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...north and west of Baghdad, including Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. Instead, Iraqi fighters loyal to Saddam left Baghdad and went home, where, motivated by nationalism and tribal loyalties, they could regroup and plan attacks on American forces. It was not until June--in Operations Desert Scorpion and Peninsula Strike--that the fight was taken to them. One battle, for the town of Dululiyah, north of Baghdad, involved 4,000 U.S. soldiers...
...will have achieved four big reforms by our first two-and-a-half years in office: pensions, health insurance, decentralization and education. All that plus the little reforms, such as the fact that for the first time we didn't pay public service workers for days they were on strike. That's a real novelty in France. That's the kind of change that alters the way people behave. We made the law on the 35-hour week more flexible by exempting from it all businesses with fewer than 20 employees. But your party has always denounced the 35-hour...
Died. Robert Palmer, 54, natty Brit-rock eminence of the '80s; of a heart attack; in Paris. In his crisp, sexy videos for Addicted to Love and Simply Irresistible, leggy ladies would strike a pose as a fuzzy bass line growled under Palmer's knowing vocals. And there stood the star in jacket and tie, like an investment banker unwinding on karaoke night. He would rather be remembered for adapting a world of musical styles to the R. and B. he grew up loving. But for a legion of fans, Palmer will always fit his own ironic self-description...
...While some officers pointed their guns at driver Jing Aiguo's temple, others retrieved from the back seat of the car nine plastic sacks containing three kilos of heroin. Jing had never run afoul of the law before, but the police?then engaged in one of China's periodic "Strike Hard" crime crackdowns?quickly obtained his confession. After a one-hour trial, the judge announced his sentence: death...
Jackson was arrested on the sixth day of the strike with over a dozen other union supporters for disorderly conduct when they obstructed traffic at an intersection in protest...