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...coffee-table tomes in recent years mean that herbaceous borders and potting mix are as hotly debated by trendy young home-buyers as they are by seniors in straw-brimmed hats. "People touring gardens have got younger due to changes in lifestyle," affirms Michael Italiaander of U.S.-based specialist tour operator, Expo Garden Tours...
...While you don't need the services of a specialist to enjoy the old Czarist summer gardens at Peterhof in St. Petersburg or the alluring Moorish gardens in Granada, Spain, expert help can get you past some lesser-known garden walls. The private estancias of Uruguay or the hidden villas of Italy, for example, offer gardens all the more exquisite because they are almost never opened to the public. "A garden is most appreciated when it is peaceful. And special private visits are now very popular," says Sue Macdonald of U.K.-based company Boxwood Tours...
...symbols. Putting Saddam Hussein in the dock was a dramatic way to show that the new bosses mean business, a potent reminder of the tyranny Iraqis have escaped. But the insurgents delivered a few signals of their own: on the night of the hand-off, the group holding Army Specialist Keith Maupin since April said he had been shot dead. And late in the week, rockets exploded near two Baghdad hotels housing foreigners, including many journalists. Amid all the chaos, here's how the new government hopes to turn things around...
...rate of 24%, notes Paul Collison, an oil analyst with Brunswick UBS brokers, just like many Western oil companies do in other parts of the world. The practice is not necessarily illegal, and many of the tax-reduction schemes used by Russian oil companies were devised by the same specialists who work for major Western corporations. Other Russian oil firms, like Sibneft, paid even lower rates without incurring the Kremlin's wrath. The root of the crisis lies in personal rivalry. Early in Putin's first presidential term, the oligarchs and the Kremlin made an informal agreement: if the oligarchs...
Among those who have thrown their support behind the jihad is insurgent leader Abu Ali. A ballistic-missile specialist in Saddam's Fedayeen militia, he fought U.S. troops during the invasion and has served as a resistance commander ever since, organizing rocket attacks on the green zone, the headquarters of the U.S. administration in Baghdad. When interviewed by TIME last fall, he spoke of a vain hope that Saddam would return and re-establish a Baathist regime. But at a recent meeting near a rural mosque, he said he is fighting to rid all Muslim lands of infidels...