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Kasim al-Falahi, a former Iraqi ambassador to Lebanon who headed the mukhabarat in southern Iraq from 1996 to '98, was a typical victim. Last month, on a morning when the power was out, he was sitting with his cousin Shahab Ahmed Hamid, catching a cool breeze on the front porch of the office of their Baghdad transportation company. Three men appeared in an old government truck. According to Hamid, the men initially said they wanted to discuss a business deal in Basra. But they soon pulled out pistols, hustled al-Falahi into a waiting black BMW and drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vengeance Has Its Day | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...incognito stints at Fiat operations: a headlight plant in England, a production line in Poland. He continues to plug away in obscurity, and has declined to answer press queries about the future. Questions in the past were related to the tragic circumstances of Elkann's rise. Originally, his cousin Giovanni Alberto Agnelli had been tapped, but he died of cancer in 1997. Three years later, Gianni's son Edoardo committed suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN ELKANN. FIAT: With the Grace of Grandpa | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

There’s not a thought in anyone’s mind of cheering on the opposing quarterback because you went to school with his cousin...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Could You Ever Root For Yale? | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

...known as “Lorenzo the devil” in sixteenth-century Florence, the hedonistic favorite of the Duke Alessandro de Medici, his cousin and eventual assassin. Never predictable, mostly because he was perpetually drunk and always irreverent, he became a symbol of Florentine decadence, a worthy complement to the debauchery of Alessandro himself...

Author: By Lily X. Huang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Visiting Director Stages 'Lorenzaccio' | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

While such punctuation is not regularly employed when talking about the team’s back court, neither is its crooked cousin...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Solid Back Court Promises Depth | 11/19/2003 | See Source »

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