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When President George W. Bush gave Saddam Hussein and his two sons 48 hours to leave Iraq last week, Uday, the firstborn, delivered the family's riposte. Iraqi forces, he warned, would make the mothers of U.S. soldiers "weep blood instead of tears." The tall, bearded Uday, 39, has long been a braggart--not to mention a libertine and a brute. He squandered his inherited power to sate a boundless avarice, smuggling everything from booze to baby milk to oil. His avocational sadism and sexual deviance are the stuff of Iraqi legend. "In his eyes," recalls a former colleague...
...weekend brunch, the easy elegance of Marmalade Pantry at Palais Renaissance on 390 Orchard Road, tel: (65) 6734 2700, has quickly become the de rigueur meeting place for ladies who prefer to lunch on 15-centimeter-tall chicken potpies and sip on apple-mango-ginger juice combos called spunkys...
...bludgeon people to death any more. No one objects now to women flying fighters, bombers, and attack helicopters. They seem to object to hand-to-hand combat. Personally, I've never met a woman who wanted to be in the infantry. But if they're big and strong and tall, and they want to do it, they'll end up there. Gender should not be a discriminator in combat roles...
...loyal forces to defend Baghdad and other key cities, Saddam's priority would be to avoid collapse in the face of U.S. bombing. That requires not only demonstrating that he has survived the initial onslaught, but also that at least some of his units are resisting the invasion - a tall order, perhaps, the face of the overwhelming air and ground assault planned by the U.S and its allies, but coalition commanders certainly have reason to hope the regime won't last long enough to force a fight for the capital...
...science fiction was a tragic figure with a chaotic personal life and a pan-galactic case of writer's block. "I love deadlines," Adams once said. "I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." Adams learned to avoid reality around age 5, when his parents divorced. Tall, shy and unathletic, he longed to be John Cleese, star of the Monty Python troupe. Adams had the height (hitting his full 1.91 m as a teen) and a taste for clowning. So when he went off to Cambridge he gravitated, as his hero had a dozen years earlier...