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...Zubeidi was killed Tuesday, driving near his home on the main street of al-Adil neighborhood in western Baghdad. Fellow defense attorney Thamer Hamoud al Khuzaie had been riding with al-Zubeidi and was wounded when four gunmen emerged from a gray Opel and riddled their red Proton sedan with bullets. Police and U.S. troops arrived at the scene and took the injured al-Khuzaie to an American hospital in Baghdad...
...murder spree has erupted in Washash, as in countless neighborhoods across Baghdad. Death squads, which tend to move in Opel sedans, are entering what once were tight-knit communities and killing ordinary citizens, apparently to stir up sectarian hatred. The goal: to incite a civil war that each side hopes will give its sect dominance over the other. In Baghdad, a city of more than 5 million, there were at least 880 violent deaths last month, according to Faiq Amin Bakr, director of the Baghdad central morgue. (In New York City, with a population of more than 8 million...
Take Fritz Opel, 61, who is happily enjoying retirement with his wife Jeri, 52, and his stepson Jordan, 13. Opel's 35-year-old twin sons had long ago flown the coop, but downsizing was not in the cards. After retiring from his marketing-executive job, Opel wanted to enjoy the high life. So in 2003 he plunked down $1.7 million to build his dream home in San Diego, complete with a pool and three-tier waterfall, a wine cellar for a 600-bottle collection, a four-car garage, a 500-sq.-ft. kitchen and five bathrooms--all just...
...educators and community leaders. To launch the awards, TIME last month published a special section in its campus editions called "Portraits in Excellence," in which 14 illustrious former college students, including Astronomer Carl Sagan, Journalist Barbara Walters, Architect I.M. Pei, Choreographer Agnes de Mille and IBM Board Chairman John Opel, were asked to look back at their school years and reflect on the question "What prepared you to excel, and why?" We hope the answers will provide inspiration for today's college achievers...
...adapts its menus to local taste; its restaurants serve Kiwi burgers in New Zealand and wine in France. But that hasn't prevented the fast-food chain from being a favorite target of French protesters. And General Motors has for decades made cars in Germany under the German brand Opel. But when GM last fall moved to stem years of heavy losses at its European operations by cutting 12,000 jobs, about 20% of the work force, the newsweekly Stern ran a cover depicting an American cowboy boot decorated with the Stars and Stripes stomping on German workers...