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Saddam is everywhere. Though he never appears in public, his face and figure are inescapable. At traffic circles, you see little stone Saddams and big cast-metal Saddams, right arm raised to embrace his people. In front of a ministry, a brand-new bronze Saddam stands 20 ft. tall in the prow of a boat: the idea is that Saddam will steer his people to the shining shore on the other side of sanctions. On a wall, a white-suited Saddam is painted holding flowers; on another, a uniformed Saddam is staring through binoculars at a battlefield; on a third...
This is not to say the Blue Room is without its charms. Packed to its exposed wood rafters on a rainy Sunday night, the restaurant attracts a hearty dinner crowd of families, MIT types and the aforementioned business travelers. White tablecloths have been cast aside in favor of exposed metal tabletops, leaving a casual sort of place where you can ask to have a bite of your neighbor’s entrée (or at least that’s what the guy sitting next to me found appropriate). Finding high-quality food in such a low-pretense atmosphere...
...watched Stith slip on her weathered biking gloves, lower the tinted visor of her helmet into place and then close the heavy zipper of her black leather jacket, its metal studs gleaming in the sunlight, my highly developed journalist’s eye told me that this was no run-of-the-mill Harvard woman...
Silence isn't typical of Cairo cafes. Amid the blare of Arab pop music, the dice hitting the backgammon board and the clink of teacups on metal tables, just having an audible conversation can be tough. But these days dead silence from the patrons is not uncommon. In cafes with satellite TV, that hush comes every hour on the hour, when the news bulletin airs on the Qatari channel al-Jazeera, the pre-eminent Arab news network. At Cafe Lialina in the heart of downtown Cairo, the grisly footage of Palestinian corpses in the West Bank town of Jenin--mutilated...
DIED. LAYNE STALEY, 34, tortured front man of the grunge metal band Alice in Chains; of undetermined causes; in Seattle. Staley's brooding lyrics often invoked his heroin addiction. "When I tried drugs, they were [expletive] great," Staley told Rolling Stone magazine in 1996. "Now I'm walking through hell...