One of the most vividly written reports from anywhere in the war, John F. Burns' account of daily Baghdad life in the NYTimes:
On the same street where the driver was pulled over this morning, a man who owns a boutique selling expensive perfumes to the Iraqi elite ó a man dependent on the custom of people grown rich and powerful under the nearly 24-year-old rule of Mr. Hussein, and thus a man whose fortunes could be about to tank ó was busy washing his open-top Japanese jeep, with red flashes on the side to mark him as a man with zip. Car washed, he took the hose to the plants flanking his boutique's doorway.
