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Founded on Jan. 12, 1959, Motown quickly became another Detroit factory; where the Big Three produced automobiles, Motown assembled the soul and pop classics that changed America. There's no hyperbole in that statement. Arriving at the height of the civil rights movement, Motown was a black-owned, black-centered business that gave white America something they just could not get enough of - joyous, sad, romantic, mad, groovin', movin' music. (See an audio slideshow of five of Motown's best tunes...
Khalif is one of 131 female candidates - some are more willing than others - to include their name on the more than 500-person ballot for Anbar's provincial election, slated for Jan. 31. Al-Hais' party is one of several that are composed of leaders from the homegrown Awakening movement; they are expected to be among the most popular contenders for council seats. (See pictures of a summit of Anbar's leading sheiks...
Anbar, which makes up nearly one-third of Iraq's territory, was at the heart of the country's bloody insurgency against U.S. troops, which raged for more than three years. In 2006 local sheiks and former insurgents began to band together to form the Awakening movement. With funding from the U.S. military, the movement fought a fierce battle in 2007 against al-Qaeda-led insurgents, inspiring similar programs in other areas of Iraq. The Awakening is largely credited with quelling the insurgency and bringing stability to Anbar and Baghdad. Now many of Anbar's 35 parties carry names that...
...phone vendor in Hurriya district who says he too would vote for al-Maliki's Dawa Islamic Party, despite its predominant Shi'ite background. Indeed, al-Maliki has also found friends in a host of new tribe-based parties that have grown out of Anbar's largely Sunni Awakening movement. (See pictures of a summit of Anbar's sheiks...
...nearly to her skull, Lynch lived alone in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sustained by Social Security benefits granted early due to a mental illness. She landed on the website of the Sons of Dixie, a group that had been founded by Raymond "Chuck" Foster. (See pictures of the Civil Rights movement from Emmett Till to Barack Obama...