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Thus it was somewhat of a surprise that the antipathetic brothers were ultimately found together, holed up in a mansion on a busy thoroughfare in a suburb of the northern city of Mosul. In the end, they went down together, engaging U.S. forces in a four-hour battle before both were taken out of the house dead, provoking celebrations in Iraq and relief in Washington. The removal of two aces from the Pentagon's deck of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis provided a much-needed boost to a White House reeling from growing public suspicions that it stretched its case...
...already in development. Only thing that can stop it: Arnie gets stuck in the California Governor's mansion...
...jazz saxophonist on hold and headed with my girlfriend to experience Havana firsthand. Before long I was playing with El Septeto Tipico de la Habana, a talented and remarkably underpaid group of musicians who played weeknights at la Casa de Amistad (The House of Friendship). The casa was a mansion that had been nationalized to become a cultural institute and was now hosting Puerto Rican socialists on solidarity junkets, Cuban black marketeers and bureaucrats, and the occasional stray tourist...
...signed a petition to recall Governor Gray Davis? While Davis fights to save his job and Republicans fight each other for the privilege of replacing him, the state will be doing nothing to solve its $38 billion budget crisis. And no matter who ends up in the governor?s mansion once this fight is done, few voters - if any - will be happy with the results...
...male stars are considered essential to a burly action film, but the actresses who support them are interchangeable, disposable, like blonds in Hef's mansion. From the early James Bond films 40 years ago to this summer, action franchises have relied on new faces and nubile bodies. "We're always looking for new leads," says producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who this summer has Bad Boys II with Gabrielle Union and Pirates of the Caribbean with Keira Knightley. "What happens is the Julia Robertses of the world usually are booked...