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...agenda during the tour. And earlier this month, al-Maliki's government announced plans to revive a $1.2 billion oil deal with China that had first been inked in 1997 under Saddam Hussein but was nixed after the U.S. invasion. The deal, if completed, would represent a notable snub by al-Maliki toward Washington, which has so far failed to get the Iraqis to pass an oil law that would open the way for U.S. and other international oil companies to gain lucrative contracts in Iraq...
With his belly hiding his belt, with his red suspenders and white beard, Glen Parshall is a dead ringer for Santa Claus, except for the snub-nosed pistol he keeps tucked in his back pocket. Parshall spends his days behind the gun cage of Bargain Pawn, in a roughneck North Las Vegas neighborhood littered with homeless encampments, Catholic charities and pawnshops. It's no Bellagio. But he is a gentle man who treats his customers with respect, whether hoodlum or homeowner. He knows everything there is to know about weapons and is a stickler for the byzantine rules...
...quiet residential street three blocks from Jumeira Beach, you can stroll down to the sand at sunset and dive into the cool Gulf waters, evoking the Dubai of a generation ago when it was a fishing backwater, not the rich beneficiary of our oil addiction. In a conscious snub to Dubai's megahotels, the Maison has only a tiny signpost outside. The 22 rooms don't even have numbers; each is named for a city in South Asia or the Middle East and decorated with furniture collected on the managers' travels around those regions...
Some may even note a snub of sorts. John Paul visited San Giovanni Rotondo in 1987 to mark 100 years since Padre Pio's birth. But Benedict is making his second papal visit to the Puglia region in June, and has left the town off his itinerary both times...
There are certainly other ways to honor Halberstam, as well as other journalists and Crimson alumni who deserve to be honored, as Halberstam’s wife pointed out in an interview. Halberstam himself would not be happy to know that a tribute to his memory would also snub his peers and possibly put a landmark out of business. A lover of tradition according to those who worked with him, he would probably have wanted to leave things the way they...