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The euphoria over Ishmeet Singh's victory reflects the need of the Sikh community's elders to find turbaned role models. While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, always seen with a spiffy turban, is an obvious example, Sikh leaders also hail pop culture icons such as the "turbanator" - cricket hero Harbhajan...
The former Vice President spoke shortly after European Union officials had resorted to an unusually public show of anger by threatening to boycott U.S.-sponsored climate talks in Washington next month to protest the Bush Administration's opposition to negotiating over setting limits on carbon emissions. Earlier in the day...
On this and previous albums, Ringo defies the rock convention best articulated by Neil Young: "It's better to burn out/ Than to fade away." Ringo's compositions convey an upbeat personal philosophy (sample line: "You've got to love every breath that you breathe/ Look at the sky and...
Past the halfway point of the conference, which ends on Dec. 14, the signs are generally positive. At a briefing over the weekend, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change executive chairman Yvo de Boer praised the constructive behavior of China, which for the first time seemed open to the...
The U.S. has been one of the world's major contributors to global humanitarian land mine assistance. Every year the U.S. sponsors land mine-recognition training in schools around the world. It pays for de-mining programs and equipment. What it hasn't done, however, is actually agree to the...