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...know the answer to that even before we walk into the beachfront-mansion party with the cocaine snorting and the three-ways. But The O.C. uses another novel device that separates it from 90210: acting. The Ryan role begs for faux-James Dean histrionics, but instead McKenzie gives cool, understated readings to lines like "Where I'm from, having a dream doesn't make you smart. Knowing it won't come true--that does." Likewise Gallagher, as a street-smart lawyer from the Bronx who married money, and Adam Brody, as his nerdy, dryly funny son--who fits in even...
...trappings of a failed state are few. Liberian President Charles Taylor announced his resignation in a small, stuffy auditorium in the executive mansion, where the curtains consist of cheap red velvet and the chairs are painted gold. The mirrors on the pillars were dirty and paint-speckled, and the microphone volume waxed and waned. The traditional venue for state ceremonies, the Centennial Memorial Pavilion, lay too close to the front line. Until a last week, mortar shells had been falling all around...
...particular was not known for his valor--"He doesn't kill anyone with his own hand. He is a coward," a longtime family servant recently told TIME--the shooting from the second story continued for more than an hour. At 1 p.m., American Kiowa helicopters spit rockets into the mansion while ground troops launched 40-mm grenades and 10 antitank TOW missiles. A group of soldiers entered the house again; it was quiet this time, save for a few shots from the bedroom fired by Qusay's son Mustafa, 14, who was killed when the troops returned fire...
...force. "I wanted them arrested so we could see them on TV," says Hassanin Mohammed, 23, who runs a tiny store that sells fans in the Karrada district of Baghdad. "Most people around here don't believe they're dead." But the ferocity of the resistance mounted inside the mansion suggested that the brothers had no interest in giving up. Sanchez said the option of pressing harder for a surrender was considered and rejected by commanders on the spot, without intervention from senior officials at Central Command or in Washington. "You could say we should have got them alive," says...
...wind up there. Qusay took his son Mustafa to the house, says the butler, "because he depended on him. He could go and switch on the generator or go shopping. His face is not very well known." Abdul Jabar Mohammad Arif, who owns a bread shop opposite the mansion, says he noticed nothing unusual until the night before the raid, when al-Zaydan came by to pick up 60 loaves of flatbread. Normally, his wife bought just four or five each day for the immediate family. "I thought he had some party or guests," Arif says...