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...police are accused of moonlighting as militiamen, using official vehicles and weapons. A three-car convoy belonging to Sunni M.P. Tayseer al-Mashhadani was stopped last month by 30 gunmen in a Shi'ite suburb. Al-Mashhadani and seven bodyguards were bundled into unmarked cars and driven away. An eighth bodyguard escaped and reported that the abductors had police-issue weapons. Al-Mashhadani hasn't been released. An even more audacious snatch came soon after: men in uniforms grabbed the chief of Iraq's Olympic Committee and 30 other sports officials. (Ten have been released, but the chief remains...
...more than five years old, his limbs flopping lifelessly as the two sweating rescue workers carried him across the rubble to a waiting stretcher. The grey dust and earth that matted his hair and caked his body had dulled his bright orange shorts and T-shirt. He was the eighth victim to be extracted from the horrific tomb of earth, sand and rubble in the past half hour, and the fifth child under...
When the green-glass Lever House building opened in 1952, it was called "the eighth wonder of the world." Nowadays the wonder is the building's eponymous restaurant, where chef Dan Silverman serves his imaginative seasonal menus. This cookbook allows the home cook to confidently re-create dishes like buttery cod with black-olive-and-onion confit or sorrel soup with smoked trout...
...That set up a Sunday coronation in Paris, along the Champs-Elysees. By custom, there's no racing on the final day if the leader has a significant advantage. Thus, an American was set to win an eighth straight Tour de France title. (A certain Texan named Armstrong won the last seven...
Brita Butler-Wall, executive director of Seattle-based Citizens' Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools, has been lobbying the school board for more than a year to get rid of the Coca-Cola contract. Yet, as a parent of an eighth-grader in a local public school, she says, "I don't want to see our district spending its money hiring more lawyers to fight a legal battle." Adam Drewnowski, director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington, says, "If you want to influence the school board, you run for a seat on the board. Threatening...