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...Neither companies nor government officials want to wait any longer to kick-start production. The Iraqi people are impatient for economic relief, and since more than 90% of Iraq's budget comes from oil revenues, nothing seems to offer more hope than the arrival of Big Oil. "We still have a long way to go to build the country," says Ahmeh Jasim, 56, a real estate agent in Baghdad. "Without these companies it is very hard to have a proper oil sector." For most Iraqis, the drilling cannot begin soon enough...
...This miniature women's movement is a small step toward equality in a society still steeped in conservative, patriarchal values. Japan's government for decades has been dominated by older men, most hailing from the right schools and the right families, who staked out politics as their exclusive domain. In 1997, a former Health Minister offered a glimpse of prevailing attitudes in Tokyo's men's club when he referred to women as "babymaking machines." Still relatively few in number and junior in status, women are unlikely to have much of an immediate impact on the Diet. But their influx...
Critics on the left contend that, if Obama’s new military strategy is not as quickly effective as the president hopes, America may still have a potential quagmire on its hands. In this regard, the drawdown timeline is reassuring. It is important that Obama has established that our goals in Afghanistan do not require long-term troop involvement...
...healing still hasn’t taken place, and there’s been no genuine recognition of the partnership,” Stallings adds...
After halftime, Dyson’s pace was slowed as the star guard went 1-12, but his final stats—24 points, 14 rebounds and nine assists—still demonstrate a clear dominance against Harvard...