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...rehab program, claims the program's success stemmed from its guiding principle that jihadis are victims, rather than villains. "We think these people can be turned into normal human beings and be reintegrated into society," al-Turki told me when I visited Saudi Arabia during the Ramadan fast last summer. (Ironically, it was at the end of Ramadan that al-Shihri "disappeared," his father Jaber told the Saudi Gazzette newspaper...
...have embraced the film's realism. Bible's firm projects that the title will soar north of $150 million before it leaves theaters - making Gran Torino the biggest haul ever for an Eastwood film. By then, it may well pass the box-office totals posted last year by such summer tent poles as Mamma Mia!, The Incredible Hulk and Sex and the City. "Slumdog and The Wrestler are these Cinderella stories that have overshadowed Gran Torino, and yet here is another Cinderella story all its own," Dergarabedian says. "You look at Eastwood, and here he is directing Changeling, which...
...large number of other industries are facing similar problems. The retail industry is the most obvious. Beyond that, airlines are back in trouble. All of the merger plans that carriers were looking at last summer can be dusted off. Traffic is falling sharply as consumers and businesses cut back on travel. In a related sector, the hospitality industry is in it worst period in decades. Some hotels are nearly empty...
...According to a recently signed agreement between the U.S. and Iraq, American forces are to be off the streets of Iraq by this summer and gone entirely from the country by 2011. During his campaign, however, Barack Obama pledged to withdraw all combat forces from Iraq within 16 months of taking office - which would be May 20, 2010 - and so far has not publicly backed away from that promise. Indeed, as Obama prepared to meet with Pentagon officials yesterday, his spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "He will ask for planning to redeploy combat troops within 16 months." Senior officials in Iraq...
...designation allows him to feed runaway teenagers without legal repercussions.But because of his conflicts with the city—which he says is treating him as a “second-class citizen”—he intends to shut down his business and panhandle for the summer.“Why should I be part of a society that doesn’t want me?” O’Brien said. “I decided to stop being part of the solution and [start being] part of the problem.”He added...