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...clinic, where they warned doctors not to report a rape. Furious, the father demanded to see Saddam himself. Rebuffed, he kept complaining publicly about what Uday had done. After three months, the President's son had had enough. He sent two guards to the man to insist that he drop the matter. Uday had another demand: that the ex-governor bring his daughter and her 12-year-old sister to his next party. "Your daughters will be my girlfriends, or I'll wipe you off the face of the earth." The man complied, surrendering both girls...
Uday was no less demanding at his parties. He was an expert at filling a highball glass to the top, without spilling a drop. Then he would force his mates to down an entire glass of liquor. When Uday was in the hospital after being shot, he called his friends in to cheer him up. Since he couldn't drink, he forced them to consume obscene quantities of alcohol, installing a stomach-pumping station in the next room for emergencies, says a friend. At the Boat Club, Uday kept a monkey named Louisa in a cage in the kitchen. Louisa...
Offsetting these increases is a 1.7% drop in prices for goods like cars, clothing and computers, which account for 23% of spending. Through productivity gains at home and cheap labor abroad, manufacturers have kept prices low. That's something a dentist or restaurant owner, with less flexible rent and labor costs, can't easily do. Food and energy prices (the remaining 21% of spending) have been rising (energy sharply) over the past few months but are expected to fall later this year. If you include them, the overall CPI was up 2.2% in April...
...military dictatorships, such as Burma. "The village will be surrounded and given a warning so women, children and the elderly can leave first," explains General Sudi Silalhi, chief adviser to Indonesia's chief security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. "Then they will give another warning to those with arms to drop their weapons and come out. Then, if there are still some left in the village, we will go into the homes and conduct sweepings." This means anyone left in the villages is liable to be shot on sight as a presumed rebel...
...hospital administrators may have learned their lesson?that SARS is not a disease that responds to complacence or concealment. The trouble is, there can be a heavy financial price to pay for honesty. "Administrators don't want to admit they have SARS patients because it will mean a dramatic drop in patients coming to their hospital," says Michael Tai, head of the department of social medicine at the Chungshan Medical University in Tai-chung, "and that means they will lose money." Still, "other hospitals won't dare to buck the system now," says epidemiologist Ho Mei-shang, who has been...