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A free Iraq in a prosperous Arab world is in everyone's interest, and unseating Saddam would be a good start down that road. It's what follows that's tricky. The lesson of history is that reforms succeed best if they well up from within a nation, not when...
Max had splendid adventures in the service of the British Empire everywhere from central Africa to the South China Sea, but he always had warm memories of his years in Iraq, though this may be because he learned the noble sport of pigsticking there (we've got pictures of that...
What's different now? The '90s presented a mixed picture of teen sexual health. There was a solid 20% decline in the teen birth rate, and according to a CDC report released last week, sexual activity decreased 15%. But the incidence of certain sexually transmitted diseases rose among adolescents. A...
Gary Winnick, the flamboyant chairman of Global Crossing, is expected to be the next embattled executive to take the Fifth Amendment on Capitol Hill, when he appears this week before Representative Billy Tauzin's House Energy and Commerce Committee. "We want to know what Mr. Winnick knew about the shaky...
One of the hot tickets at the New York Film Festival last week was Ten, a deceptively simple movie about an Iranian woman and her car. Its two screenings sold out immediately, says festival director Richard Peña. But one key invitee wasn't able to make it - the...