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...more moderate Sunni parties have withdrawn from the election on the grounds that it can't be held under present security conditions. The registering of voters and other electoral preparations in areas with substantial Sunni populations is way behind schedule, with many electoral officials having been murdered or having quit. The UN body overseeing the election plans to compensate by allowing Sunnis in volatile areas such as Anbar province (which includes Fallujah) and the northern city of Mosul to register and vote at the same time on election day. But the daily deluge of bombings, ambushes and assassinations throughout Sunni...
...cent-tchu-ate the Positive, Moonglow and Dancing in the Dark with his eponymous big band and the Grammercy Five. A brainy and sometimes irascible perfectionist who was married eight times (including to Lana Turner and Ava Gardner), Shaw had little patience for the music business, which he quit for good...
...medical degree, didn't want to compromise the education of her daughter Lindsay, 13, an ?lite gymnast who spends eight hours a day in the gym. "Regular school was not an option," says Bannon, "but I wanted to make sure she could go back at grade level if she quit gymnastics." Laurel Springs' enrollment has increased 35% a year for the past four years, to 1,800 students. At least 25% are either athletes or child entertainers...
...Proportion of Americans making New Year's resolutions who have resolved to quit smoking in 2005, the most popular pledge...
...retirements, he recorded with his eponymous Big Band, the Gramercy Five and other groups, producing such hits as Frenesi, Star Dust and Summit Ridge Drive. A sometimes irascible perfectionist who had eight wives (including Lana Turner and Ava Gardner), he had little patience for the music business, which he quit for good...