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...Lightning Rod...
Uday's favorite punishment was the medieval falaqa, a rod with clamps that go around the ankles so that the offender, feet in the air, can be hit on the bare soles with a stick. A top official in radio and TV says he received so many beatings for trivial mistakes like being late for meetings or making grammatical errors on his broadcasts that Uday ordered him to carry a falaqa in his car. Uday also had an iron maiden that he used to torture Iraqi athletes whose performance disappointed...
...does so with the flamboyant iconoclasm that has long made him a lightning rod in French public life. His new book, Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, released in France to great fanfare at the end of last month, is his report on a year of remarkable research that took him from the urban wastelands of Karachi to Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, from London to Dubai and Bosnia, and from fact to a kind of fiction. In retracing Pearl's last steps - the story that got him killed - Lévy concludes that the reporter's kidnapping, decapitation and dismemberment...
...facts on the ground" they have created have been, at best, confusing. On the one hand, Chalabi's forces have helped the U.S. capture some leading Baathists, and maintain order in one or two towns. On the other hand, their presence has become a lightning rod for Iraqi opposition and hostility - "No, no Chalabi" has become a familiar chant at Shiite political rallies in different parts of the country...
...Secretary of Education Rod Paige made his case for school choice to a divided crowd of skeptics and supporters at the ARCO Forum last night...