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...Riyadh. He was watching an Antonio Banderas thriller, curled up on the sofa in his home in al-Jadawel, a gated town-house complex in the Saudi Arabian capital. Suddenly the lights died, and the TV zapped off. Schlageter saw a flash and felt a thundering explosion that blew out all his windows. "I grabbed my cell phone, went upstairs to a secure room, called the U.S. embassy and told them we were under attack," he says. A vehicle loaded with explosives had blown up at the gates of the compound...
...lend a hand. Throughout the 1990s Yugoslav contractors defied U.N. sanctions and did business in Iraq: an outfit named Yugoimport built the Baath Party headquarters and at least five underground bunkers for Saddam Hussein. It also sold arms. That trade was finally shut down last year, after the U.S. blew the whistle and the recently assassinated Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic came clean...
...headquarters and at least five bunkers for Saddam Hussein. It also sold arms. That trade ceased last year, after the U.S. blew the whistle and Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic came clean (prior to his recent assassination). Belgrade then persuaded Yugoimport to hand over blueprints of the bunkers. A senior Foreign Ministry official says Yugoimport's leaders agreed to help "only when they understood that there would be something in it for them." While U.S. officials emphatically deny that such contracts have been promised, Yugoimport was back in Baghdad, reopening the offices that just last year were peddling arms...
...eight-run inning blew the game open for Dartmouth in the eighth. Harvard never led but had trimmed the Big Green’s lead to 7-5 in the seventh thanks to three Dartmouth errors...
...kids listening,” he says, “I know it blew their minds to hear that these people were not just talented, but really socially engaged. They were interested in so much more than themselves,” he says...