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...Merga, Badr corps. Most Iraqis have two ID's, one [so they can pass for Shi'ite] and one [so they can pass for Sunni]." The checkpoints serve at least one purpose, says Sheikh Ali, the Shi'ite CLC Godfather of Saha market: the guards burn the neighborhood's trash at night to keep warm. "The goats are starting to complain about that," he jokes...
...twisted prank. The movie says we're all rotten and weak for watching the very form of lurid stuff it put on the screen. But the people behind the film won't take responsibility for their artistic crimes. They say they're not culpable for manufacturing and marketing this trash. No, we are for paying...
...fitting that the man who sparked the current predicament, Mastella, hails from the region of Campania, home to a wretched public-works emergency - trash has gone uncollected for weeks. And that is not the only reminder that distracted political leadership has direct consequences on people's lives. Another is the fate of a bill crafted by the Ministry of Social Affairs setting badly needed national standards for long-term elderly and disabled care. Raffaele Tangorra, a top technical official in the Ministry, would have expected no opposition to this nonpartisan proposal were it pushed through Parliament, as planned, this spring...
...number of refugees is expected to rise as the political tumult continues in Kenya. Nairobi's slum Mathare could have passed for a war zone on Thursday. Ambulances roared through trash-littered streets, as hundreds of protestors faced off with police. Between makeshift roadblocks, residents dodged flying stones, tear gas and live bullets. "We are after peace, but only peace with solidarity!" shouted a young man armed with a machete. Behind him, the streets teemed with crowds of people and abandoned bullet-scarred shacks. But voicing the opinion of many violence-weary Kenyans, Pamela Atieno complained of the riots...
...Last Man (which publishes its 60th and last issue at the end of this month), who survives a plague that kills only men?the women are fine. Even Disney is doing it: Wall*E, a Pixar film that opens in June, is about the last robot on an empty, trash-strewn future earth. "The idea of being the last person on earth is pretty universal," says Francis Lawrence, who directed I Am Legend. "There's not anybody who hasn't imagined it, either as wish fulfillment or nightmare...