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...girl and dangerous woman," says Russian-born Vukicevic. Further along at No. 37 is Le Vestiaire, tel: (32-2) 474 601 490; le-vestiaire.com, a workshop and showroom for the quirky casual wear of Caroline Foulon, Valérie Berckmans and Daniel Henry; and Céline Collard, who uses irregular-cut necklines, funky buttons and ruched sleeves to create T shirts a cut above the ordinary. And when the money is burnt and the plastic has melted, cool off with a cherry beer at De Walvis at 209 Rue Antoine Dansaert, tel: (32-2) 219 9532, the watering hole...
...Americans as ground zero, they claim they did not start the battle. Local clerics, municipal officials, community leaders and the insurgents themselves all say the hostilities were started by a raid from a "death squad" backed by the Ministry of Interior (MOI) - carloads of men in MOI uniforms and irregular forces in civilian clothes who entered Adhamiya after passed through the Iraqi army checkpoints. Indeed, sources within one prominent Shi'ite militia say their men were part of the Adhamiya raid, which was targeting top insurgent leaders holed up in a building. A report prepared by the local council...
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was having one of his irregular chats with Senators last Wednesday, speaking in the secret, soundproof fourth-floor Capitol chamber used for highly classified conversations, when someone interjected the question that was on everyone's mind. "What troop levels do we expect to have in Iraq a year from now?" asked Senator Bill Frist, the Republican leader...
...DIED. MAGGIE DIXON, 28, head coach of the U.S. Military Academy women's basketball team, who last month led the Black Knights to their first-ever NCAA women's tournament, where they lost to No. 6-ranked Tennessee in the first round; following an episode of irregular heartbeat, after collapsing; in Valhalla, New York. At the urging of her older brother, Pittsburgh men's basketball coach Jamie Dixon, the onetime WNBA hopeful took up coaching after failing to win a spot on the Los Angeles Sparks. The siblings are thought to be the first to coach at the NCAA tournaments...
...fine life, but these days high school dropouts need not apply. Even a GED is not sufficient for a job here anymore. Take a tour of the factory floor, and the main reason is clear. Some workers--entry-level employees--stand at their stations and pluck irregular pieces of fiber glass from the line. It's mostly mindless labor, but the giant whirring belts and chomping insulation cutters are run by adjacent computer terminals called programmable-logic controllers. When the floor boss goes on a coffee break, it's the floor workers who must operate the controllers. In today...