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...Tokyo home?shortly before his father's body is discovered in a pool of blood?and heads for distant Takamatsu. There he meets a mysterious librarian, who may or may not be his long-lost mother, and a sexy hairdresser, who may or may not be his vanished elder sister. Filling out the cast is an old man who lost his memory in an apparent UFO encounter but gained the power to converse with cats. Also present is Johnnie Walker (of whisky fame, in tails and top hat), who kills felines to make flutes from their souls, and Colonel Sanders...
Voters too are frightened. Iraqi elder statesman Adnan Pachachi says many residents of big cities like Mosul, Ramadi and Samarra want to participate but are too scared to even register. He suspects that few in the Sunni minority will go to the polls--perhaps not even 10%--which could undermine the election's legitimacy. "Many people from Arab countries will say this is not a correct election," says Dr. Sa'ad Abdul al-Razzak of Pachachi's party. U.S. officials say they will urge Shi'ite leaders to reach out to Sunnis after the election to bring them into...
...It’s fun,” the elder Giovacchini said, “but I do wish we were playing on the same team...
...It’s fun,” the elder Giovacchini said, “but I do wish we were playing on the same team...
...holiday with such a commercial element, there are intriguing signs that the deeper meaning of Christmas is spreading in China. Yiwu, in coastal Zhejiang province, is home to half a million migrant workers from the country's poorest reaches. Many of them have become curious about Christmas, says an elder at Yiwu's main Protestant church. Last year, 30,000 people attended Christmas Eve services in a church with pews seating only 7,000, so the minister set up loudspeakers in the churchyard. At the end, he asked how many first-timers would consider joining the church. "Hands went...