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...political devotees, Bennelong is an indigenous word meaning Middle Australia: average, mainstream, "aspirational." Howard knows how his constituents think and act because he is one of them. First elected to federal Parliament in 1974, he has traveled well beyond his origins and his own family's home on the city's comfortable North Shore. But the P.M. has never lost his bearings on the area he represents, even as it has been transformed by wealth and Asian immigration. In fact, Bennelong is Howard's touchstone for the get-ahead and assimilating migrants he believes are the key to national cohesion...
...political infighting could yet scuttle the deal once it goes to a vote in parliament, perhaps in early March, say the law's detractors. "The feeling is that the law is focused very much on sectarianism," says Saleh al-Mutlaq, who heads the National Dialogue Front, a small secular party with 11 seats in parliament. "It divides the country and the wealth into groups - Kurds, Sunnis, Shi'ites," he said on the phone from Amman on Tuesday...
...rumblings of opposition go beyond parliament to the oil fields themselves. Iraq's biggest oil unions, which could potentially disrupt production, have been among the law's strongest opponents. Hassan Jum'ah Awwad Al-Asadi, head of Iraq's Federation of Oil Unions, the largest union group, says he intends to mobilize his 23,000 or so members against the draft. "We want a new, different law, which will be in the interests of Iraqis," he said by phone from Basra on Wednesday. "If there is no solution we can stop production, stop exports." In a more threatening tone...
...large quantities of oil, Morrow says. "It's very obvious to me that oil companies, including large ones, are following these negotiations closely, looking for a clear legal regime for Iraq." But before they find clarity, they are likely to be looking at some fiery arguments in Iraq's parliament...
...architectural thinking is resolutely outside the box. As he once remarked, "There is nothing to say that every house has to have eight corners." There don't appear to be any at all in the country house in Wales that his firm designed for a Labour Member of Parliament. On its seaward-facing side, it consists of just an elliptical wall of floor-to-ceiling windows that are wedged directly into the land like the filling in a pita pocket. There are also no detectable corners in that snaking brontosaurus house, a proposal from 2005 that Kaplicky calls Villa. Although...