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...FAMILY BUSINESS. Saddam's two sons operate on a smaller scale but display their father's cunning and ruthlessness. Uday, 38, the headstrong elder child, long dominated most smuggling routes but was severely injured in a 1996 assassination attempt. That has propelled Qusay, 36, to the fore. He runs Iraq's pervasive security apparatus and has used that position to consolidate financial and political power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Saddam Inc. | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

SPORTS Iraqis are passionate soccer fans. Saddam's elder son Uday heads the nation's soccer federation and Olympic committee. Athletes who have fled the country claim that he regularly tortures players, coaches and referees who disappoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Up Close | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...course Bush the elder had it easy. Iraq had invaded Kuwait and he simply had to convince everyone to apply the UN founding principle, upheld across ideological lines, outlawing any aggression that violated a country's sovereignty. Bush the younger is trying to convince them to violate Iraq's sovereignty to the extent of invading and occupying the country, on the grounds that Iraq has failed to destroy prohibited weapons that could be used in terror attacks. And that's not exactly a no-brainer for the Security Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bush Can't Muster an Iraq Coalition | 3/7/2003 | See Source »

Broadbent and Bullock had a hard-fought match, but Broadbent put his elder teammate away, winning...

Author: By Robert C. Boutwell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Squash Finishes Season | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...meal atmosphere of the Tea House is easygoing and laid back. Tony pulled up a chair to join us. He told us about his brother who was formerly a Buddhist and now a follower of the Falon Gong movement, his sister who was a non-practicing Buddhist and his elder sister, a Christian. “I guess I am a Buddhist by choice,” he says with a chuckle...

Author: By Vanashree Samant, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Buddhist's Delight | 2/27/2003 | See Source »

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