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...searched for in all those other men. In the famous beach scene, as waves crash over them, they lie down and she rolls on top of him, in command. "Nobody ever kissed me the way you do," she purrs ("kiss" being a metaphor for a closer form of contact). Suddenly he's proprietary, wondering how many men she has "kissed." "Can't you give me a rough estimate?" he asks, and she replies, "Not without an adding machine...
...criticized apathetic students several times, particularly those he came in contact with during shooting on University of Southern California’s campus. “I saw some real assholes at USC,” he said...
...details of available models and store locations, contact Suekichi's Tokyo-based distributor...
...carried out. President Jalal Talabani, for instance, was opposed to the death sentence on principle. But Iraqi officials accused the U.S. of shielding Hashem for an entirely different reason: the general had been a U.S. collaborator. American officials familiar with Hashem's role say he had been in secret contact with U.S. intelligence before the invasion of Iraq and had helped shorten the war by minimizing the Iraqi army's resistance to American forces. "We called him on the phone and said, Look, we will kill your units if you don't do x," a former senior officer...
Hashem's motivation may have been to save the lives of his own troops, who stood little chance against U.S. military might. And it was not his first contact with the Americans. In 1991 he negotiated a cease-fire with General Norman Schwarzkopf at the end of the first Gulf War. (Schwarzkopf would later say he was "suckered" by Hashem, who persuaded him to permit Iraq the use of helicopters later deployed by Saddam to kill thousands of rebellious Shi'ites.) Hashem rose to chief of staff of the Iraqi army and then Defense Minister. He remained popular with...