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...helped triple sales at Philips' accessories unit in the past three years. "I've said many times, consumer electronics should be a lifestyle business; it should be a fashion business," says Rudy Provoost, the former CEO of Consumer Electronics who is set to run the lighting division starting in April. "There's too much electronics in consumer electronics and not enough consumer...
...international medical organization Doctors Without Borders (which goes by its French acronym MSF), which operates in such dangerous and far-flung places as the Central African Republic, Somalia and Darfur, says, "the security is not allowing us to go to Baghdad." MSF was operational in Iraq in 2003 from April to Nov 2004 when it closed its projects and withdrew their staff. "It became increasingly dangerous to be even associated with a humanitarian organization," he says. Today MSF has an office in the northern Kurdish region of Iraq, where it is considerably safer but also far removed from the treacherous...
...Thursday morning in April 2003, Dr. Said Hakki woke up in his Tampa, Florida, home and drove to the hospital where he had worked for years to perform a routine prostate surgery. After scrubbing out, he drove to the airport, caught a flight to Washington, D.C and then another to Baghdad, the hometown he hadn't seen in 20 years. "It went back centuries - not decades," Dr. Hakki says of his first impressions. Now the president of the Iraqi Red Crescent Organization, the country's largest aid group, he bemoans the lack of humanitarian assistance in Iraq. "I used...
...amiable and popular Foreign Secretary, who earned worldwide admiration for his 1979 negotiation of an end to the Rhodesian civil war, was unafraid of political criticism but felt strongly that his resignation was a matter of honor. Thatcher and Deputy Tory Leader William Whitelaw tried hard over the April...
...sacred annals of crazy young love, Atheer Lokus may have opened a whole new chapter of recklessness. The 20-year-old restaurant manager was living safely in Ankawa, a Christian town in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, until April 2006, when he began chatting over the Internet with Miriam Eliasan, an 18-year-old Christian girl from Dora, one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods. After six months of trading photographs and sweet nothings, he decided that he could no longer live without her. So he drove all the way to Baghdad, where, after getting caught in a firefight between militants...