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...Minister is expected to make a statement about the timing and management of a further drawdown in October, when parliament returns after the long summer break and after delivery of a situation report by U.S. General David Petraeus, expected in September. Speculation is rife that Britain is heading as fast as possible for the exit. "The British have given up and they know they will be leaving Iraq soon," the radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told the British daily The Independent, on Aug. 20. His gleeful tone contrasted with the increasingly irritable mood music in Washington. A British...
...magazine article, song, music festival, blog, lecture or conversation that tries to raise awareness on climate change has to overcome the condition of our age: environmental overkill. Nowadays you'd have to have your head buried in Arctic ice to be unaware of global warming, and that's melting fast anyway. The makers of the new eco-documentary The 11th Hour address this problem in two ways. One, they keep the pace of the film humming, shifting rapidly from interview to interview with environmentalists, skipping from the seas rising to the air dimming to the endless evils of oil corporations...
...sufferings. Gandhi sought to deter further killings by living among Muslims himself, and he embarked on a hunger strike against communal violence that generated such public shame and outrage that sectarian tensions in the city gave way to universal concern for the aging man of principle. Gandhi broke his fast as weeping rioters laid their machetes at his feet...
...chairman of Tata Motors' parent company, Tata Group, believes they can eventually sell as many as a million cheap cars a year worldwide. That may be a realistic assessment. Globally, up to 3.7 million of such vehicles could be sold annually within the next few years, mostly in fast-growing markets like Brazil, China, India and Russia, says Abdul Majeed, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Chennai (formerly Madras). "It's all about affordability and fuel efficiency," says Majeed. "The very cheap car is a trend big manufacturers can't miss...
...sided smash "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel." By November his first movie, Love Me Tender, was in the theaters. Five #1 singles, a debut album that went gold, and a movie, all in one annus mirabilis - no other entertainers had gone from nowhere to everywhere quite as fast as Elvis had, or with quite the force...