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...real-estate agent. The newcomers tend to stay near the University of Jordan or downtown, where a room for the night costs less than a cappuccino at the Mecca Mall. "A hundred dollars doesn't go far here like it does in Baghdad," says Jamal. That only makes the sight of the former Baathists harder to bear. Few of the new-wave Iraqis would dare confront their former oppressors; most confine their defiance to hostile stares. Sometimes anger boils over into action. According to reports, Raghad's encounter with a fellow exile turned nasty after she asked the woman...
...fresh and delicious. If the villagers are right, Russia's most-wanted man is hiding only a few kilometers away. Perhaps in the hamlet of Dargo, about 10 km to the east; or in Ersanoi, just up the road; or even right here in Dyshne-Vedeno itself, within sight of the ruins of his once sumptuous red-brick house, blown up by the Russians in 2000. The Kremlin says it has launched a massive manhunt for Basayev, the Chechen guerrilla leader who has orchestrated a grisly terror campaign that includes, among other atrocities, hijackings, suicide bombings, the 2002 Moscow theater...
...Chavez never lost sight of his future, as many of his teammates did. Always a stellar student, he knew his academic career would continue somewhere—maybe not necessarily Harvard, but somewhere—when the lights were turned...
Football and vomiting are not as unrelated as they might seem. In Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday, for example, Jamie Foxx’s character throws up on the field when he sees the enormity of the crowd. Nevertheless, the sight of a player vomiting in an actual game—especially in the middle of a play—came as a surprise, though Tully is confident that dehydration and the recent hit were to blame, rather than nerves...
...combines the humor and look of early Disney movies with the scope of the Lord of the Rings cycle. A former animator, Smith draws characters that are both cute and scary, and he infuses every panel with dynamic energy. While children will read Bone for its breathless adventure and sight gags, older kids and adults will appreciate the themes of blind fanaticism and corrupting power. You might want to bone up on it. --By Andrew Arnold