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...topics of discussion in a May 20 debate in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on the subject of what could derail the Gulf boom. The session was co-hosted by TIME and the World Economic Forum on the Middle East. For all of the panelists, political stability was a fundamental concern. Citing the war in Iraq, the turmoil in Lebanon and the failure to achieve peace in Israel, Mohammed Shafik Gabr, chairman of Egypt's Artoc Group for Investment & Development, warned that "things are not getting any better" in the broader region...
...There was a peculiar offhandedness to the way Warren invited the conference, at the very end of the proceedings, to join his coalition - an approach that may reflect concern about getting drawn too deeply into the specifics of a plan that promises to be extremely complicated and possibly controversial. The PEACE program is an attempt to radically re-engineer Evangelicalism's huge missionary culture, connecting individual churches in the U.S. to congregations in target countries rather than funneling aid and evangelism through agencies that send trained professionals into the field. One of the coalition's theoretical benefits would be efficiency...
...needed medicine to clinically depressed individuals?" then you might have one kind of answer to it. And if your question is, "Should antidepressants be available like other recreational drugs, like alcohol?"" then you've got a slightly different question. The trouble, I guess, is there's a lot of concern that if you start providing needed medicine to clinically depressed individuals over the counter, it will pretty quickly become a drug that's used much more like alcohol or some other kind of what we might call recreational drugs...
...bastion since World War II. The sheer size of the victory - 17.6% of the electorate switched from Labour to Tory since the last election in 2005 - was sufficient cause to pass over the policy missteps and campaign gaffes that contributed to the debacle and go straight to the jugular concern of British politics these days: how long can Gordon Brown survive...
...told Israeli officials that Bush was prepared to attack Iran, but that Gates and Rice were blocking the way. It was a second-hand report that White House Press Secretary Dana Perino strongly denied. On the Hill Thursday, Petraeus listed Iran as key to the top two security concerns facing Central Command, and mentioned nuclear worries in particular. "The lack of transparency in efforts by countries such as Iran and Syria to develop their nuclear programs is a major concern," he said...