Notes from different corners of the world.

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• Dispatches From Iraq What happens when Iraq's ethnic conflicts are jammed into one very small place?
  Wendell Steavenson Dec. 23, 2003
  
• Dispatch From Tehran's Garden of Martyrs Families who lost children in the Iran-Iraq War react to Saddam's capture.
  Mahdis Keshavarz Dec. 19, 2003
  
• Dispatches From Ivory Coast The refugee merry-go-round.
  Jeremy Kahn Dec. 8, 2003
  
• Dispatches From Middle-earth Why Yanks are snatching up New Zealand real estate.
  Brad Wieners Dec. 2, 2003
  
• Soccer Moms and Weirdos Britain protests against President Bush.
  Moira Redmond Nov. 21, 2003
  
• Behind the Scenes at the Tour de France 
  Ian Austen July 23, 2003
  
• Argentina on the Cheap 
  Mark Mazzetti July 7, 2003
  
• Inside the American Idol Studio The weird vibe at the show's finale.
  Michael Joseph Gross May 22, 2003
  
• Dispatches From Northern Iraq 
  Wendell Steavenson March 25, 2003
  
• A Live Report From Baghdad 
  Nate Thayer March 20, 2003
  
• Dispatches From Davos 
  Chris Anderson Jan. 24, 2003
  
• David Plotz in Africa 
  David Plotz Jan. 22, 2003