Word: lampposts
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...greets us in a store window. At its foot there's a slapdash cornucopia of consumer goods: radios, a record player, power tools. In the upper half of the frame, which reports a reflection in the window, we see a twilit slice of Main Street, U.S.A., where a trusty lamppost rises like a beacon and a church steeple makes its dogged case for the spiritual life. Now look deeply into the center of the image to find its tiny punch line. A single glowing word, CASHIER, beckons from roughly the point where the picture's diagonals converge...
...White House can argue all it wants that Saddam's fate does not matter strategically. But it matters psychologically. For Iraqis, the new sighting confirmed their belief that, as a Baghdad resident put it, "we must see Saddam's body hanging from a lamppost before we can be truly at peace." Every fire fight, every explosion, every low-flying jet supports the widespread conviction. "No one believes Saddam is gone," says Ramzi, a Kirkuk oil worker. As cabdriver Faras Ahmad explains, "we have all been trying to forget him, but he's telling us, 'I am still here...
...with food aid and energy. And who knows? Perhaps Saddam Hussein--we're being charitable here--wants weapons of mass destruction not for offensive purposes but to cow domestic rivals so that he can be assured of dying in his bed rather than swinging from a Baghdad lamppost...
...city shares the sentiment: every street sign, lamppost, bus and taxi is bedecked in official logos; billboards have been raised just to welcome the hordes of interlopers who will take over this city for the next 16 days. At the airport, the arrivals area is stuffed with "Welcome" signs and banners, multi-lingual greetings and beaming IOC representatives...
...store was forced to buy insurance for them and tie them to the lamppost, to prevent them from falling over and hurting somebody...