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...Mean Streets BRAZIL A series of coordinated attacks in S?o Paulo left six homeless people dead and nine others hospitalized. All 15 were beaten with metal piping as they slept on downtown pavements. Police believe the attacks were carried out by a member of a hate group seeking to rid the streets of unwanted elements. The assaults evoked dark memories of a similar case in Rio de Janeiro in 1993 in which off-duty policemen shot dead eight street children...
...revealed that a warrant had been issued for his arrest on murder charges, he sent his fighters into the streets of Najaf and Sadr City for two months. He eventually accepted a favorable truce in June that relegated U.S. forces to bases outside the city and did nothing to rid the place of anti-American rebels. U.S. military commanders complained that the political deal simply gave him breathing room to rebuild his battered forces and consolidate himself as the chief Shi'ite resistance leader. There was a growing sense at the Pentagon that such a strategy had only delayed...
...also very intimidated by the leading actor, Rex Harrison. I learned later that Rex had said to our director, Moss Hart, "You either get rid of that kid, or I go," but I didn't know that at the time. Rex was nervous for a very different reason: he had never sung before and didn't think he could. The orchestra was very daunting for him, and so he demanded the most enormous amount of time. I felt left out of the loop. The miracle was that Moss must have seen something in me when I didn...
...conference to pick 100 members of a temporary national assembly, which would give some public input to the governing of Iraq before a parliament can be elected next year. Abu Tbikh was determined to participate and make his voice heard. "We believed it would be the solution to getting rid of the U.S. puppet government," he said. But when his local caucus convened in Najaf to pick delegates for the Baghdad conference, Abu Tbikh encountered nothing but frustration. First he learned that the former Governing Council had reserved 20 seats for itself in the new assembly. Then he was told...
...like the Masai people of East Africa. The shoes have a curved sole that forces you to use muscles you probably didn't know you had. The uneven sole means you have to actively balance, which helps your posture and works your legs and abdominals. They might not get rid of your orange-peel skin, but they will tone your legs and backside...