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...vote had been delayed for weeks over the apparently parochial issue of electoral lists for the contested northern city of Kirkuk. Oil-rich Kirkuk, claimed by Iraq's Kurds as an integral part of their autonomous semistate but administered by the Arab-dominated government in Baghdad, has long been a potential flash point in the uneasy relationship between the Kurdish autonomous region and Baghdad. Sunday's compromise, which allows recent Kurdish returnees (much of the city's Kurdish population had been expelled by Saddam Hussein, precisely to cement Arab control there) to vote in Kirkuk but gives parliament the authority...
...country's intractable economic problems. Among other popular proposals, the new government, led by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, vowed to provide more government assistance for families to promote consumer spending while simultaneously taming the country's ballooning debt, which at nearly 200% of GDP is the highest among rich nations...
...Christmas Carol” feel fully human while still retaining a measure of animated charm. Though scenes without supernatural entities are sometimes a little too dark to fully appreciate the detailed animation, especially while wearing the polarized 3-D glasses, the majority of the film is rich and vibrant in its depiction of the bustling streets of wintertime London and the surrounding countryside...
...think it’s had a tremendous impact. Coming from a minority religious culture that emphasizes the value of the ordinary person and the everyday life and doesn’t celebrate being rich and famous has a lot to do with my orientation historically. Mormon women have had a very colorful and controversial history and that is a lot of what has interested...
Joel Osteen made it big in the boom times, wooing millions with the message that, as he says, "God wants you to have a big life" - or, as his critics put it, God wants you to be rich. When the financial crisis hit, some analysts blamed preachers of the so-called Prosperity Gospel for helping bring it on - and predicted that their churches' popularity would tank along with parishioners' portfolios. But Osteen, at least, is going strong: donations at Lakewood Church in Houston, where he is senior pastor, are steady. Attendance is up 10%. He preached to a sold...