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Uday was no less demanding at his parties. He was an expert at filling a highball glass to the top, without spilling a drop. Then he would force his mates to down an entire glass of liquor. When Uday was in the hospital after being shot, he called his friends in to cheer him up. Since he couldn't drink, he forced them to consume obscene quantities of alcohol, installing a stomach-pumping station in the next room for emergencies, says a friend. At the Boat Club, Uday kept a monkey named Louisa in a cage in the kitchen. Louisa...
...Zobel wrote another book, The Boston Massacre, making him the definitive expert on the 1770 incident when British troops fired on a mob of American colonists...
...planned to pursue a career as a Soviet expert, but struggled with Russian and soon realized that he did not want to spend his career reading communist manuscripts...
...albeit one wearing a suit and tie. For a city racked by instability and violence, President Bush's newly appointed civilian chief promised a new, no-nonsense approach to law and order. Referring to the thousands of criminals Saddam Hussein freed before the war, the seasoned diplomat and counterterrorism expert declared, "It's time we put these people back in jail...
...ELECTED. DR. JONG WOOK LEE, 58, South Korean infectious-disease expert, as director general of the World Health Organization; in Geneva. Lee, a 19-year veteran of the WHO, will begin his five-year term in July. After his election at the organization's annual meeting, Lee announced that the WHO would set up a $200 million fund to fight severe acute respiratory syndrome, or sars...