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...issued a cease-fire edict to the Mahdi Army late last year as the militia struggled to fend off a crackdown by strengthened Iraqi security forces. But dormant fighters with the group say they are ready to take to the streets again if Sadr sends out the call, a prospect that has many in Baghdad increasingly worried lately as sectarian violence appears to be inching upward...
Political junkies who weren't thrilled at the prospect of a relatively staid confirmation process for President Barack Obama's as yet unnamed Supreme Court nominee can rest easy. This week Senate Republicans named perennial bomb thrower Jeff Sessions, 62, of Alabama to be the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, promising to bring at least a few sparks to a confirmation process that - if Minnesota's Al Franken is seated - was bound to be relatively easy...
...Cynthia Wahl, recently laid off from the Telegram, also blogs at mom2mom. She had hoped to spend some time exploring business leads for a new future when she got word that her 14-year-old's middle school was shutting down after a confirmed case of swine flu. The prospect of the whole family being home all day - her husband works at home, too - was "kinda crazy," Wahl says, though she looked forward to some "quality time" with her sons. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...With pessimism about the recession reaching Malthusian proportions, the prospect of securing such a salary by landing a coveted consulting job is decidedly slimmer than in recent years. Even graduating students who have managed to finagle their way into finance realize that Wall Street is no longer (and perhaps never was) a stable route to mega-millions. Having dutifully planned out their lives based on assumptions of monetary success in the banking world, graduating students are finding that these assumptions no longer apply and, more often than not, that the banks no longer exist...
...whose career does not invite the same kind of respect, and even his presence adds interest, if only for the strangeness of the interaction between his background in teen pop and the backgrounds of his new bandmates.There is no doubt, then, that Tinted Windows makes for an intriguing prospect. But the actual product has little in common with the past achievements of the bandmembers. Tinted Windows is 36 minutes of three-chord power-pop, and one is hard-pressed to find any connection to the textural diversity of “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness...