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Rumsfeld continues to shift troops around as nations fall in and out of the coalition against Saddam. U.S. diplomats worked overtime last week trying to win basing rights for 15,000 troops in Turkey, and they remain optimistic that Saudi Arabia will join Kuwait in allowing U.S. troops to stage from its soil. Rumsfeld also is making an ever growing list of things that could go wrong in a war with Iraq--and peppering his officers to anticipate them. "He has an unsettling tendency to do that," an associate says. As Rumsfeld put it recently, "I'm never satisfied...
...member, who recently remarked: "Younger ministers than I will soon learn that this is no woman to be trifled with." The British monarch's sole governmental duty is only "to advise, to encourage and to warn," but that can nevertheless be a vital and important duty. At this stage, Elizabeth for the most part spends her time attempting to learn what she can from her wise first minister, and asking, "How will this affect the average housewife?" In some cases, Elizabeth is empowered to enforce her warning. No minister, for instance, may leave the country without her consent...
...someone says I want a car on stage, for a second you freeze, but then you start thinking of how you can make that happen,” he said, referring to a situation he encountered while producing “Knock,” a French comedy...
...kingpin Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Their British colleague faced a similar fate. Two Italian women taken four weeks ago were also reportedly executed, though Rome would not confirm the claims. Ten employees of an Iraqi cell-phone company were abducted in Baghdad and Fallujah. That rebels could so easily stage such brazen attacks has left many observers questioning whether the U.S. can possibly bring sanity--to say nothing of stability--to the country it has inherited...
...people who haven’t seen dance before,” says Chan of the genre’s approachability. “It’s not based strictly on technique. It involves a lot of aesthetics in terms of how people are placed on the stage and how people are moving to the music.” Despite the difficulty of being a small, creative force in a large, professional venue, HRDC does not shy away from performing. “What we do does not end in the studio,” Todorova says...