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...opponents of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, it was an Eid bonus. With the hubbub over the Status of Forces Agreement having died down, the movement led by the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had run out of things to denounce: Zeidi's "heroism" was just what they needed to return to the streets, bearing the usual banners of protest and U.S. flags to burn. The Sadrists also made political hay of Zeidi in parliament, bringing it to a standstill. The gadfly speaker, Mahmoud Mashadani - no mean headline-grabber himself - threatened to resign.(See the Top 10 Awkward Moments...
...tactician par excellence, feared the possibility that the Prime Minister's deal would lead to elections that would remove him from power. Never mind that Yusuf himself was supposed to organize those elections when he was appointed in 2004. "We Somalis all know that Yusuf is against any peace agreement," Mohamed Aden, a regional administrator in Somalia, told TIME. "If it comes to elections, Yusuf will lose because he is so unpopular...
...negotiations framework. The point of the Poznan talks was to smooth the way for a new international pact on climate change next year in Copenhagen, to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. (If you're wondering why the world needs to come up with a new agreement to replace a pact that doesn't expire for another three years - well, that's U.N. speed.) And while U.N. officials maintained that Poznan set the stage for next year's deadline talks, most of the major issues - the division of responsibilities between rich and poor nations, tropical deforestation, sharing clean...
There was common agreement, especially among the young, that Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still was a really neat movie. And so it remains, for a lot of reasons: its timing, at the onset of the atomic age and the cold war; the clear identification of Klaatu as a Christ figure (his earth name is John Carpenter - or "JC" if you care to parse those initials - and his surname refers us to Jesus's occupation); the fact that its success helped initiate what amounted to a new and potent movie genre - sci-fi - and, above...
...ambitions took a hit this week when a joint project with Chrysler to develop a small car for sale in the U.S. and elsewhere was terminated. In a statement, Mike Manley, Chrysler's executive vice president for international sales and marketing, said that the decision to cancel the cooperation agreement was made jointly by both companies because they "have realized that the economic situation and market environment around the world have changed significantly since the agreement was signed." Neither company explained in detail why the discussions on the joint project, which began in 2007, fell apart. But Lin Huaibin...