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...threatening to boycott the referendum on Iraq's constitution, a step that would effectively derail the political process and undermine any prospect of the Oct. 15 vote helping to end the insurgency. Many Sunni groups say the vote would be meaningless, since their community is being denied a fair chance to vote down the draft constitution - and they believed their suspicions were confirmed by Sunday's vote in the Shiite-led Iraqi parliament to rewrite the rules in a way that effectively made it impossible for Sunnis to defeat the constitution in the referendum. That change was hastily retracted, Monday...
...religious and the profane mix in Rome, and never more than during the Christmas holiday season. The Fair of the Befana explodes in the baroque Piazza Navona on Dec. 8 and continues until Jan. 6. Befana, a witchlike character, is said to arrive in homes on Epiphany to bring toys and sweets to good children and a lump of coal to naughty ones. Also during the holidays, all of Rome traipses from one church to another to view the ancient Nativity crèches. The oldest is believed to be the 13th century crèche of Arnolfo di Cambio...
...thinking of Africa as a gash that can be stitched up by so-called “developed nations†and their aid agencies, and start thinking of Africa as a continent of people who have the potential and desire to solve their own problems and deserve a fair chance of doing so. Still, people outside of Africa need to change more than their thinking if Africans are ever to get a decent shot at healing the many wounds of the continent...
...stamp collectors. There's also a market for anything connected to transportation (think cruise-ship programs, trolley tickets and the like). Invitations to events like a presidential Inauguration are in demand. In fact, anything relating to topics of historical interest--a war, the moon landing, a World's Fair--can bring bucks. Even some old magazines can command a fair price at market (not National Geographic, however--too plentiful). Carbone recently sold more than 100 issues of Ladies' Home Journal from the 1890s, bundled in sets of six, for between...
Planners thrive on knowing they help clients with their retirement, but market swings alone don't deliver memorable moments. "Try being in a room with a couple as they decide a fair amount of money to give each of their children when they die," says Jetton. "It's grueling...