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Last May, Simmons librarians met with Iraqi librarians in Amman, Jordan to discuss how to connect Iraqi libraries with current cataloguing systems...
...many times. It rises from the bottom of wounds, pains, failures and defeats. His mistakes hurt you, bad, but after all he did he came back home, looked you in the eye, cried and embraced you. You and he, in times of hardship, were always together. Whether it was Amman, Beirut, or Ramallah, he was, literally with you in your pain. He held your shoulders and no matter how dark it got, you always knew he was right there next to you, and you were more than ready to take a bullet...
...after three years of squalid isolation in Ramallah, Arafat finally won his freedom last Friday morning, aboard a Jordanian military helicopter that ferried him to Amman. From there he boarded a French Embraer jet bound for Paris. Arafat's aides insisted he wouldn't die in exile, but never has his fate seemed more precarious. In Washington, where Middle East hands have long joked that Arafat would outlive them all, officials say privately that the Palestinians may be about to lose the only leader they have ever known. "It looks like it's very serious," says a senior State Department...
...every day. He can usually spot them by their cars - late-model Toyota Avalons, Peugeots, Mercedes and BMWs issued to Baathist leaders, with Iraqi license plates. These former officials from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, the mukhabarat (Iraqi secret police) and other parts of the Iraqi state apparatus cruise Amman's streets, roam its malls and enjoy its restaurants. "Two years ago, they brought us misery," Jamal says. "Now they're living it up in exile in Amman and we have to face them." Some of these same people harassed him and made it difficult for him to find work...
...Fekaiki says he also met with two representatives from Bechtel, the U.S. construction giant working in Iraq, at a January conference in Amman, Jordan. "We got no active response," he says. "A company like Bechtel is funded by U.S. taxpayers to do a job in Iraq. I don't think it sees its existence in Iraq as long term." Francis Canavan, a Bechtel spokesman in Baghdad, says the employees at the conference do not recall talking to al-Fekaiki. He points out that Bechtel, which won $2.9 billion in reconstruction contracts from the U.S. government, has set aside...