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...naturally, is that India's 1.1 billion people deserve to have better life chances than they have had. Its villagers deserve power and clean water, its girls deserve to be able to stay in school beyond the primary grades and its sick deserve a functioning health care system. But second, the world could do with an example of rapid development on a massive scale that is not beholden to an autocratic, closed political system. China proves that such a system can provide better living standards for hundreds of millions, and that simple fact is immeasurably enhancing China's reputation...
...sequel, Hardwicke balked. Summit was pushing hard to get the new movie done fast, to keep up the momentum, and she was burned out. Enter Chris Weitz, who was not, by his own admission, the obvious choice. "There was a reasonable amount of skepticism when I took over the second movie," he says. "I understand that. I directed American Pie. I would be worried too." But after a 2½-hour phone conversation with Meyer - a fan of Weitz's About a Boy - she gave him her blessing...
After weeks of gridlock, Iraq's parliament passed a law that will enable the nation to head to the polls in January for the second time since the constitution was ratified in 2005. The milestone agreement, which was brokered with the help of U.S. and U.N. officials and must be approved by the country's presidential council, paves the way for the scheduled withdrawal of nearly all U.S. troops by August...
Carver had very mixed feelings about all that, especially when he saw the heavy changes Lish made to What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver's second volume of stories, published in 1981. At the last minute he even pleaded with Lish to withdraw the book, then relented, possibly because he felt that Lish was still the gatekeeper at fame's door. But Carver may also have sensed, and maybe even feared, that the darker register Lish summoned from those stories made his voice more distinctive and would secure his reputation--which it did. Before long, honors...
None tougher than finding a second act. The New Zealand family of diaper-clad tot Cory Elliott - whose bobbing to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" has garnered 4.3 million views since January - acted fast by grabbing the domain SingleBabies.com and lining up a greeting-card site as a sponsor. But Cory's dad Chester says he has hopes to branch out beyond Beyoncé. "I'm sure with the moves I've seen [Cory] pull, we'll get something pretty good," Elliott says. "He just always does them when I don't have a camera...