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Saddam expected unconditional subservience from his inner circle. According to another oft told story, he asked his Cabinet for candid advice when Iraq was faring badly early in the war against Iran. The Health Minister spoke up to suggest that Saddam resign temporarily to appease Iran until peace could be reached and then return. After thanking the minister, Saddam ordered his arrest. When the minister's wife pleaded for her husband's life, Saddam sent him back in pieces, stuffed in a black bag. Advisers learned better than to contradict...
...still paying for their votes. "A family will walk 60 km to get maize meal at the [regime-run] Grain Marketing Board," says an aid worker. "They'll be told to come back the next day. When they do, it has all been given to people." Which explains the oft-told joke: ZANU-PF has no supporters, only beneficiaries...
Window pulls further inwards than even the oft-claustrophobic Mezzanine. The music throughout is just as ominous, but never breaks into the sense of open confrontation and menace that gave songs like “Angel” such bite. The album threatens without giving away anything, in part because of its resolutely synthetic approach. Even vocalist Horace Andy is distorted until he sounds something like a keyboard effect...
...Oft-beleaguered Harvard planners, who regularly must deal with Byzantine restrictions on building in Cambridge, become animated and run for their maps when the conversation turns to transporting people to Allston...
...part, Chair of GSD Planning and Design Krieger, who is on the faculty committee for housing, hopes that Harvard officials will push for the oft-mentioned dream of an “urban ring” subway or light rail line around Boston...