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With all their assorted answers, let’s just say this family’s going to need some major practice to avoid any intra-family feuding come taping time. But if the rigorous Family Feud screening process says they can do it, who are we to disagree...
...reduce the generosity of benefits, and leave people with fewer consumer protections,” the study found. The group focused on McCain’s proposals to introduce a tax on insurance premiums paid by employers, to institute an individual refundable tax credit, and to move toward allowing intra-state policy purchases. The authors wrote that they felt Obama’s health care plan had been scrutinized during the primary season but McCain’s had not been subjected to academic review. “Obama’s plan is more likely, right...
...hand-over, originally scheduled for June, took place on Monday, making Anbar the 11th of Iraq's 18 provinces, and the first Sunni region, to return to the central government's control. It's a measure of the growing security gains in the war-scarred country, but simmering intra-Sunni tensions in Anbar are bubbling...
...Gaza Palestinian Infighting In the deadliest intra-Palestinian violence in nine months, 11 people were killed in the Gaza Strip on Aug. 2. Eight of them were members of the Hilles clan, a large family of Gazans who found themselves in a three-way crossfire among the Islamist group Hamas, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah and Israel. The Hilles clan was blamed for a late-July bombing that left five Hamas members and one child dead. Hamas retaliated, and in the ensuing violence, more than 180 people--many of them clan members--fled over the border into Israel, where they...
...cold war, the ISI served as the key intermediary for channeling covert U.S. support to the mujahedin fighting the Soviets in neighboring Afghanistan. Some of these fighters were recruited and trained directly by the ISI, and the organization later helped bring the Taliban to power to end the intra-mujahedin fighting that followed the Soviet withdrawal. The ISI also built intimate links with indigenous jihadist groups, through which it fought a proxy war against India in disputed Kashmir. In domestic politics, the intelligence organization has been accused of rigging elections, intimidation and even overthrowing governments...