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Saddam Hussein understands few things as well as the calculus of power. Even before President George W. Bush all but announced his intention to go after the Iraqi regime in his State of the Union address Tuesday, Saddam was hard at work mending fences with neighbors and making gestures of appeasement to the international community. Only hours before Bush listed Iraq, Iran and North Korea as members of "an axis of evil" threatening world peace, Iraq invited a United Nations human rights commissioner to visit for the first time since ousting them in 1992. Three days earlier, Baghdad had allowed...
...watching the burnt out towers on television as a red trickle of blood drips from the screen. Nick Bertozzi's piece has a man rush to the emergency room when a tiny plane lodges itself in his temple. But my favorite work, "Treasure," by Gregory Benton, tells of a neighbor's child staying over at the author's house as relief from the stress of his home, where the family awaits word of his missing firefighter father. Drawn in a charmingly idiosyncratic style, this deeply moving vignette typifies the power of these personal artistic works...
...glacier-clad peak, shaped like a pyramid. The People's Republic of China is the latest to jump on the bandwagon, announcing in 1996 that it had found Shangri-la in the mountainous Deqin prefecture of northwestern Yunnan province. Not to be outdone, Sichuan, its equally scenic neighbor to the north, has since claimed the title for its Yading Nature Reserve in the Konkaling Mountains. Its assertion is based on a 1931 National Geographic photo-essay about the area said to have inspired Hilton's tale...
...June, Sanders had a resume and a closetful of secondhand suits he got from a widowed neighbor of his mother's. He wore one every day. The women at his job-training program nicknamed him GQ. He grew a neat beard to look less threatening. He had interviews with every kind of business from messenger services to department stores including Macy's and K Mart but received not a single viable offer. The kinds of jobs he was most likely to get he couldn't take. Because of an old neck injury, he can't do heavy manual labor...
...August, he walked out of the shelter in a fit of frustration. His mother agreed to take him in temporarily. Soon afterward, a neighbor said Sanders could rent a 6-ft. by 12-ft. room with the $215 welfare check, if he would also help fix up the place. Elated, he went the next day to the welfare office and got approval. The check took three weeks to arrive, testing the patience of his new landlord. But at last he moved in. He shares a bathroom and a kitchen, but he has his own phone and a TV. "I feel...