Word: ridding
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...been the exception. In both instances, their populations were under no illusions that their own leaders had started disastrous wars. Elsewhere, however, the occupier's presumption of virtue is seldom affirmed by the occupied. And Iraq has proved no different. However extensive the goodwill toward the Americans for getting rid of Saddam, it has steadily eroded over the past year. The prison abuse photographs outraged Iraqis, but may not have surprised them as much as the Americans. Nor are Iraqis impressed by the Bush administration's explanation that these were the actions of a few bad apples. Which...
Forget Extreme Makeover. Look what a haircut and a shave will do. TOM SELLECK got rid of his famous mustache and almost all of his hair to play General Dwight Eisenhower in A&E's biopic Ike: Countdown to D-Day, about the 90 days leading up to the Allies' invasion of Normandy. "I didn't want to screw it up," says Selleck, who also prepared for the role by talking with Eisenhower's son and learning an appropriate President-to-be's voice. So what does he think of TV these days? Selleck refers to a gig he once...
...Daily Mirror, which appeared to show, among other things, an Iraqi prisoner being beaten and urinated upon by his British army captors. The scenes drew horror and condemnation in a country in which the military usually prides itself on its crisp professionalism. "We went to Iraq to get rid of that type of thing," said Prime Minister Tony Blair...
...member of the Harvard University Security, Parking and Museum Guards Union (HUSPMGU). “If I had known they were negotiating something like this, I would have asked them to negotiate for more insurance, more money, so I could get by. [The union] was helping Harvard get rid...
...It’s confidential when you’re bargaining for members for a contract,” he said. “But they were bargaining to get rid of members’ jobs. [The workers] should have been asked what they were looking for. When you negotiate a contract, you go to your members and ask them what they want...