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...member of the ruling Baath Party elite, Numan apparently never lost faith in the regimes mission. Receiving a friend in his tony villa near the Tigris less than two weeks before the start of the war, Numan appeared relaxed and confident. Inviting a guest into a living room decorated with pictures of himself posed with Saddam - Numan, wearing a long Arab robe, reportedly said, "The Americans can bomb, but they'll never be able to handle street-to-street fighting. And even if Iraq suffers casualties, the Americans could loose 300 or 400 soldiers and they'll just have...
...least three continents are already using a-Sahhaf in their marketing. The Northlands Park racecourse in Alberta, Canada, recently ran an ad suggesting the Information Minister would make a good race commentator since "a little inaccuracy [makes] a race more exciting"; in Kuwait City, the designer boutique Villa Moda is giving away promotional T shirts that bear a picture of al - Sahhaf and the slogan "We even control fashion"; and low - cost airline Ryanair produced an advertisement suggesting that the "lowest fares" claims of its rival easyJet may be as valid as al - Sahhaf's pronouncements. Under other circumstances...
...leader in Angola, where Elf was negotiating important contracts. Listening intently in the wood-paneled courtroom of the Paris Tribunal last week, Judge Michel Desplan had some questions. If this $2 million was for Savimbi, how come Verwaerde had allegedly used about $300,000 of it to build a villa for himself on Ibiza? And why did his wife have power of attorney over the account? Verwaerde didn't miss a beat. He claimed that Savimbi himself had said he could dip into the money. As for his wife, "she was usually the one who picked up the telephone when...
...twisted horns. A self-described "fine family's son gone bad," Cartier-Bresson grew up surrounded by art, and it has always been his first love. His father kept a sketchbook and his uncle Louis was a painter who studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Villa Médicis. His wealthy Parisian thread-manufacturing family lived in a grand bourgeois neighborhood near the Europe Bridge, famously painted by Gustave Caillebotte. The teenage Cartier-Bresson worked in the studio of society painter Jacques-Emile Blanche, and later studied with Cubist painter André Lhote, honing his geometrically precise...
Acting on a whim, Ingber responded to an open casting call publicized in the Boston Globe last fall. Soon, he had landed a ticket for an eight-day spring vacation to a beachfront Mexican villa along with fifteen other students. And in exchange for sunshine—an alluring option for any Massachusetts resident—Ingber agreed to have his life filmed 24 hours a day for the duration of the trip. The creators of MTV’s The Real World and Road Rule auditioned 10,000 students from around the country, whittling 500 hours of film footage...