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...recent months, Allawi has mounted a campaign to return to power, seeking a new parliamentary alliance of secular, Sunni and Kurdish parties to offset the strength of the dominant Shi'ite coalition behind Maliki. A powerful Washington public-relations firm has also begun to aggressively lobby Senators and Congressmen to back Allawi...
Theroux's strength as a writer and a traveler has always come from his readiness to say and do what few of us would admit to, and it's a safe bet that these gleefully impenitent stories will not be promoted by the American Chamber of Commerce or the Indian Ministry of Tourism. Monkeys are likened to humans in the first sentence of the book, and in one story the only sympathetic creature is a murderous elephant. Pieties old and new are shot down with every politically incorrect maneuver. "If you succumbed to India's vivid temptation to generalize," Theroux...
...part of the system," he says. "That's the reason she's not going to say no to lobbyist money. Her argument would be that she knows how to get things done, that the system may be flawed but she can operate in it. Obama would say his strength is bringing people together to reach a political compromise. My distinction from both of them is I'm not part of that system"-a hard argument for a former Senator and vice-presidential candidate to make. "I don't think you can nice your way through this...
...hope everyone who read the story on Graham will see how he exemplifies Christian belief. His faith is not dogmatic or wrathful, as so many depictions would have it. It is a faith of forgiveness, strength, humility, perseverance and, most important, love. It is a love for mankind from a creator that will not stop loving us. It is with this love, belief and acceptance of Jesus as his Saviour that will he will be led to his eternal home and back to his precious Ruth. Thank you, Rev. Graham, for being our modern-day Paul and fighting the good...
...hope everyone who read the story on Graham will see how he exemplifies Christian belief. His faith is not dogmatic or wrathful, as so many depictions would have it. It is a faith of forgiveness, strength, hu- mility, perseverance and, most important, love. It is a love for mankind from a creator that will not stop loving us. It is with this love, belief and acceptance of Jesus as his Saviour that he will be led to his eternal home and back to his precious Ruth. Thank you, Rev. Graham, for being our modernday Paul and fighting the good fight...