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Saddam long ago learned how to keep power, no matter what the cost. It wasn't just ferocious ambition that drove him from shepherd to dictator by age 42. His Darwinian outlook took root among the clan machinations of his native Tikrit, during the years when Arab nationalism began to flower. Freud would have had a field day with Saddam's tortured relationships with his family, including, Post says, a suicidal mother who tried to abort him. Saddam's father died before he was born, and after his mother married a man who brutalized Saddam, the illiterate 10-year...
...children had already left for safer ground. The men were worried; they couldn't buy plastic for their windows because it got too expensive, and they didn't have tents. "No one is coming to help us, to give us tents, to provide us food," said Karim Hussein. Shepherd Abdul Rahman Yuni dismissed theories that the Iraqis were ready to give up. "They will fight. America creates these rumors that they will run away, but they will fight...
...price of obtaining drug coverage looks like political suicide to lawmakers of both parties, who for years have been promising seniors a comprehensive solution to the rising costs of prescriptions. It could be a deal-breaker, warns Finance Committee chairman Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican whose panel will shepherd the legislation through the Senate. The White House dismisses fears it won't be fully engaged; in the meantime, even G.O.P. health-care experts who advise Bush are skeptical that his proposal will get anywhere. Said one: "It's never going to happen." --By John F. Dickerson and Karen Tumulty
...helped shepherd the organization and the marathon through years of change and growth while striving to maintain the integrity of both the organization and its events. Mr. Cloney’s vision for the BAA Marathon was progressive in that he viewed it as a community-wide event which other marathons would come to emulate,” Guy Morse, the current BAA director, said in a written statement...
...shows flashes of the sweet creature he once was. We see, as Frodo does, that Gollum's devious, cringing present could be the hobbit's future. Though the crape of impending war hangs over Towers, it is vivid with mortal melodrama and some potent new characters. Treebeard, an Ent (shepherd of the woods) reluctantly drawn into the conflict, has the stately, smiling gravity of Bernard Shaw. And the digitized Gollum is wonderfully complex. At first a whiny Jar Jar Binks as he might be played by Klaus Kinski, Gollum soon reveals a complex pathos and a facility of expression...