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...decade my father lived alone while supporting his wife and children, who left Korea to pursue a more globally competitive education abroad. Although it was my father who stayed behind, I believe the emotional hardship for any divided family is similar. Understanding the sacrifices of my parents was a strong motivation to work hard at school, but relating to my father on a personal level after many years apart was hard work. Now I see that the conflict derived from a generation and culture gap, and he feared having a limited participation in my upbringing, so he felt...
...lame duck. The Executive Branch is better built to handle such talks, and the incoming Obama Administration is looking at all options: using money from the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, which many Democrats have been unsuccessfully arguing for; taking funds from the Federal Reserve; or tapping emergency money similar to the stabilization fund Treasury used in the 1994 Mexico bailout...
...ability to win over not just the lawmakers but also the public. As Congress was debating whether to bail out Wall Street, public opinion began to turn when folks lost half their 401(k) investments practically overnight. Though the failure of just one of the Big Three could have similar repercussions on the stock market, the public is not feeling the pressure just yet to support such a move. A recent USA Today/Gallup poll found that 47% of Americans believe that providing relief to the industry is not very important...
...provinces did not spare the semiautonomous three-province Kurdish region in the north. It has not only stoked tensions with the independence-minded Kurds but has also drawn fire from his Shi'ite coalition allies in the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, who want to set up a similar semiautonomous region in the Shi'ite south. On Monday, the Kurdish regional government strongly condemned Maliki's governance, basically equating it to Saddam Hussein's. Maliki wants to "take the people of Iraq back to a period we are desperately trying to get beyond," the statement read. "A period where the excessive...
...scattered pockets of space and light - either candle-lit shrines left by the public in vigil or camera crews surrounded by the vocal and vociferous crowd. They called for an inchoate assortment of things: the heads of bungling politicians, the end of taxes, the bombing of Pakistan. Similar rallies took place in all of India's major cities, echoing solidarity and outrage. "We're all Mumbaikars now," was a common refrain on both posters and lips...