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Iraq remains a very dangerous place. Since May 1, when Bush stood on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln near a banner reading MISSION ACCOMPLISHED and said that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended," 74 members of coalition forces have died, 64 of them American. In addition to the Britons killed last week, a U.S. Marine died at Hillah when his armored vehicle rolled over as it rushed to reinforce a group of ambushed Marines, and a soldier was killed when a bomb exploded near his vehicle on the road to Baghdad airport. In Najaf, a soldier...
...Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, the fourth-most-wanted man in Iraq, had a panorama on a life come undone. To the south he could make out the sprawling family farmlands where he used to spend weekends with his boss and cousin, Saddam Hussein. A few miles up the road stood the ex-regime's garish presidential palaces, now occupied by soldiers of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division. And to the north Mahmud could survey the open desert plains just beyond the city and ponder how to make a great escape...
...book contains photographs of dos and don'ts (as in the harlequin number at left), punctuated by cheeky Briticisms. Divided into chapters with such labels as "Big Boobs," "Big Arms" and "Saddlebags," the book instructs readers how to clothe themselves successfully, without flashing figure faults. Any woman who has stood tortured before a department-store mirror will be grateful. --By Andrea Sachs
...each party needs his or her own lawyer. Felder says the agreement should be signed before the hall is rented or the invitations are sent out. If it's done too close to the wedding date, pressure on a spouse to sign (rather than face the humiliation of being stood up at the altar) could be enough to have the agreement thrown out in court. --By Jean Chatzky and Jonah Freedman
...handful of Cambridge Police Department officers stood around the protest and urged passers-by to keep moving...