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...menace to society. Yet according to Egyptian authorities, the 64-year-old sociology professor and civic activist is one of the most dangerous men in the country. This week he is due in court to face sedition charges for a third time - two previous convictions were overturned on appeal, and Ibrahim was released in December after a five-month prison stay (his third in two years). If convicted again of receiving illegal foreign funding and "tarnishing Egypt's image" by blowing the whistle on parliamentary election fraud and discrimination against minority Coptic Christians, he faces a sentence...
...referencing ancient Japanese theater's use of hand positions, Atangan puts more care into the arrangement of fingers and palms than a less interesting artist will put into an entire page. Visually complex while being incredibly easy to read, "The Yellow Jar" has the kind of magic that will appeal as much to children as adults. You won't believe it's his first book...
...While appeal to the Supreme Court promises success, the response from South Carolina legislators is interesting. Last week, State Representative John Altman (R-Charleston Co.) introduced legislation for a corresponding “Choose Death” license plate—for those who believe a “Choose Life” plate doesn’t speak for them. PP is not amused...
...concerns over weak economic indicators and an increased risk of war in the Middle East pushed mortgage rates lower," said Frank Nothaft, chief economist at mortgage-finance company Freddie Mac (which, unsurprisingly, posted a 25 percent increase in net income in Q4). "That and falling stock prices raised investor appeal for U.S. Treasury Bonds, which in turn, allowed most interest rates to drift even lower...
...knew [Kingpin] would be risky and different and potentially controversial," says NBC entertainment president Jeff Zucker. "All of those things appeal to us." Risky, yes--enough so that NBC ordered only six episodes. Controversial, maybe. But different? Kingpin follows Miguel Cadena (Yancey Arias), a Mob boss who prefers to think of himself as a captain-of-industry type, who gets both support and agita from a headstrong wife and who wants to shield his son from his bloody business. If you infringed this closely on one of Tony Soprano's construction scams, your head would end up in a bowling...