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...elections, many Sunnis across Iraq simply did not participate, a defiance that left them dejected and marginalized - and susceptible to the embrace of insurgent elements. Petraeus and other American officials in Baghdad think Sunnis will take part in elections this time and rejoin the civic process rather than rage against it. "They want their seats at the table back," Petraeus says...
...escalating crisis between Colombia and its neighbors is more than just a case of Andean road rage. It exposes volatile political fault lines not seen in the Americas in a generation. On one side stand President Bush and regional allies led by conservative Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, whose army is accused of invading Ecuador last weekend to kill a Marxist guerrilla boss. Against them stand Venezuela's left-wing President Hugo Chavez, whom Uribe accuses of sponsoring those rebels, and friends such as Ecuador's President Rafael Correa...
Personality-based television is all the rage these days, and for good reason. The kind of high-concept, high-execution shows that make the airwaves in the new cable order are often just a little too unrealistic to float. The blanket solution of more than a few programs has been to hire a solid anchor in the form of an excellent lead actor—preferably one who’s had some face time on HBO. Did Michael C. Hall creep you out more than a little on “Six Feet Under”? He?...
...acceptable. In fact, slurping hot noodles is a compliment to the chef. 13) Get your cup of joe before visiting the Forbidden City: the Starbucks there has been removed. 14) Afraid to hawk a loogie in Cambridge? Let it fly in Shanghai. It’s all the rage. 15) In Beijing, the 22nd of each month has been designated “Share Your Seat Day,” a recent initiative to eradicate impolite behavior before the Olympics...
...grams after all, and your hair and nails do not keep growing postmortem) and quotations ("After 30, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death"--Emerson). The result is an edifying, wise, unclassifiable mixture of filial love and Oedipal rage. "I want him to live forever," Shields writes, "and I want him to die tomorrow...