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...like Saddam Hussein, is arrayed against the separatist Kurds of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Kurdestan Democratic Party (KDP), whose ragtag forces lie between it and Baghdad. Ansar hates all infidels, but mainly the ones in its neighborhood. "If they could get to Americans, they would spare no effort to do so," says a senior Kurdish intelligence official, "but since they cannot, they are happy to kill us instead...
After graduating, Berkeley spent a year working as a travel writer in Santa Fe for Outside magazine. In his spare time, he managed a Harvard/Vermont band, the Humming, which he said gave him a good introduction to the music business. And after a year as a teacher in New York City, Berkeley has devoted himself to making music full time...
...spare moments, Phenom occasionally finds her thoughts slipping to the past. This time last year, De-Shawto was employed in housekeeping at a motel; she had her full-time pizza job. On her way to work, she would often stop for a cappuccino to go, a little indulgence that she sorely misses. "The ones at the Exxon station are the best," she says wistfully. She has not had one in months...
...wiggle out. Since November, the Iraqis have avoided handing the inspectors any clear provocations, while revealing almost nothing, in an effort to string out the inspections, peel allies away from Washington and scuttle any U.S. attempt to win Security Council approval for force. But that alone will not spare Saddam, since the Administration has never believed that it needed another U.N. vote to strike Iraq...
...next few years were a crazy quilt of college classes and part-time jobs from which Peter was invariably fired for erratic performance. He moved constantly, and his parents paid his overdue rent more than once to spare him from being evicted. Finally, during Christmas break in 1990, Peter's brother, James, confronted his parents and strongly suggested that Peter get a psychiatric evaluation. They were, James recalls, initially indignant--no doubt remembering the horrific treatment Emma Beale had suffered. But a few months later, the Beales brought Peter to a local hospital, where he signed himself into the psychiatric...