camp. "The heavy pressure from European and Arab leaders on Arafat produced results," says Palestinian Legislative...