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...might not normally talk because we are competing. But we can loosen our shirts and sit back and talk about the challenges [in the field],” Foster said...
...turn at the machine, can't help but add a little personal oomph - a shoulder jiggle here or a hip swing there. Maybe that's because the DDR is strategically placed next to the space-age bar, so a little beer can help wannabe dancers loosen inhibitions. "You want to make the moves all your own," says Aldea, who also deejays hip-hop gigs. "That's what makes the routine last in people's minds for more than a few minutes." And if you pick up the freestyle title in the process, all the better...
...summit showed the limits of Saddam's comeback. What mattered was not the readiness to lift sanctions, but the continuing insistence that Saddam abide by U.N. resolutions designed to curb his military ambitions. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II were the most willing to loosen the economic noose, but they insisted Saddam accept his U.N. obligations and seemed stunned by his obstinacy. "Iraq," said influential Egyptian columnist Ibrahim Nafie, "does not want to help itself...
...admitted that more than half the bombs dropped in a raid on Baghdad earlier this month had gone astray. Both the U.S. and Britain said they will consider changes to the current sanctions regime against Iraq, which has lost support among some U.S. allies and has done little to loosen Saddam Hussein's hold on power. "Our sanctions are like Swiss cheese,'' said President Bush. "We're going to work together to figure out a way to make them more effective...
...much of this oppressive edifice. It has created civilian militia to help patrol rural areas, continued the practice of obligatory communal labor, and forcibly relocated hundreds of thousands of peasants into prefabricated settlements instead of the dispersed homes customary in Rwanda. Justified or not, these policies do nothing to loosen the hold of the state on Rwandan society. Reforming this structure could do more to prevent organized mass violence than anything else...