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...meeting with Saddam occurred the following evening, Feb. 12. We thought we would be taken to a bunker, perhaps far out of Baghdad. But everything was much more prosaic. We were escorted to a guest house in the center of the city. A power generator suddenly clicked on, and the house was filled with light. Then Saddam Hussein appeared with the entire Iraqi leadership...
During a recent class, for example, Bunker had the students do the 'crow walk.' "Make some sounds that remind you of a crow," she suggested to her class. And the students got down on the balls of their feet, squawking and creeping around the red wrestling mats like scavenging birds...
Later, in a more serious mode, the class performed a chant. Bunker began, singing in a soft voice: "Om Nama Shivaya." The chant, which "tunes you into yourself," according to Bunker, grew louder as the entire class joined her in the haunting chromatic scale. Their voices rose and fell, chanting the words over and over again...
After the hour is up, Bunker says she can see the difference in people's facial expressions. "What I see is that their faces are more relaxed, their eyes aren't so staring...
...doubtful, however, that Widerman ends his wrestling practices in the same spirit that Bunker ends her classes: Head bent down, she speaks solemnly to her class, "I honor you with all respect. I honor you with my heart...