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...faced U.N. sanctions designed to control all of Iraq's foreign trade. In response, he has demonstrated a genius for milking cash from the very system meant to squeeze him dry. He has set up a network--call it Saddam Inc.--that involves smuggling, kickbacks and other scams that rack up steady profits year after year...
...minutes past happy hour in this smoky Guangdong snooker hall, and the lonely have congregated to shoot another night away. Every night at seven a downcast man claims a table for himself to rack and break and pocket balls in meditative solitude until closing time. Occasionally, he glances over at the yellow-haired man who nightly commands a table next to him. Tonight, the magical geometry of ball to pocket is off, so the Chinese man diverts himself by ambling toward the equally lonely-looking foreigner. "Hello," he says in his best English. "I am Mister Wang...
...Grammy acceptance podium. Brown took home the 2001 “Best Country Instrumental” award for her song “Leaving Cottondale.” Brown’s mom even chose her daughter’s dress, a strapless number she found on the clearance rack at Sak?...
...that American kids are clueless. They've been exposed to Japanese animation, or anim?, for years?thanks to the success of manga-based TV cartoons like Pok?mon and Dragon Ball, and the movies of Hayao Miyazaki. Yet no one thought manga would fly off the magazine rack...
...tiny Himalayan kingdom, the road may be better acquainted with cattle than automobiles. At dawn and long after dusk, its rutted asphalt rings with the chatter of schoolchildren traveling hours by foot for their daily lessons. By noon, the highway is a playground for rambunctious monkeys, a drying rack for chilies, and?by the grace of an occasional car or truck?an ingenious tool for flattening bamboo. Waters from holy streams course alongside it, and towering stands of prayer flags cover it with a tracery of spiny shadows in the low light of early evening...