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...trial is unlikely to proceed, however, without Saddam inside the rust-colored metal bars of the dock. Even if the former dictator refuses to attend, the court can demand that Saddam be brought before the judge by force. Guards used force during the Dujail case in February to bring Saddam and three other defendants, disheveled and in their pyjamas, to hear testimony. Saddam then claimed he was on a hunger strike to protest his rough treatment by then chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman...
Edward B. Rust...
...Burrup Peninsula, near Dampier. He's keen to see them again. The pen-insula alone holds some 10,000 known engravings, but the visitors' center is closed for renovations, there are no signposts, and the intrepid Parker, 47, searches his creaky memory in vain. Low, brown boulders and rust-colored piles of super-hard granophyre give no clue to the location of the artistic riches hidden in the scrub beyond the sealed road from Karratha...
...Burton name flanked by a shamrock. A small helicopter (all stock mustering is now done with choppers) is parked not far from the old house. In a nearby paddock, a dozen fit horses graze; breathy plumes escape from nostrils in the cool early-morning air. Burton points out a rust-colored old shack. Surprisingly sturdy, it was built by Aboriginal workers out of anthills and spinifex. "This is where they'd sleep when they weren't camping out," says Burton. Those stockmen may have been flint hard, he says, but they were also well looked after. They were paid...
Cincinnati shares many attributes with Pittsburgh. Both are Rust Belt cities with midsize populations--314,000 for Cincinnati and 322,000 for Pittsburgh--and workforces similar in size and composition. Each has seen its once mighty manufacturing base crumble, with Cincinnati losing 17,000 manufacturing jobs over the past decade and Pittsburgh 22,600. But they diverge in their treatment of janitors and other low-wage service workers, and living-wage advocates say the results are telling. In Cincinnati neighborhoods like Over-the-Rhine and the West End, where Jones lives, poor wages coupled with high rates of drug...