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...such coups have been attempted in the past decade, and all have failed miserably. With internal intelligence and security services at his disposal, Saddam has recently stepped up the pace of military purges, shifting around or simply executing any popular, effective officer who posed a potential threat. That leaves classic warfare as the only real alternative to a proxy...
Resuscitated from the graveyard, the Crimson now face the daunting task of beating the two-time defending Ivy champions without their ace. Yet Wednesday’s classic shows that Harvard has the ability to find improbable ways...
DIED. LINDA BOREMAN, 53, ex-pornography star best known by her former moniker, Linda Lovelace; of injuries from an April 3 car accident; in Denver. As the star of 1972's classic Deep Throat, a feature-length film that played in mainstream theaters and made some $600 million, Boreman rose to fame in the '70s. After publishing Ordeal, her 1980 autobiography--in which she charged that her abusive first husband forced her to take the role and that she made no money from it--she became a vocal antiporn advocate...
Person of the Week THE NEW, NEW BUST He built one of the world's biggest long-distance carriers the old-fashioned way?gobbling up all the companies he could. But when classic overreaching killed Worldcom's stock price, ex-CEO Bernard Ebbers was left owing more than $366 million in loans to his own company...
...dead. "They told me they wanted to destroy all trace of the government and anything outside the party," says Khada. "They told me they wanted to break everything down and then rebuild from chaos with their own Maoist cadres." Adds a Western diplomat in Kathmandu: "It's classic Year Zero. Kill or drive away anybody who could possibly be considered an enemy, break down all state and social fabric and replace it with fear.In the end the party is the only thing left." The former rebel commander?now hiding out in the capital after deserting in disgust over...