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...Sunnis to turn from the insurgency to participation in the government does not appear to be near. Last week, Iraq's presidential council blocked a proposal for new provincial elections, sending the measure back to the parliament for reconsideration. So U.S. and Iraqi forces in Mosul are left to slog on against the insurgency rooted there without the prospect of a change in the political dynamic that might alter the situation in the way the tribal revolt in Anbar Province against al Qaeda in Iraq did last year...
...turns out to be the work of but a month, not decades - just long enough for the brother and sister to learn the cleansing importance of family solidarity. The notion that terminal illness is mainly an opportunity for elevating lessons on the meaning of life, and not a debilitating slog for all concerned, is proof that Hollywood is still in the unreality business...
...flip side of Sweeney: they're both killers, but he's in it for retribution, she for the sick fun. Bonham Carter, though, is a figure of crafty scorn, and nearly as misanthropic as her demon lover. Ill fortune has ground him down; for her, it's the long slog of surviving among London's lower and criminal classes. The woman's dreamy side surfaces only in her number "By the Sea," where she envisions a retirement idyll. But her dreams take her only so far: Sweeney frowns through the entire reverie. He'll be a part...
...sure, the challenge for Republicans this year is almost as unpleasant to deal with as a clogged drain: an unprecedentedly unpopular President, a slog of a war, and an "excitement deficit" due to the presence of two historic candidates in the Democratic field. ?I definitely think about it," he says, "Everyone recognizes that the challenge is significant." What Diaz brings to the task is not just his wit and partisan fervor, but a taste for hard work. Early in the McCain campaign, when a blizzard shut down flights between New Hampshire and D.C., Diaz rented a car and drove...
...reintroducing community policing and ramping up eduction initiatives. Talk alone won't work in the banlieues. "Project residents aren't impressed with Sarkozy's flash and flair and won't confuse it with hard, lasting results," warns political analyst Dominique Reynié. "He's in for a long, hard slog--or more rioting if nothing changes...