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...Saddam's weapons. Armed with intelligence gleaned from fleeing refugees, the Americans could attack key targets inside the city with long-range weapons. Such a siege could help nurture one prized U.S. goal: Saddam's falling at the hands of his own people. "Baghdad is one of those classic cities that happen to contain all the kindling necessary to spark a revolt," says Scales. "You'd have the ruling elite and the army cheek by jowl with the people, who despise both the elite and the army." --With reporting by Matt Rees and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem
Under Lafley, P&G has stopped swinging for the fences and is once again playing small ball, dreaming up countless "new and improved" versions of its classic brands like Tide, Charmin and Folgers, and developing line extensions like Pampers baby clothes and the forthcoming Old Spice body spray. "We had gotten into a mind-set where innovation had to flow into new categories and new brands exclusively, and all I did was open people's minds to [the possibility] that it could also flow through our established brands," Lafley says in his typically self-effacing style...
...your basic, impossible 24/7 task. Fortunately, 31 years with Customs in Detroit has taught Anderson a thing or two about spotting liars. He is a classic American character with a deep faith and a laconic style inherited from his coal-miner father. Colleagues saw zero change in him after Sept. 11. "Doing it over 30 years, he doesn't get rattled," says his friend Bill Wisman, chief inspector for passenger-vehicle operations at the bridge and the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. "All I've seen in him," says his wife Linda, "is greater determination." On April 26, Linda awoke around...
...Yuen directed such classic martial arts films as Fong Sai Yuk and Hong Xiguan zhi Shaolin Wu Zu (released this year on DVD in the U.S. as Legend of the Red Dragon). He also choreographed Jet Li in seven action films. The director's flair for building memorable kung fu moments has put him in high demand in the U.S., where he has been asked by several studios to reshoot some of his earlier works in English. Sitting in a hotel suite overlooking the Hong Kong skyline, the jovial director insists his movies are not only about violent engagements...
...classic populism--we're making TV for the people, not for the pointy-heads--and as The Sopranos demonstrates, it is a load of crap. The show's highest-rated episode drew an audience of more than 11 million (not counting viewers of its repeat episodes), though only a third of American TVs (about 38 million) even have HBO. Not only will ordinary folks watch a show that demands constant attention, resists easy closure, relies on subtext and is rich with metaphor--they will pay near usurious subscription fees for it. In one new episode, Tony sees squirrels eating...