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...After signing the truce, Mohammed had become a hero in South Waziristan. DVDs of him appeared in the bazaars, showing him presenting a rusty sword to Pakistani officers during the cease-fire ceremony, his only compliance with his promise to disarm. Mohammed rumbled around in a pickup truck mounted with a machine gun and appeared in public with a brace of Chechen and Arab bodyguards, on loan from al-Qaeda, say tribesmen. Two weeks ago, Mohammed took a second bride, a teenager...
Within days of the death in late May of Umberto Agnelli, the patriarch of one of Italy's leading business families, Giuseppe Morchio made his move. As mourners continued to pay their last respects, the chief executive of the Fiat auto and truck company that is the core of the Agnelli family fortune demanded to be given Umberto's title of chairman as well...
...used to buying swordfish meat from the local fish market, and fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers came from the back of a truck that was parked on the cobblestone street. I would take the meat and vegetables home, then help my uncle grill them on an outdoor grill,” she says. “My duties quickly spilled over into the kitchen...
...with new drivers. It infuriates Stephen Heering, 33, sitting in the safety of his home north of Houston in the town of Magnolia. Heering, a driver, needed to pay bills and save for his son's college education. He lasted just 4 1/2 months--until Iraqi insurgents bombed his truck and nearly killed him at gunpoint. "KBR said it would get better, but people started getting hurt bad," he says. "They'll find new meat. I guess that's the way it is in the money world. If it makes 'em money, they don't care if it costs them...
...father-in-law in construction. His past-due bills are paid, but there's nothing for college. Although he is angry and anxious, Heering hasn't called about counseling. Come fall, he plans to vote for George Bush, but he has harsh words for KBR. "If they send a truck on the road now," he says, "it's murder...