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...automotive industry extended its downward spiral - and the Canadian loonie has climbed to nearly US$0.90 from a low of US$0.78 earlier in the year. The hollowing-out of manufacturing in Ontario, combined with a strong currency, means Canada's export sector is taking a beating not seen in decades, with no sign of relief on the horizon...
...Turkic origin, are the single largest ethnic group. But over the years, their culture has undergone a whittling away, amid a steady influx of Han Chinese, who now dominate the local economy. Today, about 70% of Urumqi is Han. The result: resentment and unrest. The past decade has seen a string of bombings by suspected Uighur separatists - the U.S. has classified one organization, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, as a terrorist one - and stern crackdowns by the Chinese authorities. Around last year's Beijing Olympics, an attack in the historic Xinjiang town of Kashgar killed 17 Chinese police...
Britain gets more than its fair share of any heat going, as we have found yet again with the detention of Iranian staff from the British embassy in Tehran. "Englistan" is seen as the most inveterate and craftiest of Iran's enemies. Iran's relations with the rest of Europe, crisis-prone in normal times, are fraying. Tehran would like to get back at the E.U. for postelection protests. On July 6, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that Iranians deserve better leadership. Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, warned that Iran would present a firm fist to "nosy meddlers" in their...
That community now includes a new generation of fans who discovered Michael during these days of retrospection and rushed to download "Thriller" as their ringtone and call up his videos on YouTube. They had their representatives as well, in the form of the Jackson children we had seldom seen before. His own childhood melted by fame, Michael tried obsessively to keep his sons and daughter from being burned by its glare. They didn't go to school; they appeared in public masked and veiled. And so it was almost a shock to see them, with the TV camera behaving cautiously...
...comedy Brüno, fell a calamitous 73% to about $8.4 million. It's as if the well-liked Borat, the character from Sacha Baron Cohen's previous hit, had come to a party with a new guest - "Say hello to my little friend Brüno" - and seen him greeted with a hail of bullets. The Friday-Saturday data show that Brüno was not even the top live-action comedy about a non-American who has sex with a man: it finished behind The Proposal, which has been in theaters three weeks longer. (The Sandra Bullock movie...