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...weeks into the war in Iraq, the maid realized something was up when her boss, Saddam Hussein's nephew, told her to bone up on a Tikriti accent so that she wouldn't attract attention as a Baghdadi when the family moved north. Two days later, she says, she found herself in a convoy of cars with Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay, headed for a rendezvous in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, with the Iraqi dictator. The 18-year-old woman, who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity, was a live-in employee of Farhan Ibrahim Migdal al-Dolaymi...
After beginning his coaching career at a school that is regarded as one of the toughest in the nation to attract players, Sneddon is moving on to a scholarship school in a largely non-scholarship league that has struggled in recent years but has a strong tradition and nationwide name recognition...
...ties on a rubber band didn't give the country a good image," says Ladislav Spacek, Havel's former spokesman. Today, the soldiers wear fetching grey-and-blue uniforms, complete with tassels and shoulder braids in the colors of the Czech flag, and their changing-of-the-guard ceremonies attract scores of tourists. But last week the unit was once again a source of national embarrassment, following revelations that nine soldiers stripped for a porn website and two others face criminal charges for posing as police and shaking down prostitutes. President Václav Klaus ordered the offenders punished...
...only the quality places survive. Josef Laggner, 37, owner of the Lutter & Wegner restaurant in East Berlin, says he has to seek out customers. "West Berliners don't go out to dinner very much anymore and East Berliners stay in their neighborhoods," he says. "I have to attract convention goers, business groups and tourists." Despite its malaise, Berlin has some solid achievements. The city has built clusters of knowledge-based industries in the software, media and biotech sectors. Hans Estermann, managing director of the Berlin Business Development Corporation, says the city has attracted about 1,500 jobs in the first...
...insurgency to sustain itself and attract new recruits beyond the existing cadre of die-hard Baathists - and, possibly, pockets of Sunni Islamists and disaffected former army officers who have suddenly found themselves with no source of income since the U.S. two weeks ago dissolved the Iraqi army - the U.S. would have to badly botch its efforts to win Iraqi goodwill. But therein lies the rub: Although the U.S. is a long way off from alienating the majority of Iraqis to the extent that they'd consider taking up arms against the world's most powerful military, it has not, thus...