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Saddam has always been obsessed with building. The Pharaonic size of his enterprises--vast palaces, gigantic mosques, even the idea of an atom bomb--reflect his self-image as history's hero. He never forgets he was born in Tikrit, home nine centuries ago to the great Saladin, the Islamic victor in the Crusades. Saddam's latest Baghdad palace features columns topped with huge replicas of his own head bearing Saladin's helmet. He shaped the minarets on the grand new Mother of All Battles mosque to resemble the Scud missiles he fired at Israel during the Gulf War. These...
...that I don't understand a lot of what goes on in this industry." What he did perceive was that his networks had to keep getting bigger to achieve economies of scale. By 1995, LDDS counted many of America's largest corporations as customers for its vast voice and data network and, after buying IDB, grandly renamed itself WorldCom. It then acquired UUNET, one of the world's largest Internet hookup firms, along with AOL's Internet networking division. Ebbers then brashly outbid British Telecom to grab MCI, using as currency his WorldCom stock, whose value skyrocketed 7,000% during...
...latest population changes. To most of us outside of government, it's a boring, confusing mess of endlessly twisting lines running through neighborhoods on a map. To politicians, it's a cage match to the death, complete with court hearings. The political and legal complexities of redistricting are vast, but most politicians have a simple goal - to protect their own seat and, if possible, try to guarantee their party a majority...
...hope for her country's future either. She points to the vast construction site nearby, where Saddam is building the grandiose multidomed Mosque No. 2, bigger than the Mother of All Battles Mosque finished last year but not as grand as No. 3, expected to be completed in 2010, which Saddam claims will be the biggest in the Arab world. The fiercely secular leader has lately switched his building mania from palaces to mosques to co-opt the country's growing religious mood...
...workers take part in Monsanto's Retiree Resource Corps, which encourages them--former managers, tax lawyers and secretaries--to return to plug temporary staffing gaps for as much as 1,000 hours a year (the maximum allowed without jeopardizing retirement benefits). In the process, they pass on their vast institutional memory...