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...demonstrating how the mind can be fooled, it manages to touch the playgoer's heart. At the end - I've decided you're not going to London just because I recommend it, and if you are you can skip this paragraph - the mystery woman, whose name is either Lina or Julia (or neither), materializes, embracing her mother fervently, kissing her husband passionately. Her gestures take no sides in the dispute; she seems equally indulgent of the contradictory beliefs held by these two people who obsessively, perhaps quite madly, love...
...most startling thing, however, is encountering ordinary Iraqis. They are doing their best to enjoy themselves during the holy month of Ramadan, despite 12 years of harsh economic sanctions and fears of a coming war with the United States. "It's on our minds every day," smiles Lina Ibrahim, 26, an accountant I met while dining at Al Gouta, a fashionable restaurant by the Tigris river. "But life is good...
...nights later, Lina Ibrahim and her friends were even nicer. After inviting me to join them for iftar at Al Gouta, they proffered an endless supply of soft drinks and sweets. At the evening's end, Roua Ghassan, a 20-year-old medical student, handed me a ceramic key chain after stripping off her own keys, laughing, "We have to give you a souvenir of Iraq...
...monopoly over information to exploit such sentiments. Echoing official propaganda, Yasser Thamer, a 21-year-old engineering student, told me that he was convinced that the U.S. wanted to attack Iraq to control its oil. "Iraq has the biggest reserves in the world," Yasser said. When I asked Lina Ibrahim's younger sister, Zina, 21, a translator, how she could actually believe that President Bush actually was planning to bomb schools and hospitals and kill Iraqi civilians, she replied, "I read it in Babil" - the tabloid daily newspaper run by Saddam's son Uday...
...Reported by Matthew Cooper and Douglas C. Waller/Washington, Lina Lofaro/New York, Azadeh Moaveni/Doha and Amany Radwan/Cairo