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...grown woman should admit, but I'm stressed about my back-to-school outfit. "You?'' a colleague asked when I sought wardrobe advice. "You're going to go back to school?'' Technically, my son's the one starting kindergarten. But I'm the one with the jitters. My firstborn is so nonchalant--about making friends, meeting his teachers--that he asked if he could walk himself to school when it starts...
...giving back to this community. But all join together in the same gift. It’s unifying and undauntedly positive. And for the cost of a movie ticket, you can be a part of this effort. We’re not asking for your first paycheck or your firstborn. (We hear that comes later...
HONG KONG Li CHEUNG KONG HOLDINGS/HUTCHISON WHAMPOA Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, is preparing to pass on the keys to his empire. Which son will he choose--the steady, cerebral firstborn or the flashy, creative younger son? 2002 Revenues: $20.5 billion...
Saddam Hussein's psychotic firstborn, Uday, enjoyed a long, sadistic reign as Iraq's sports czar. As chief of Iraq's National Olympic Committee and its soccer organization, he ordered the torture of athletes who performed below expectations. The national soccer team came in for particularly savage treatment: players had their feet scalded and toenails ripped off for failing to win matches. But on visits to Iraq, investigators from international sporting bodies, notably soccer's FIFA, never found people to testify to such charges - no player dared, for fear of getting far worse. On Saturday, TIME found what...
When President George W. Bush gave Saddam Hussein and his two sons 48 hours to leave Iraq last week, Uday, the firstborn, delivered the family's riposte. Iraqi forces, he warned, would make the mothers of U.S. soldiers "weep blood instead of tears." The tall, bearded Uday, 39, has long been a braggart--not to mention a libertine and a brute. He squandered his inherited power to sate a boundless avarice, smuggling everything from booze to baby milk to oil. His avocational sadism and sexual deviance are the stuff of Iraqi legend. "In his eyes," recalls a former colleague...