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Typical Friday night: Plotting dire vengeance upon my foes...
...Najaf, one of the holiest cities in Islam, is a crumbling slum. Poverty is not a condition found on the fringe areas of the city. It is endemic to the entire society. War has only made the dire situation more acute. Lives have been overturned. Lack of water and electricity add new miseries to an already arduous existence. The U.S. would like to think that its presence as "liberators" will give them hope for better life here. For now, however, the power vacuum created by the elimination of the Baath party makes the effort futile - and it may even threaten...
...troops. In early March, American soldiers chased suspected Taliban and al - Qaeda fighters across the border and met resistance from the Pakistani Frontier Corps. After one Pakistani militiaman was shot dead, the U.S. troops were ordered back to Afghanistan, according to an Islamabad antiterrorist official.- By Tim McGirk Dire Straight THE MEDITERRANEAN As terror concerns increased with the hostilities in Iraq, the 13-km-wide Strait of Gibraltar south of Spain got a new security system. NATO began quietly escorting allied civilian ships through the Strait to prevent a repeat of the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in October...
Bingham has made her career through portrayals of people in dire situations...
...investor role isn't always passive; sometimes it can be passive-aggressive, as the Quandt family has demonstrated. Herbert Quandt acquired a controlling stake in automaker BMW in 1959, when it was in dire straits. His heirs today own 47% of BMW's stock. The children of Quandt's third marriage, Stefan, 36, and Susanne, 40, sit on BMW's supervisory board. In 1999, angered by continuing losses at the automaker's Rover subsidiary in Britain, they ousted CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder in a boardroom coup. In Hamburg, the fate of Beiersdorf (Nivea skin cream) has been uncertain for months because...