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...doubt that means there's more bad news ahead for Canadian pigs and good news for American lettuce. Still, despite the ups and downs the dollar brought in 2007, Canada's economy barely wavered. Along with the loonie, output, employment and Canadians' deservedly inflated pride all flew steadily in the face of a global credit crisis. In fact, the most remarkable thing about the loonie's ascent may be how handily Canadians handled it - notwithstanding the odd hurled book. Just imagine if in 2002 someone had prophesied today's exchange rates. "I think we [all] would have concluded that...
...least one who understands us," he says, adding that they are delighted to find that Obama speaks passable Bahasa, the language spoken in Indonesia and Malaysia. The international fascination with Obama was on full display when Obama launched his campaign last February and media from more than 60 countries flew in to Springfield, Ill., to cover the event...
Forster is fortunate that Hosseinni has provided him with a lovely, appropriately cinematic novel and controlling metaphor, the kite flying that precedes his title's kite running. It seems that in the peaceable Kabul of yore, kids once flew kites competitively, hoping to cut their opponents' strings by deftly maneuvering their own kites as they swooped through the air. It is a pretty game, but one that also hints at the ferocities that will follow in this film. Once it is over, the kids ran madly through the streets to retrieve the beautiful object they had downed. The servant...
...Book: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” by Ken Kesey
...endorsed Romney. Few believed that Huckabee, the ordained Southern Baptist who actually seemed to be one of them, could win. And then, lo and behold, rank-and-file Evangelicals went off and lined up in unexpected numbers for the former Arkansas Governor. The falcons heard the falconers - and then flew off in a different direction. It's another sign of a party whose power structure has uncoupled from the people who put it in power in the first place...