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...universities across the city, al-Rubaiyi and a few friends grabbed some weapons and headed for his college, determined to save it from the pillagers. They arrived late but fought their way through the mobs and managed to save most of the library by piling the books onto a dump truck and taking them to a nearby mosque for safekeeping. "Masar turned into a hero that day," says Salam Waheed, a teaching assistant at the college. "There was no student anywhere in Baghdad who did not know his name." Iraq needs his classmates to remember it for the right reasons...
...help of a few friends - two of whom handed over their insurance settlements from a car accident - LaBute raised $25,000 to bring his play In the Company of Men to the big screen. In 1997, the film, which has two guys (one of them Eckhart) seduce and then dump a deaf co-worker just for the sport of it, won him the Filmmakers Trophy at Sundance. LaBute was hailed as a caustic king, and lambasted as a woman-hater. "It's all just name calling," he says. "The premise that these guys work on - let's hurt a woman...
...blood between the fellow Democrats surfaced last January when Blagojevich ordered the closing of a waste dump operated by a distant cousin of his wife Patti. Her outraged father admitted helping the dump's owner but denied having any financial stake in it. And he shot back with pay-for-play allegations against his son-in-law's administration. Although Mell later retracted the charges, a grand jury investigation was launched, and Blagojevich aides have reportedly been subpoenaed. In more ways than one, Patti Blagojevich is caught in the middle. The Governor's office acknowledged last week that the first...
United crashed into the history books last week when a judge ruled that the airline, operating under bankruptcy-court protection, could dump its pension plans ON THE FEDS, relieving the airline of $9.8 billion in unfunded obligations. Here's the lowdown on the U.S.'s largest pension collapse...
...South Korean economic miracle. But the book remains vivid, especially when Becker describes his encounters with people fleeing Kim's totalitarian rule. In northern China, Becker joined a Chinese shopkeeper to hunt for refugees, for whom the Chinese government was paying 60? bounties. They found one near a garbage dump. "As the shopkeeper fished around in his pocket for some plastic twine, a dirt-covered face scabrous with pellagra that looked about fifty years old shrunk back into the shadows of a hood made from grey sackcloth, like a medieval leper," he writes. The woman, who was in fact only...