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Maliki appears intent on pressing the issue anew with the Obama Administration, which will have to decide soon whether to keep offering U.S. protection to the group or to yield to Iraqi demands to close Camp Ashraf. If the White House allows the Iraqi government to close the camp, the Iranian leadership is likely to see the move as a sign that the new Administration is eager to ease tensions between Washington and Tehran. A continuation of the status quo, however, could chill Obama's early outreach efforts...
...They make some kind of food at the Munck plant in New Ulm, Minn., but the camera is too distracted by its intent to build a case against Lucy (Zellweger) to ever show us precisely what. Instead, director Jonas Elmer keeps our eyes fixed at the level of supercilious Lucy's excruciatingly high heels as she minces around the factory, to hammer home the fact that she's a fish out of water. Jars of something brown go by occasionally, but it's the people who make the brown stuff who matter. And they are all Real Americans, the salt...
...Still, the company insists that its liquidity remains intact. "We ended the third quarter with $395 million in cash and cash equivalents," says Office Depot spokesman Brian Levine. "While the fourth quarter is not yet closed, we believe that we did not burn cash. It is our intent that we will maintain our liquidity throughout 2009, even under our most conservative projections of the economic environment...
...have accompanied it. In 1998, the war sucked six countries into a smash-and-grab for Congo's minerals and timber. And it has spawned a plethora of new rebel groups, collectively known as the Mai Mai, founded on a mix of genuine tribal grievances and criminal and murderous intent. Everyone--the Mai Mai, the Congolese army, Hutu and Tutsi, Congolese and Rwandan--fights everyone else...
...nation forfeits its sovereignty if it commits or is unable to prevent massive human-rights abuses on its soil. Should that happen, other nations can take action--using peaceful means such as diplomacy or sanctions or, if all else fails, military force--through the U.N. Security Council. Though the intent is not to replace a country's government, invoking R2P serves as a censure of it. Its message: You are doing an unacceptably poor job. We, the world, can and must do better...