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That was how it ended for Adel al-Zubaidi on a sunny afternoon in early November. The attorney defending Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti and former Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan was heading home from work with a colleague when two Opel sedans and two orange-and-white taxis boxed in his car on the busy main street of his neighborhood. Two men wearing jeans got out firing Russian-made PKC heavy machine guns, riddling the red Proton sedan with bullets, says al-Zubaidi's son-in-law, who arrived on the scene 10 minutes after...
...gradual influence of Western art on Chinese painting - mainly Castiglione's introduction of light and shadow, focal point and perspective. The Jesuits brought art and science to the Qing court, but didn't make many converts. The curators have brilliantly juxtaposed many of the items in the show. A sedan chair used by Qianlong is placed before an enormous painting, Imperial Banquet in the Garden of Ten Thousand Trees, in which a similar chair, borne by 16 eunuchs, ferries Qianlong to a celebration with Torghut Mongols who kneel before him. A circle framing the portrait of Qianlong writing calligraphy...
...Zubeidi was killed Tuesday, driving near his home on the main street of al-Adil neighborhood in western Baghdad. Fellow defense attorney Thamer Hamoud al Khuzaie had been riding with al-Zubeidi and was wounded when four gunmen emerged from a gray Opel and riddled their red Proton sedan with bullets. Police and U.S. troops arrived at the scene and took the injured al-Khuzaie to an American hospital in Baghdad...
...good firms” that has a minority recruitment program and doesn’t kill arctic seals. But at the end of the day, most of us are going to be walking out of the air-conditioned office, zipping home in the chic sedan, living comfortably while others in this country struggle to put dinner on the table. I don’t care if you vote Democrat. Many of us do about as much good as most Northerners did when they waited for a civil war to threaten their way of life before demanding...
...HYBRID. An SUV will glug $1,831 on average at the pump this year, and a sedan will ring up $1,453, according to the Alliance to Save Energy. Meanwhile, a hybrid will swallow as little as $589--not to mention that tax break of up to $3,000 included in last summer's energy bill for buying...