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2 | Beirut March 14 Madness Lebanon's ruling March 14 alliance won a surprise majority in the country's hotly contested June 7 parliamentary elections, upsetting an opposition coalition led by the Shi'ite paramilitary group Hizballah. The pro-West, anti-Syria alliance's victory was lauded by the U.S...
Not even generosity is recession-proof. According to Giving USA Foundation, charitable giving dropped 5.7% in inflation-adjusted dollars last year--the worst plunge in 50 years. Given the roller-coaster stock market and rising unemployment, however, some experts expressed surprise that the fall wasn't more precipitous.
Mariah Hilgart is happy, however, just to have a job right now. Although she has spent some time working with her mother at a tanning salon, the 15-year-old in Park Falls, Wis., was able to secure her first "real job" through a workforce development program in the northwestern...
The first big problem emerged immediately after Benedict's surprise gesture of rapprochement when it turned out that one of the four bishops brought back into the fold, British-born Richard Williamson, was a vocal Holocaust denier. That required weeks of Vatican damage control. But another clash is brewing that...
And, like a recurring nightmare, the current uprising has caught U.S. policymakers by surprise.