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...been a bad week for the Bush administration's anti-Saddam campaign. And that's not because of the Iraqi dictator's florid warning that any U.S. invasion would end in "disgraceful failure." The problem is that Saddam has also made plain his plan to take advantage of Washington's comparative isolation over going war in Iraq by playing hard for the middle ground. The Iraqi leader's speech reiterated offers to negotiate over arms inspections - albeit on his own terms, which so far remain unacceptable to the U.N. But the Iraqi leader knows he can always adjust his position...
...years he toiled on this autobiography. Together they represent the twin peaks of his career. And he would have you believe that his fetishizing of the "female form divine" is an act of veneration. Throughout "A clean BREAST!" are dozens of photos of topless gals, their heads encased in plain paper bags. The most brazen sexism, eh? No, insists the author. "These shrouded women are a tented testament to the mystery that veils all womanhood and it is that mystery that Meyer has spent a lifetime trying to uncover...
...elsewhere. Like nearly all the big European operators, they paid a lot for 3G because they expected a lot: tapping into higher bandwidth, 3G mobiles were supposed to offer everything from high-speed Internet access to streaming video, allowing telecoms to keep revenues flowing even after the market for plain old phone calls became saturated. But the technology has been slow to develop, and operators have lost investor support for their once-lavish spending. It's a measure of how few people believe in the 3G dream anymore that beaten-down telecom shares rose sharply the day Telefónica...
...receptive to differences in texture, consistency and temperature," says Unsicht-Bar manager and founder Axel Rudolph, 46, who opened the eatery in May 2001. "It's a holistic experience." As taste buds work overtime to discover fresh nuances in well-known flavors, even simple, everyday foods like potatoes or plain yogurt morph into nouvelle cuisine...
...ordinary hospital. On the day of my interview, I offered my bag for searching, but Bob Poole, the administrator who greeted me, declined to look. He escorted me around a metal detector. I expected there would be a partition between Yoder and me, but Poole took me into a plain visitors' room, where Yoder stood unshackled...