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Several days after Iraq invaded Kuwait, a clandestine radio station passed word that a satellite would pass over Kuwait City at midnight and snap photographs. The message instructed citizens to go to their roofs to demonstrate their opposition to Saddam Hussein. As improbable as that scenario might sound, thousands of Kuwaitis climbed to the tops of buildings at midnight and unfurled huge banners in Arabic and English -- the letters three feet high -- reading KUWAIT FOR US, NOT FOR THE IRAQIS! and WE DIE AND KUWAIT LIVES! Despite the bursts from automatic weapons fired into the air by nervous Iraqi soldiers...
Perhaps Bradlee's greatest innovation was the Post's Style section, which led papers around the U.S. to drop their dowdy women's sections and mimic the biting profiles and flashy features by Sally Quinn, now Bradlee's wife. But the section that was once all snap and vinegar has gone flat under Downie. A profile of Senate majority leader George Mitchell, one of the Democratic Party's harshest critics of President Bush, devoted only a sparse paragraph to his romance with Janet Mullins, a senior Bush Administration official. Laments a Post reporter: "The old Style would have published...
Stress takes its toll on civility. A brutal assault by the Burmese troops that September left 40 Burmese and two Karens dead and made something in Major Than Maung snap. A few days later, a journalist visited Komura and found the major resting quietly in his bunker, surrounded by dozens of skulls mounted on stakes and planted in tidy rows. When a young Karen soldier playfully stuck a cheroot in the grinning teeth of one skull, the major chased him away. Then he grew quiet again and didn't want to be disturbed...
Friday at 2 p.m., the Yale women's tennis team invades Bern Tennis Center for a showdown between last year's Ivy co-champs. Last year, the Elis upset the Crimson, 5-4, to snap Harvard's 45-game Ivy winning steak, dating back from the 1982-83 season...
...Achilles tendon hurt me from the beginning," Hussein said, "and halfway up the hill [Heartbreak Hill], I thought I heard it snap...