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...Rose Revolution" transformed the country into a democracy. Bush hopes that in 10 or 15 years he may be the white-haired dignitary who stands on a similar stage, on an equally cloudless day, in Baghdad. There his successor will tell the story of the day when Saddam's statue, fell marking the start of that country's purple revolution...
...commodity the Yarmouk Hospital has in abundance is doctors. A medical college next door supplies a steady stream of residents. Many of the best doctors fled Iraq before and after the war, but the demobilization of Saddam Hussein's army has left the country with a surplus of military surgeons, who are grateful for a hospital job that pays $350 a month. Their experience in battlefield medicine gives them the ability both to manage expectations and to improvise. "If a patient leaves the ER still breathing and not bleeding, then I would say we have done our job," says Qais...
...Shame is for sissies," specialized in improving the public image of despots; of an apparent suicide; in Rome. Always flamboyant?he added the "Von" to his name and regularly appeared at formal events in a black cape?his clients included Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, Laurent Kabila of Congo and Saddam Hussein...
...food scandal is about to get nastier and more personal. Sources tell TIME that the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Minnesota's Norm Coleman, will soon make public the names of prominent individuals from several countries who received lucrative and oh-so-illegal oil contracts from Saddam Hussein in violation of the U.N. program designed to keep the Iraqi people from starving while depriving their dictator of cash. Although the names of scores of rumored recipients have been circulating for more than a year, this week the subcommittee is expected to begin releasing voluminous details...
...wholesale purge, recognizing that most Sunnis with the competence to play executive roles and the credibility to represent their community are likely to have had some involvement in the old regime - and that as distasteful as it may be to the Shiites and Kurds who suffered most under Saddam's reign of terror, precluding all former Baathists from power would play into the hands of the insurgency by deepening Sunni alienation from the new regime...