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...Yawer? Most Iraqis don't know him all that well - one of the reasons he came in last on the poll. Nearly a third of those polled said they had not heard enough about him to have an opinion. As a leading figure in a northern Iraqi tribe, he kept a low profile until the very end of the behind-the-scenes political power play that led to his nomination. Said al-Dulame: "He's a non-controversial figure. He's never been part of the political system, he was never a figure of the opposition during the Saddam...
...countryside to toil miserably as field hands during Mao Zedong's program to "reeducate" the intelligentsia. Not all who were targets of class warfare were destroyed by it, however. Mao's Last Dancer, the latest biography set in the Cultural Revolution, tells the story of a peasant boy from northern China who was propelled to international stardom by Mao's social engineering...
...marriage and the family. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law." Muslim authorities are as adamantly opposed to it, and in France the Protestant Church has expressed reservations. Still, last year, predominantly (though only nominally) Catholic Belgium went almost as far as its northern neighbor, passing a law that gives all rights but adoption to homosexual couples. This summer the Belgian federal Parliament is expected to vote on a proposal to allow same-sex couples to adopt and, according to Socialist M.P. Karine Lalieux, it is likely to pass. "In Belgium we've been able...
...Sight SUDAN The Islamic northern government and southern Christian and animist rebels agreed to a peace deal at talks in Kenya to end to 21 years of civil war. The deal does not cover the conflict in the western region of Darfur...
...since you asked, my favorite era is Northern Renaissance and my favorite painter is van der Weyden,” he said...