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...Hamas, Hizballah and Syria - for Middle East supremacy that began after the invasion of Iraq. On a military level, ties between America and Israel have never been stronger - the two countries staged their largest ever joint military exercise last year. But most Americans don't really want to be part of a war for Middle Eastern supremacy - they want the U.S. out of Iraq and Afghanistan as quickly as possible and for their government to spend that money creating jobs at home...
...players, however, the rowdy Canadian fans might be taking things a bit too far. "I don't like when they cheer a missed shot," says Glen Isaacson, while watching his son Chris and his teammates fall to Canada 7-2 on Monday. "It violates curling etiquette. That's the part that makes it tough to watch...
...insistence that Pakistan step up its cooperation in the fight against the Afghan Taliban had riled the military bigwigs in the south Asian nation - Pakistan's military helped create Mullah Omar and his Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s and have surreptitiously supported them, for the most part, ever since. The ties have remained testy. When army chief Ashfaq Kayani, the most powerful man in Pakistan, was in Washington a few months ago, General David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, remarked, "We're your only friends in Washington." Kayani reportedly replied, "Your friendship is exactly what...
After years of suffering the same fate, ballroom dancing is enjoying a renaissance of popularity, thanks to the ABC hit - which has avatars in almost every part of the world. Celebrities are clamoring to compete on the show and learning that dancing a tango or a waltz can actually be fun. (And, this being show biz, it is a plus that the brutal training schedule is a great way to drop a few pounds.) Just think of ice dancing as ballroom dancing - but navigating through a frozen dance floor on blades. Why shouldn't it benefit from the popularity...
...posture and how to best present themselves to an audience of tens of thousands in ice arenas. But until actors and supermodels and athletes took to the dance floor in made-for-television competitions, ballroom had the mothball aroma of a quaint, bygone era, when learning to waltz was part of one's social education, like etiquette classes and lessons in table manners. So take the ingredients of DWTS, the waltz and tango and rumba, put quarter-inch blades on the dancers, and get them moving at a much quicker clip. That's what is giving the sport its growing...