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...bigger battle than they had anticipated. With two tanks firing as they withdrew, the Iraqis yielded their outer ring of bunkers but stood fast on the city's outskirts. Iraqi soldier Riaz Jihad Zahir explains why he and his comrades stayed. "The officers had told us Baghdad had fallen, but they said the execution squads would kill us if we left," he says...
...sign when a major competitor, Germany's Fairchild Dornier, filed for bankruptcy in April 2002. Embraer's usually brash ceo, Maurício Botelho, 59, last month observed in nervous executivespeak, "The aerospace market right now is very sensitive to change." Investors feel the same way. Embraer stock has fallen from the high $30s before the 9/11 attacks to about $14 in recent days. Shares in Bombardier are stuck below $3, down from about $18. The good news for Bombardier Inc. is that it has a respected new chief executive in Tellier, 63, who arrived in January. A roll...
...images of impassioned Iraqis taking sledgehammers to a statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad flooded the airwaves on Wednesday. Meanwhile, headlines worldwide proclaimed that Hussein’s Baghdad had fallen. But the statue’s destruction—which U.S. marines, using a cable fixed to a tank, eventually helped to orchestrate—hardly indicates the dawning of a new age of democracy. An Iraqi reenactment of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this was not. As British journalist James Bays told the Washington Post, “Total control has been replaced by sheer anarchy...
...others display similar messages, substituting “holy” with everything from “whining” to “blue.” These were added just recently, and Tan recalls some posters by the same artist that had fallen down in recent years...
...Adams House? Does the 7 represent part of a never-to-be-forgotten SAT score? Does the 5 in an ID number mean that the holder is an admissions mistake? According to David R. Wamback of Harvard University Identification and Data Services, the conspiracy theorists have once again fallen into the great pitfall of their trade—the tendency to spin such scandals out of nothing...