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...muscles slack. 9, 10, J, Q, K. Clubs. Didn’t even see it. No triumphant turn of cards. No raking of the pile. No obnoxiously loud stacking of chips...
...become a ritual. Each Friday hundreds of young, impoverished Shi'ite men would pile into beat-up Kia minibuses in a Baghdad slum known as Sadr City. They would travel the 90-mile highway to the holy city of Kufa to lay their prayer mats inside the mosque, jockeying for a spot as close to the podium as possible. Whenever the white car carrying their leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, came into view, the scene would turn into pandemonium. Bodyguards with Kalashnikov ma-chine guns would struggle to carve out a path so al-Sadr could reach a platform beneath...
...future. Following the success of movie DVDs, which now bring in more money than the box office, TV DVDs made more than $1 billion last year and are expected to reap even more money this year. And TV executives, who can smell a quarter buried in a pile of gym socks, have taken notice. "A show like Family Guy could not be justified in the old TV model," says Gary Newman, president of 20th Century Fox TV. "Now we have a new model that allows us to put high-quality programming...
...like a painting, or at least a good one, Soth's photographs have layered meanings. At first glance his picture of Sugar's, a place in Davenport, Iowa, appears to show a room where everything--the upholstered chair, the thick synthetic pile of the carpet, the strident green walls--reaches toward some misconstrued and imperfectly realized ideal of home. But the plot thickens once you know that this awkward chamber is the "green room" of a small-city brothel. (That copy of Hustler on the floor is a hint. So is the picture's title.) That room may be empty...
When U.S. troops ousted Saddam Hussein a year ago, American officials and companies held certain assumptions about Iraq's prospects. With the dictator gone, businesses would reopen and drive an economic boom with their newfound freedoms. Traders would pile across the six borders, selling goods to consumers denied foreign items during 13 years of sanctions. Entrepreneurs would scramble for reconstruction contracts worth billions. Investment would pour in from millions of Iraqi exiles--including hundreds of thousands...