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While I wait, the souvenirs on sale are distracting enough: pamphlets on buying and selling sex in Amsterdam, t-shirts and figurines, reports on sexually transmitted diseases, bulk-pack Durex condoms charmingly renamed Beneluxe for regional promotion...
Every August for the past 19 years, Elizabeth Chapman Hewitt has seen her students pack their belongings and leave Cambridge for destinations throughout the country, carrying with them memories of their Harvard experiences. Today she will join them...
...massive, marble-lined palaces he erected all over Iraq as monuments to his power. According to close associates, he would stay instead in small houses on the edges of his various compounds, changing location every eight to 10 hours and keeping an assistant on duty around the clock to pack and unpack his suitcases. Saddam, his former secretary says, so admired the fortitude of the Bedouin tribes that wander the Iraqi wilderness that he often headed into the mountains--accompanied, of course, by caravans of aides, cooks and bodyguards--to bed down among them. "He lived very simply," says...
...STINGS Speed is key. Scrape the stinger out with a credit card or fingernail. Using tweezers could force more poison from the venom sac into the skin. But if tweezers are the best you can do, use them. Then apply an ice pack and watch for signs of an allergic reaction...
...vicious, powerful right-wing press," in Oborne's words, proved a searing experience for Campbell as well as many other Labour supporters of this period. It's a primal source of the determination he has shown as Blair's spokesman to exert iron discipline not only on the press pack but on Labour politicians who might be inclined to deviate from the centrally determined line. He won high marks from the press as Blair led Labour's comeback and first years in government: competent and sharp, a brilliant tactician and worthy opponent, able to represent Blair's views with total...