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...Slick Announcing a 19% slide in Royal Dutch/Shell's fourth-quarter profits, chairman Philip Watts told shareholders he would not step down from the Anglo-Dutch firm after it slashed its proven oil and gas reserves estimate...
...bigger forces for stability." A State Department official, on the other hand, says: "I am skeptical that anyone really understands what Sistani's about." The world may be about to find out. --Reported by Brian Bennett and Hassan Fattah/Baghdad, Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Scott MacLeod/Cairo, Nahid Siamdoust/Qum, Philip Smucker/Karbala, Phil Zabriskie/Najaf
...substantial arms caches. Local Turkomans, fearing domination by Kurds, have formed a new alliance with Kirkuk's Arabs. Aliya Chakmakchi, a Turkoman who works as a secretary for the U.S. Army in Kirkuk, voices a widespread fear: "If the U.S. leaves here, everyone will just murder each other." --By Philip Smucker/Kirkuk
...picture of a discontented family over the long arc of the years, this book can remind you of The Corrections without Jonathan Franzen's emotional knots. In its subplot of a daughter lost to the lures of the 1960s, it can bring to mind American Pastoral without Philip Roth's refining fires. Toward the end, Michael hears an old song on his car radio. "He liked the way the singer kept her voice so plain and ordinary," Tyler tells us, "too intent on expressing her sadness to concern herself with effect." That's the tone Tyler is generally after herself...
...surveys his collection of arms, he sounds like a man confident that time, if nothing else, is on his side. "We are gaining experience every day," he says. "We will have enough weapons to fight for 50 years." --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson/Washington, Hassan Fattah/Baghdad and Philip Smucker/Balad