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...over their shoulders. To detractors, especially in the State Department and the CIA, he's an opportunist, a shameless self-promoter and an embezzler. He opened a bank in Jordan that grew into the country's second largest, then was expropriated by the Jordanian government in the late '80s amid charges of fraud. Chalabi was convicted in absentia by a Jordanian military court after friends, said to include Jordan's then Crown Prince Hassan, sped him out of the country. Chalabi has always maintained his innocence. Many State Department officials say Chalabi has been good at lobbying Congress for money...
...recent chaos is eroding the interethnic goodwill engendered by decades of sharing hardships under Saddam Hussein. Amid the scent of blooming lilacs and the smoke from burning oil, a united group of Arabs, Turks and Kurds pulled down the central statue of Hussein on Thursday. "We can coexist, we all had the same dream: to destroy the Saddam Hussein regime and get democracy. We don't want civil war," said one shopowner, Zuhair Muhammed. But just a few hours later, the streets were controlled by Kurds. Crowds of teenage boys rode in the back of pickups shooting their Kalashnikovs...
...role that song played in the battle against apartheid in South Africa, Amandla begins with the sight of children singing as they watch the exhumation and reburial of their executed father’s corpse. Closing with the sight of newly-elected president Nelson Mandela gleefully dancing amid throngs of followers, the film contrasts the violence of South Africa’s apartheid era with the humanity and emotion of both its Afrikaaner and black South African subjects. The movie tells the story of black South African freedom music and how it articulated and embodied the people?...
...throughout Super Bowl week.) Lebron James, the nation's top high school basketball player, got suspended in late January for accepting two throwbacks as gifts. Boosted by such celebrity consumers, sales for family-owned M&N have jumped from $2.8 million in 2000 to $25 million last year, amid an otherwise dismal market for apparel. And the knits keep coming: sales so far in 2003 are running twice as high as they were during the same period last year...
...pitching staffs to a mean sort of social Darwinism, has a way of making household names out of no-names. Consider the rags-to-riches story of Chaney Sheffield ’02, last year. A former walk-on, Sheffield was tabbed as a last-minute replacement last April amid a starter crunch not dissimilar to this weekend’s. Once he cracked the rotation, he never left, surviving all the way to the title-clinching victory in last May’s Ivy championship series against Princeton...