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Caffeine factor: Gets rid of headaches, provides a nice wake-up—why did my Mom always say Coke...
...True, Iraqi Shiites are gratified that the U.S. got rid of Saddam. Yet there is no evidence that a majority of Iraqi Shiites hold different views from Arabs throughout the Middle East who bitterly criticize American support for Israel against the Palestinians. Before recent events, they were also angry toward the U.S. for once supporting Saddam's regime, and for standing back while Saddam slaughtered thousands of Shiites who responded to Bush the Elder's call to rise up during Gulf...
Brilliant will stick around to see the outcome, even now that Weis has taken over the CEO role. "I'm on the board of directors," Brilliant says. "They can't get rid of me." After all, there's still one more mountain to climb. --With reporting by Leslie Berestein/Los Angeles, Joshua Macht/New York, Laura A. Locke/San Francisco and Donald Macintyre/Seoul
...friends and we expect them to give us democracy and security, to rebuild us and not destroy us." He said the Americans have come twice to his tent and he likes what he hears. "I have the idea that they have pure intentions, they just want to get rid of Saddam Hussein and establish security here...
...forces build up around the city, quick-reaction strikes could be supplanted by a more methodical combing of the area by U.S. ground troops. The city will be "sliced like a pizza," a Defense official says, into sectors that will be studied, cleared, probed and ultimately rid of Iraqi forces. The idea is that as U.S. units secure more and more territory, the regime's leaders would be pushed into an ever shrinking area. At the same time, the U.S. would seize control of city services like water, electricity and communications...