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...Brown and Sarkozy also found little support for their joint plan for levies on imports from countries not respecting similar high climate change rules, with outgoing Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi warning of "an unending spiral of retaliations," if such a system is introduced...
...wholesome dancing and singing in its first half, complete with colorful 80s attire. If you’re prone to siezures, though, you shouldn’t be lulled into a false sense of security. As soon as you see the rapper’s eyes go all spiral-like and the dancers’ colorful clothes turn to black and white (which is a very cool effect, if you don’t value your eyesight) get the hell away from that screen. For once, the duo that makes up Gnarls Barkley—Danger Mouse (Brian Burton...
...northern Iraq, says Mosul's first real plunge into violence came in 2004, after he handed over command of the area. The police force collapsed, and insurgents moved in. "Once the roots go in, then you have a real challenge," Petraeus says of the insurgency. "You just start to spiral downward...
...carrying, we think he was part of a terrorist cell and that it was a well-organized attack." In either case, it is doubtful that Israel will let these killings go unpunished, which will have the consequence of sending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into yet another downward spiral. Both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert condemned the seminary massacre. To avoid riots in Jerusalem, police have banned all Muslim worshippers under the age of 45 from attending the Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount...
...Millhauser’s descriptive meticulousness—a meticulousness that haunts the rest of his stories, without quite managing to be fully polished into brilliance.The first chapter, entitled “Vanishing Acts,” deals in disappearances under some form or another. Odd and mysterious women spiral towards their disappearance with inevitable momentum as a whimsical voice looks back onto the summers of his adolescence. Clara Schuler, a shy and standoffish teenage girl, gains short-lived popularity in the eponymous “Dangerous Laughter.” She is gifted at hysterical laughter, a talent appreciated...