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Bremer, who is called Jerry--after his patron saint, Jerome--keeps a demanding schedule, rising before dawn and going to bed around 11 p.m. in an air-conditioned trailer on the grounds of the palace. His morning runs are often followed by an Arabic lesson in his office and then an 8 a.m. meeting with his top aides, at which he ticks off outstanding items and asks for a 30-second update from each staff member. He asks advisers to tell him what they have done and what they're going to do next and often cuts them off before...
...calls are from wives and mistresses on either side of the extramarital divide. With fewer neighborhood spies to keep track of a person's movements, such illicit relationships are burgeoning, but there's little chance to discuss these forbidden affairs except on programs like Ye's "Accompanying You 'Til Dawn." Other calls that Ye fields have brought tales of incest, spousal abuse and date rape. "My program provides a relatively private space for people to tell their stories," says the 34-year-old Ye, who prides herself on useful advice instead of simple platitudes. "Newspapers don't have so much...
...sweatier than I. These are the plebes: newly-minted high school graduates going into their first-year as midshipmen in the Naval Academy brigade. While their high school classmates spend the summer tanning, they head off to Annapolis for Plebe Summer. “Start your days at dawn and end them long after sunset, wondering how you will make it through the next day,” advertises the USNA website. “Forget television, leisure time, or movies. You will have barely enough hours to in the day to finish your assigned plebe tasks...
...nation. But Graham is just part of the Iraqi missionary wave, made up not only of nonproselytizing mainline charities but also of evangelical groups like his. Some offer only material aid; others aid plus the Good News. Others such as the International Bible Society and Discipling a Whole Nation (DAWN) will concentrate solely on spreading God's word. Not for decades has Evangelicalism enjoyed such an Iraqi beachhead. DAWN's Rich Haynie says that to the extent that the Allied bombardment induced Muslims to question their god, "we could say that the war was a ripeness moment...
...IMPRISONED. JOSE BOVE, 50, militant French farm leader; for 10 months for destroying genetically modified food crops; outside Montpellier, France. Propelled to fame as an opponent of globalization when he partially dismantled a McDonald's restaurant in 1999, Bov? was spirited to jail by helicopter following a dawn raid on his farm by 80 antiriot cops. Bov?'s conviction stems from protests denouncing the dangers of genetically modified crops, during which he demolished experimental plots of rice and corn...