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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Iraq Sun.com http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/45d771c7290844e9/ en-us Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:00:00 -0500 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:00:00 -0500 30 Mexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders. http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203241420/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:59:10 -0500 Iraq Sun.com http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203241420/cs/1/ Recently we learned that the Army and the Marine Corps will become a smaller fighting unit, the Pentagon and top defense officials propose to delay some ships and may even scrap some defense ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248467/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:35:24 -0500 WLOX http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248467/ Do you remember what happened on February 2 last year? On that day, one year ago, Tahrir Square was attacked by thugs on camels, horses and donkeys. These clashes, which lasted for hours and were ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247578/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:20:19 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247578/ about GLW - the need for alternative media In these days of growing media concentration, Green Left Weekly is a proudly independent voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248479/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:20:18 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248479/ 1. UCSF scientists declare war on sugar in food 2. Peyton Manning as 49er makes sense, but not enough 3. Morford: Please do not eat this 4. North Bay girl died of 'date rape' drug ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247599/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:59:02 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247599/ It says something about the brazen attitude of American politicians that Congress enacted a measure to create a program that was impossible to implement - and named it the CLASS Act. CLASS stands ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247600/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:58:56 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247600/ France can't seem to decide how quickly it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on unarmed French soldiers, killing four and wounding 15. Over the ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247601/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:58:49 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247601/ Washington state is promenading down a controversial aisle that's familiar to Californians after its Senate approved a bill last week legalizing same-sex marriage. The lower house and the ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248471/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:58 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248471/ There has been remarkably little public debate in the U.S. about drone strikes, which have killed at least 1,300 people in Pakistan alone since President Obama came to ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248472/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:53 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248472/ Vatican Council in 1965, conservative and liberal Roman Catholics have been deeply divided over church teachings, many of them concerning marriage and sexual matters. Those who are more conservative ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248473/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:46 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248473/ In a file picture taken on June 2, 1953 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II accompanied by Prince Philip waves to the crowd after being crowned during her coronation at Westminter Abbey in ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248474/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:42 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248474/ The Smoking Deaths billboard in West L.A. keeps a running tally of annual smoking deaths. Every year, on Dec. 31, a crowd gathers as the death-toll counter resets to ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248478/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:37 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248478/ In trying to crack down on the homeless and criminals, L.A.'s City Council is limiting the public's right to the boardwalk at certain hours. It amounts to a curfew, and it strikes us as ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248477/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:34 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248477/ GOP presidential candidates were charging that "elites" have launched "a war against religion," a federal court in Rhode Island ordered a public school to remove a prayer mounted ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248475/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:26 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248475/ Contributed by : Carol Gould First published in August 2011 ( still no apology from Raoul's Cafe four months on) London I went to Raoul's deli in Clifton Rd W9 at 4pm on Friday 29 ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247597/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:38:04 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247597/ Contributed by : Carol Gould It is now four years since I first wrote the following piece. A doctor in Arizona, Robert Kuske, whom I consulted by telephone told me in August 2010 that because I ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247598/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:38:01 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247598/ President Barack Obama and every other American who believes that the Department of Defense has become oversized in the past 11 years of unremitting warfare must pay close attention as the Pentagon ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248470/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:37:40 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248470/ Come September, it could be really easy to find a space at 18 of the Port Authority's park-n-ride lots. And that's bad news. The Port Authority has scheduled the closing of 2,900 of its ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248469/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:37:39 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248469/ "Mary, Mary, quite contrary," asks a children's rhyme, "how does your garden grow?" When contrary Mary grows up and becomes a real gardening enthusiast, she will find that ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248468/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:37:39 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248468/ is alive and well in contemporary Cajamarca, in the form of the US-based Newmont mining corporation, an outfit with a slick PR machine and a very dirty environmental and human rights track record. ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246015/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:32 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246015/ United States' oil giant ExxonMobil had the largest profits of the "big five" oil companies last year, raking in US$41.1 billion. This is a 35% jump from the year before. Here are a ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246924/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:31 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246924/ A prison in Western Sahara. Laayoune is the largest settlement in Western Sahara territory, which has been occupied by Morocco since 1975. The Sahrawi people continue to demand independence after ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246206/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:30 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246206/ The Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in Western democracies. This is Assange's final appeal against his extradition ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247367/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:29 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247367/ Anti-austerity protest in Barcelona, January 28. A vast icy pool of Siberian air, the coldest in 50 years, settled over all Europe in late January. At least 150 people without shelter were killed. ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246169/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:27 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246169/ By Bianca Mugenyi & Yves Engler RED Publishing & Fernwood Publishing 2011, 259 pages, $27.95 (pb) The car, say Canadian authors Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler who took a bus ride across ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247368/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:26 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247368/ A 48-hour strike on October 19-20 was the biggest since the end of the Greek dictatorship in 1974. Over October 19-20 there was a general strike in Greece. The overwhelming majority of Greek workers ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246246/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:24 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246246/ – Oct. 7, 2011 But veiled contempt for Mormonism is becoming too regular of a feature on the opinion pages of the Times which published an incomprehensible screed against the faith by scholar ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246110/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:33 -0500 Deseret News http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246110/ WASHINGTON — Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246112/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:29 -0500 Deseret News http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246112/ On Feb. 1, a federal court near Seattle, Wash., heard closing arguments in a case about the right of conscience, a fundamental American principle (Stormans, Inc. v. Selecky). That right is the ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246111/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:26 -0500 Deseret News http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246111/ – Feb. 8, 2011 Two powerful forces are pushing crude oil prices up. First, the administration is restricting production of oil through its energy policy, in which it obstructs efforts to ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246115/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:14 -0500 Deseret News http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246115/ The current Republican debates have become the latest episode of "Presidential Apprentice, Debating With the Candidates," or "Survivor of D.C." We wait to see who has the most ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246117/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:06 -0500 Deseret News http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246117/ For the first time in history, Utah has candidates running in four different congressional districts. Most of the interest is in the wide-open contests for the GOP nominations in the 2nd and 4th ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246118/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:24:59 -0500 Deseret News http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246118/ GREEN BAY, Wis. — Gasoline prices rose sharply in 2008 and again in 2011, largely as a consequence of rising global demand and limited supply. People's reactions were mixed. Some called ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246119/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:24:55 -0500 Deseret News http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246119/ (Oregon Coast) – Every time a major death incident happens along the Oregon coast, a tsunami of media outlets cover not just the tragedy itself but also reminders of beach safety. This works ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246762/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:22:19 -0500 Beach Connection http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246762/ In the debate over how to fund a Vikings stadium, Mayor Chris Coleman took a strong stand for St. Paul last week. He's right to have done so. An eventual solution won't be a good one if ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247365/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:49:14 -0500 Pioneer Press http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247365/ Mark Clayton Southers has been working on "The Gammage Project" for two years and directing the play through rehearsals as it readies for a Thursday opening. There was a moment when he let ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247366/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:45:38 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247366/ a function on January 21. Below is his speech at the election launch. * * * Thank you friends and comrades for turning out in such good numbers at a difficult time of the year given holidays and ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203244738/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:38:57 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203244738/ A rgentina once again is harassing the British-ruled Falkland Islands 500 miles off its southern coast, islands Argentine soldiers seized in 1982 and from which the British ejected them in a ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245900/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:08:34 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245900/ BOSTON -- TD Garden is not the most hospitable venue in the NHL. The team that resides there is big, tough and talented, and fans can be pretty hostile at times. Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245895/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:55:26 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245895/ Unseasonably warm weather across the Midwest and Northeast this winter has dealt a blow to local and regional resorts for the first half of the snowsports season, delivering less natural snow and ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245894/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:55:25 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245894/ On-again, off-again relationships can be so uncomfortable for friends and associates of the partners, a condition that is especially true when there's been acrimony, talk of betrayal, fights ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245893/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:55:24 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245893/ It's been too long since the phrases "unemployment rate" and "cautious optimism" could be found in the same sentence. That changed Friday with news that the nation's ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245896/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:55:23 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245896/ The good news is that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation has seen the error of its way and reversed its plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. The bad news is how it lost sight of ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245897/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:55:21 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245897/ "In retrospect,'' Bill DeWeese told me over dinner last June, "I should have been more administratively punctilious.'' That's the way Mr. DeWeese always has ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245899/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:55:20 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245899/ "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness," said Charles Dickens (1812-1870) in one of the most celebrated passages in ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245898/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:55:18 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245898/ Duquesne snapped a 14-game losing streak against Richmond Saturday night, beating the Spiders 81-72 in the Chuck Cooper Classic at the A.J. Palumbo Center. Duquesne dominated the boards 39-31, shot ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203244588/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:09:13 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203244588/ Terrible crimes were committed during and after Spain's 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured and murdered. Now, one of ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203244921/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:59:00 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203244921/ In a big win for environmentalists and the planet, the administration of United States President Barack Obama announced on January 20 that it would deny a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline to ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242244/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:50 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242244/ Participants in the January 14-15 anti-nuclear conference in Tokyo. Photo by John Tutty. Five anti-nuclear activists travelled from Australia to attend the Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242022/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:49 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242022/ . That is surely a clue that the people Abbott directed his "unAustralian" jibe at were never exactly aspiring to win any "fair dinkum Aussie" award. These are people who have ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243110/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:49 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243110/ Spain ’s 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured and murdered. Now, one of Spain’s top investigating ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242216/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:35:13 -0500 New York Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242216/ IN the most recent Gallup poll on abortion, as many Americans described themselves as pro-life as called themselves pro-choice. A combined 58 percent of Americans stated that abortion should either ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248466/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:29:00 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248466/ INDIANAPOLIS -- The road for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2012, selected here Saturday and inducted in Canton, Ohio, this summer, must go through Pittsburgh. Of the six new Hall of ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243109/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:14:42 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243109/ Palo Alto, Calif. THE other day, while I was rummaging through a stack of oldish articles on the future of the Internet, an obscure little essay from 1998 - published, of all places, on a Web s http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243108/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:12:45 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243108/ As the world has grown smaller while our passion for novelty has expanded, our curiosity about different cultures, particularly those relatively untouched by what we deem "civilisation", ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203240284/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:41:33 -0500 The Guardian http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203240284/ On Tuesday, if history is any guide, several tens of thousands of Minnesotans will join others who are more or less like-minded politically for a biennial event known as the precinct caucus. ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238728/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:41 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238728/ Last week they finally came -- Rick Santorum to Luverne, Mitt Romney to Eagan, and Ron Paul to Rochester, Chanhassen and Arden Hills. Anybody sighted a Newt? The Republican presidential nomination ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238727/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:38 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238727/ Thorough reform of the way Minnesota taxes businesses is at least a year away at the State Capitol. But for understandable economic and election-year reasons, the political itch is intensifying to ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238729/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:34 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238729/ The Legislature's careful and limited use of private meetings to create safe space and the need for "sunshine" are not irreconcilable. We must have both. Sunshine should be the ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238730/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:29 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238730/ The ugly partisanship displayed by Senate Republicans during the first days of this year's legislative session was extremely disappointing. It belied their professed desire to work ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238731/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:25 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238731/ It was in the 1970s, and I was 20 years old. On a cold November night, my friend and I were walking to our car in an adjacent parking lot in our small hometown in Minnesota, when a man jumped us ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238732/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:20 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238732/ Fabio Capello , noted fan of opera, and collector of art, will be pondering the question of team spirit. He'll think of Steven Gerrard, who punched a disc jockey in the face as the man walked ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238968/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:20:48 -0500 The Guardian http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238968/ The writers Donald Antrim, Chad Harbach and Susan Orlean - three of the millions who will watch the Super Bowl today - chat about the appeal of sports. (This online conversation has been edited for ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239738/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:18:04 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239738/ A BATTLE between a class of fourth graders and a major movie studio would seem an unequal fight. http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238626/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:43:28 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238626/ Moscow http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238891/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:43:15 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238891/ WASHINGTON http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239897/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:42:46 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239897/ During an artillery barrage last Nov. 11, Yemeni security forces killed 13 civilians in the city of Taizz. One of them was a patient at al-Rawdha Hospital, which mortar rounds and tank fire struck ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238913/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:29:05 -0500 Human Rights Watch http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238913/ Should capital gains and dividends be treated like ordinary income? Readers discuss the pros and cons of tax preferences. http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239896/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:30:39 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239896/ THE tale of an exceptional scholar-athlete torn between playing his final football game and competing for a Rhodes scholarship gave way to a darker story in The Times recently - one involving ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239694/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:28:31 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239694/ LAST week, Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at least $75 billion. But unlike other big-ticket ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239677/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:27:06 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239677/ From book publishers like Macmillan to Hollywood studios like Disney, producers of content are deeply frustrated by the defeat of their efforts to curb online piracy in Congress last month. The bill ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238401/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:02:03 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238401/ It is only a first step toward healing the economy's biggest open wound, but President Obama's new mortgage refinancing plan could provide considerable relief for millions of homeowners shackled to ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238198/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:00:18 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238198/ THE word "dyslexia" evokes painful struggles with reading, and indeed this learning disability causes much difficulty for the estimated 15 percent of Americans affected by it. Since the phenomenon ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238467/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:59:24 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238467/ Attorneys representing a man who was sentenced to death more than two decades ago in the murder of a waitress in Fayette County are trying to stop prosecutors from retrying the defendant. A federal ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203236874/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:17:39 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203236874/ MORE people live alone than at any other time in history. In prosperous American cities - Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Minneapolis - 40 percent or more of all households contain a ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203236627/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:50:43 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203236627/ A Cambria County man driving on the wrong side of the road was killed overnight in a head-on collision, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Brian Polk, 34, of Salix was driving a minivan south ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235031/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:59:40 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235031/ Melissa Gilbert basically grew up on television. For 10 years she played Half Pint, the nickname for her character Laura Ingalls Wilder on the long-running "Little House on the Prairie" ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235033/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:59:39 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235033/ Black Deaths in Custody Watch Group meeting. Wed Mar 28, 5.30pm, Link Up Queensland Aboriginal Corporation Centre 1/18 Scott Street, Parramatta Park. Ph 4041 ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233155/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:17:42 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233155/ Loser-Winner: Groundhog Day is a time for silliness in Punxsutawney, Pa., which is pretty much the point of the whole Punxsutawney Phil shtick each year. The losers in this case are the news ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231486/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:10 -0500 Deseret News http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231486/ Do city elections matter? Are the voices of the people really heard? We are about to find out. On Jan. 3, 2012, three council members were sworn in to the Salt Lake City government, two new and one ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231487/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:06 -0500 Deseret News http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231487/ No one should be surprised that the Tin Man has a tin ear. http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233143/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:57:09 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233143/ The Duquesne City School District is in limbo, and state education officials owe its taxpayers, parents, students and employees an explanation -- and a plan. It's been more than three months ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233150/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:31 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233150/ Somalia is a basket case on a continent with more than its share of misery. Other African countries riven by problems have governments that more or less control their territories, however badly they ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233151/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:30 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233151/ Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and likely Democratic nominee Elizabeth Warren don't see eye to eye on much, but they agree it would be good to discourage money used by special interests to ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233152/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:29 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233152/ Trouble prompted by the Arab Spring has been stirring in Syria for 10 months now. The government of President Bashar al-Assad has been under siege, pretty much across the country of 21 million, ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233154/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:28 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233154/ In an environment where nepotism barely raises an eyebrow, the actions of Allegheny County President Judge Donna Jo McDaniel are all the more eye-popping because they go so far beyond routine, ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233153/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:28 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233153/ How America made its children crazy By Spengler Now we know that computers don't help children learn and that drugs don't help them concentrate, because the establishment mandarins who ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233146/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:12:17 -0500 Asia Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233146/ Bernanke merits a rant Commentary and weekly watch by Doug NolandIt has been labeled an intellectual exercise and ridiculed as "intelligentsia". I'll stick defiantly to the view ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233148/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:12:16 -0500 Asia Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233148/ What we said: "The Susan G. Komen foundation has made a highly regrettable - and transparently political - decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. Komen should reverse its ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228350/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:16:30 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228350/ 49ers will go forward with their plan for a new stadium in Santa Clara. Barring a major setback - such as construction delays, or a legal ruling against changes from the deal Santa Clara voters ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228352/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:16:23 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228352/ "UCSF scientists take bitter view of sugar in food" (Feb. 2): War on sugar is not a solution to America's health problems. Sugar comes in many different forms (honey, fruit juice, ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228353/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:16:09 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228353/ LONDON -- Memo to Brazil: That idea of putting up a giant Jesus statue in a London park to promote the 2016 Olympic Games is not going over well. Brazil's tourist board has floated the notion ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231140/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:49:03 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231140/ INDIANAPOLIS -- Three decades after his Coke commercial won advertising's version of the Oscar, Joe Greene and his No. 75 Steelers jersey make a comeback in another Super Bowl spot on ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231139/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:49:02 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231139/ When legalized casino gambling was being pushed in Pennsylvania, one of its selling points was sizable tax relief for property owners. But in gambling you put your money down and take your chance -- ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231141/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:49:01 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231141/ The African Union, by not being able to agree on a secretary general, has showed new cracks in continental unity. The AU was formed 10 years ago to try to cure some of the flaws in the old ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231142/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:49:00 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231142/ To the Editor: "What's He Got to Hide?," by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, Jan. 29), is intended to incite opposition to the government of Ethiopia, when it would be far better to assist the gove http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231691/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:23:03 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231691/ Reagan Resolve'; concisely outlines his major principles and actions so today’s policymakers can take a page from it.Let’s begin with a contrast. When ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227298/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:26 -0500 Washington Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227298/ Ronald Reagan , who would have turned 101 on Feb. 6, no doubt would have been amused by the number and ideological diversity of people claiming some part of the Reagan ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227299/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:25 -0500 Washington Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227299/ Amazon pulled out, leaving the state poorer for its greed. Even a big state like California wasn’t able to get away with this. ';The rich'; might ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227311/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:08 -0500 Washington Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227311/ Ronald Reagan to have been one of the great presidents of the 20th century - indeed, one of the greatest of all time. Even professors are coming around. Though they’re not as enthusiastic as ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227300/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:08 -0500 Washington Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227300/