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...those seeking omens on Saddam Hussein's day of judgment, Mother Nature obliged: Sunday dawned wet, cool and clean in Baghdad after overnight showers rinsed the city of several layers of desert sand. Late in the morning, Ahmed Hussein, a government-employed street sweeper, looked up into the overcast and still-rumbling skies and nodded approvingly. "This is the right weather for a day like this," he said. "The rain is God's blessing upon the verdict...
...remarkable respect for the human mind.”Friends and colleagues describe Stone as “egalitarian and non-elitist,” a man whose fresh outlook distinguished him from other academic figures.“You could’ve been a street sweeper or garbage collector and he would have been interested in you,” his brother, Stephen, says. He adds that his brother was incredibly outgoing and showed a “great concern for humanity and its problems,” recalling that Philip kept piles of letters from people expressing...
...theme of the Paris fall 2006 collections. Wave adieu to the frilly ladylike look and navel-baring sexuality of past seasons. At Givenchy, Riccardo Tisci put his bespectacled models into stiff dresses and opaque tights. At Rochas, the modest mood was reflected in Olivier Theyskens' skinny, chimney-sweeper-inspired pantsuits and monastic evening gowns. The color du jour: soot black...
...Siby came to France to work in 1968 and never left. He began as a Paris street sweeper, and ended up at a butcher shop. Since it went bankrupt seven years ago, he's become a kind of elder sage in Clichy-sous-Bois. He says there are many reasons why the young men in the neighborhood are disaffected and angry. Schools are often inadequate, jobs are scarce. But the big problem, Siby says, is housing. "These young guys need studio apartments. Instead they're in their twenties, still stuck in their parents' places with their little brothers and sisters...
...Install an anti-spyware program like Spyware Doctor or Spy Sweeper that not only seeks and destroys offending programs, but also detects incoming spyware before it loads and blocks it. If your PC starts acting funny, run a system scan and remove any suspicious files. If you are an active Internet user, set your anti-spyware program to do a full system scan at the end of each...