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...Recognizing the need to hammer out a common position, the Europeans have arranged a meeting in London next week with the U.S., Russia and China to discuss how to respond to Tehran's move. One option would be for the Security Council to start by requiring Iran to comply with existing IAEA resolutions, and then consider measures to strengthen the IAEA's powers of inspection, although the problem with this scenario is that the U.N. agency cannot operate without the compliance of the host country. Other options may include travel bans on Iranian officials or restrictions on fuel supplies...
...ought to balance their budget on the backs of the poor." DeLay never got a major speaking role at either of Bush's conventions. Still, the White House has had no qualms about using him to advance its agenda, and he has delivered. Without DeLay's deftness as the Hammer, Bush could have lost battles over the energy bill, the establishment of a new Medicare prescription-drug benefit and the Central American Free Trade Agreement...
...which explains why it is likely to be a while before House Republicans regain the discipline they had in the days when DeLay was known as "the Hammer." His temporary replacement, whip Roy Blunt, wants the job but hasn't proved to be a stellar vote counter in the time he has been filling in. And his undisguised ambition has strained relations with what is left of DeLay's operation. Some of the Old Guard are rallying behind Ohio Congressman John Boehner as a replacement, while younger conservatives are talking up Indiana's Mike Pence. Also considered likely...
...stop-motion short films to feature length, is about a creature that terrorizes townsfolk by eating their prize vegetables. With their usual precision and fey wit, Park and his Aardman colleagues have created a horror-romance that owes as much to Jane Austen's social comedies as to the Hammer monster movies of yore. In Millions, a sack of stolen money falls on 7-year-old Damian (adorable Alex Etel), and he thinks it?s a gift from heaven. Magical realism comes to the English Midlands, where saints speak to little boys and dead mums offer tips on hair conditioners...
...museums, in fact. The Los Angeles exhibition "Masters of American Comics," which opened Nov. 20, is an enterprise so synoptic and sprawling that it comes in sections: part at the Hammer Museum, the rest at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The show runs until March 12, then travels to Milwaukee, Wis.; Newark, N.J.; and New York City...