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With U.S. forces trying to close in on Saddam Hussein and a new Iraqi governing council trying to assert its authority, armed insurgents are expanding the scope of their attacks to sow fear among ordinary Iraqis and discourage them from cooperating with the U.S. The targeting of civilians escalated to terrifying new heights last Thursday, when at least eight and as many as 19 people were killed and more than 50 injured in a car bombing of the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad--the deadliest incident of any kind since the fall of Saddam's regime. Though senior intelligence officials...
...only vague answers. "There was no way to see the true picture," she says. Some of these ambiguities and discrepancies are supposed to disappear over the next two years as European companies switch to new international accounting standards that are closer to the U.S. rules. But the changeover could sow more confusion. At Bouygues, a French construction and telecommunications company, for example, finance chief Olivier Poupart-Lafarge says he expects managers will return to using two sets of books: one for external investors and regulators who use the new standards, and another for internal use by managers who prefer...
...Before they were ejected from their mountain stronghold, Rahim and his men had apparently received a new terrorist directive: to sow as much fear as possible by setting off bombs around Afghanistan's cities. For now, that plan may have been foiled. But the message of the past week is disturbingly clear: Afghanistan is still a deadly battleground, and America's Taliban and al-Qaeda enemies are ready to fight...
...wetland she had once labored to destroy has returned to water; where her old house once stood, her son has floated a huge cage to raise fish. Migratory birds, such as rare swans and spoonbills, have returned to the area. WWF lent Hu enough money to buy a sow, which will give birth in three weeks. Her new ash-colored cement house is hardly palatial?there's a gaping hole where the front door should be because the family ran out of money to finish building. But for the first time in her life, Hu says, "I'm not afraid...
...Jerry Lee wasn't the only rock star to endure or sow tragedy. Elvis's twin brother died at birth; Berry was convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old (not his wife) and served three years in jail; Orbison married the 15-year-old Claudette Frady, who died 11 years later in a motorcycle crash. But Jerry Lee had such a run of misfortune that the frequency and enormity of the misfortunes begin to seem ... unseemly...