The End of the Road for Saddam

Thu Dec 18 08:22:23 PST 2003

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THIS WEEK @ USNEWS
Highlights from the magazine and usnews.com
Dec. 16, 2003
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END OF THE ROAD (Web Exclusive)

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him!"
--Paul Bremer, announcing the capture of Saddam Hussein

His image, strong and virile, gazed from countless buildings when he ruled Iraq like his personal fiefdom. In his gleaming palaces, he greeted courtiers and diplomats in hand-cut suits and beautiful silk ties. After he rebuilt ancient Babylon, his name was engraved in gleaming stone alongside those of Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi. But when he emerged from his fetid spider-hole on Saturday, Saddam Hussein resembled nothing so much as one of those fairy-tale trolls who live under bridges, his lank hair tangled and greasy, his grey-streaked beard a thicket that looked like an old scrub brush.

Saddam Hussein was captured Saturday night in a raid near his hometown of Tikrit:
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JESUS IN AMERICA (Cover Story)

"One way you figure out your place in America is figuring out what you think about Jesus."
--Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University and author of a new book, "American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon"

As two new scholarly studies show, for more than two centuries Americans have been busy recasting the image of Jesus to suit contemporary sensibilities and to advance personal or political agendas. From the revivalist sermons of the 19th century's Second Great Awakening to the '70s  rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" to Mel Gibson's forthcoming film depicting Christ's Passion, those engaged in representing Jesus always claim to be returning to the real Galilean.

Behind the wild success of The Da Vinci Code lies a centuries-old urge to recapture the original Jesus:
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BUSH'S SECRETS (Investigative Report)

"I think they have an overreliance on the utility of secrecy. They don't seem to realize secrecy is a two-edge sword that cuts you as well as protects you."
--Steven Garfinkel, a retired government lawyer and expert on classified information about the Bush administration

For the past three years, the Bush administration has quietly but efficiently dropped a shroud of secrecy across many critical operations of the federal government--cloaking its own affairs from scrutiny and removing from the public domain important information on health, safety, and environmental matters. The result has been a reversal of a decades-long trend of openness in government while making increasing amounts of information unavailable to the taxpayers who pay for its collection and analysis.

The administration is doing the public's business out of the public eye, far more than has been documented. Here's how–and why:
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WHO KILLED ANNA MAE? (Special Report)

"Had this been a white person in the Republican Party, they would have solved it right away."
--Roger Amiotte, an Indian cattle rancher who found Anna Mae's body at the bottom of a 30-foot ravine

In the middle of the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff was Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash. Though not yet 30, Anna Mae was one of a very few women prominent within the American Indian Movement, and her dedication to the cause made her a larger-than-life figure. But ultimately Anna Mae found that life on the Pine Ridge reservation could be frighteningly cheap. In December 1975, she was killed with a gunshot to the back of the head. And an enduring mystery was born. 

Two years after the 1973 Wounded Knee siege, an Indian activist was shot in a South Dakota ravine. At last, her murder is going to trial:
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PILL PROFITS (Money & Business)

"With such a combination of pressure and opportunity, sparks are going to fly."
--Barrie James, a pharmaceutical marketing consultant

Sometime shortly after the eggnog washes down the last of the pumpkin pie this holiday season, Americans can expect an aggressive advertising campaign warning them of the dangers of high cholesterol. If the seemingly ubiquitous advertisements for Lipitor and Zocor haven't driven home the ability of statin drugs to lower levels of the artery-clogging goo yet, expect AstraZeneca's Crestor to add to the noise level.

Drugmakers gird for a multibillion-dollar marketing war over cholesterol-lowering drugs while consumers try to sort through the hype:
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AN ELECTION...FOR A SHERIFF (Editorial)

"How does an open and disputatious democracy (i.e. us) deal with a ruthless group of radical Islamists?"
--Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor-in-chief

For the first time since the Vietnam era's presidential campaigns in 1968 and 1972, foreign policy will dominate a presidential election as it hasn't done through successive convulsions from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the first Gulf War. The slogan that captured American politics in 1992 was "It's the economy, stupid." In 1996, fewer than 5 percent voted on the basis of foreign policy.

Why terrorism, and America's role as global superpower, will affect the way we vote next year:
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