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...stake is the control of disputed territories. Kurds say they are reclaiming areas like the oil-rich city of Kirkuk that was theirs until Saddam Hussein forcibly removed them from it. Arabs say the land wasn't Kurdish to begin with. In the meantime, Kurdish peshmerga militia forces, which operate independently of Baghdad and answer to Kurdistan's regional government, have steadily pushed south of their United Nations-delineated border into contested zones...
...connections and thinking about creativity in innovative ways with renewed enthusiasm.“My goal is to connect things that are already in existence,” Clapp says. “Harvard is not an arts-poor community; it is an arts poorly-connected community. There are rich conversations happening everywhere. I just want to have these conversations together...
...sporadic bursts, and every drum fill thrashes the camera like an earthquake. The inspired music is matched by a truly inspired story: Lil’ Wayne used to have a high school crush who, in an unprecedented move, refused his advances. Well now Lil’ Wayne is rich and famous and she’s been left by her boyfriend to raise their child alone. The child is probably ugly. So years later, after “Tha Carter” tops the charts and Lil’ Wayne sweeps the Grammy’s, she shows...
...presence of a dilapidated van, there is a lot we’ve seen already. Arkin’s grandfather character appears to have risen from the dead to star in yet another film, although this time it is he and not Greg Kinnear who is hooked on get-rich-quick schemes. Even the storyline follows the same arc as its predecessor. So which film deserves the title of “Sunshine?”Surprisingly, the parallels between the two films work. Big Beach may be a one-trick pony, but the trick is excellent...
Legislation to regulate the country's rich oil resources and distribute its wealth has been stalled in parliament for two years due to Arab-Kurd feuds. Meanwhile, competition is heating up among the country's varied religious and ethnic groups for power, influence and resources - and within those groups as well...