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...fact that poor countries can and will be crushed under the wheel of the global recession makes one point extremely clear. There is no league of nations, nor has there ever been one, perhaps because the interests of the largest powers are too widely separated. Since there is no forum to address the issues that could undermine the future health of all countries, the current lack of cooperation becomes a form of fatalism...
...white” babies, who wore the expression of an embittered, elderly man, repeatedly shouted the racial slur at random. The first baby to do so popped its head through a hole in the board, babbling incomprehensibly and occasionally saying the word “nigger” very clearly. She was joined by a second baby who took an angry tone with his gibberish and exclamations of “nigger.”Two screaming babies followed and eventually two more joined them. Their disagreement was silenced when one baby snorted a great throaty wad and spit...
Violence in Baghdad has dropped off markedly in the past year, but despite the calm days, it's clear that the capital has not entered a post-war phase...
...cracks in the relationship began to show in January, when McConnell - fresh off his own surprisingly tough re-election battle - told the National Press Club that he would wait to comment on the 2010 race until Bunning "had made his intentions clear." That prompted a furious response from Bunning, who suggested McConnell has either lost his memory or his honesty. "He knew very well what my intentions are," he said in a conference call with reporters the next...
...sweetheart, a policeman called Bilal, when she was 15. Three months later he was dead, killed during one of the many bloody episodes in Iraq's brutal war. After the obligatory four-month mourning period dictated by Islamic Shari'a law, Atoor's mother and two brothers made it clear that they intended to sell her to a brothel close to their home in western Baghdad, just as they had sold her older twin sisters. Frightened, she told a friend in the police force to raid her home and the nearby brothel. His unit did, and Atoor spent the next...