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Although it rarely says so out loud, the Administration intends to kill Saddam--or capture him, if it must. Some in the Arab world say it might not be so easy: his inner circle will protect him, knowing they either hang together or hang separately. But others say if Baghdad falls, someone close to Saddam could step in to finish him off. In the end, Saddam could very well elude all his enemies thanks to his doubles, his secret hideaways and his nomadic way of life...
...moves along as Lily navigates new friends and new feelings of love while trying not be outcast or gain a bad reputation. Though it takes place in the late 1960s, nothing much has changed about the suburban teenage life except that they apparently didn't curse as much. Kids hang out in the woods and gossip about each other. A bunch of guys have a basement band and girls come to watch. Among other things, "Summer" creates an authentic portrait of one our great American subcultures...
...them to ‘say hi from Rich’...A customer tried to make out with me last night. She was from Tufts...Once, I saw these guys bringing a ladder over to the sign for the Crimson Grille which used to hang outside the bar. I waited until they put it against the pillars and tried to take down the sign with a toolbox, then I got a bunch of guys together to run out and yell at them. All but one of them ran, leaving the ladder and the toolbox. The guy who was left just...
...quaky and feeble by 1945. "When Churchill entered the room, he seemed to fill it," says Elsey. "His reputation, the aura that preceded him, was so great. We were in awe." Captain Ogden Kniffin, Elsey's Army counterpart, made it a practice on night duty to remove and hang up his uniform to keep it unwrinkled for morning show. Once, about 4:30 a.m., the door flew open and Churchill entered. The mortified Kniffin stood at attention in his underwear, wondering whether his career had come to an abrupt end. Churchill seemed not to notice...
...less than thorough even within its purview. It investigated only 83 cases out of hundreds of unexplained deaths because many of the victims' families were suspicious or too discouraged after years of failing to get answers. It solved only 34. "Too many cases were left unsolved," admits commission president Hang Sang Beom. "This is a blow against democratic reform." (The infamous 1980 Kwangju massacre was investigated by another body that ended its work last year. The government paid compensation of $190 million to victims and victims' families, although critics say the official death toll of fewer than 200 people...