All muddled on the central front
The News Review:
- All muddled on the central front
- Nigeria: Ministerial Portfolios - New Faces, Old Fate?
- Geyer’s Ramsay Street party
- BeWrite Books Announce the Release of Magdalena Ball’s Debut…
- Honda to recall 2,310 Accords for fuel pump snag
- M&M duo on serious roll
All muddled on the central front
International Herald Tribune - Jul 24, 2007
If you invade Arab countries, they will come. Al Qaeda has never represented more than 10 percent of the Iraqi resistance, but nowadays you hear that American troops are being deployed in whole provinces to fight just against Al Qaeda. The image of Al Qaeda in Iraq is elevated, and it is almost as if there was no more home-grown resistance, and that nationalism and hatred of foreign occupation no longer existed as a reason to oppose the United States. One suspects this is because the American public isn't going to any longer support a war against Baathists and “dead enders,” as the Iraqi resistance used to be called, but they might be persuaded to stay the course if you brand everyone in the Sunni resistance Qaeda. The suggestion that if we leave Iraq Al Qaeda will take over the country is absurd. Excepting Kurdistan, if anyone is likely to take over Iraq at the end of this fiasco it will be the Shia, whom Al Qaeda and other Sunni extremists view as apostates. The eventual withdrawal of American troops will lessen Al Qaeda's support in Iraq because its whole reason for being there is to resist the American occupation.
Nigeria: Ministerial Portfolios - New Faces, Old Fate?
AllAfrica.com - Jul 24, 2007
He held senators spell bound by is knowledge of the international finance market. He explained that the country's current reserves is a mere N8 billion dollars and not the over N40 billion touted by the CBN. Unlike his predecessors, Usman is a home grown economist not tainted by the philosophies of Breton Woods's institutions which always prescribe deregulation and subsidy withdrawal for developing economies. On return to Nigeria in 1980, Usman led a quite life teaching at the Ahmadu Bello University before starting a banking career with Nigeria Industrial Development Bank. By 1994, he had become the Managing Director of Nal Merchant Bank, a position he held up till 2004 when he was appointed Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria in charge of operations. Indeed the appointment of Usman as finance minister is a master stroke on the part of President Yar'adua. Bode Agusto, the nominee from Lagos shares several professional traits with Usman.
Geyer’s Ramsay Street party
NEWS.com.au - Jul 24, 2007
article-tools –> July 24, 2007 10:00pm IT’S been the platform for home-grown pop stars since Kylie Minogue was a grease monkey, but singer Dean Geyer is close to making the reverse move by signing to the revamped Neighbours cast list. Geyer’s deal was the talk of the soap’s big relaunch party on Monday night, when the loudest cheers came from the cast when Channel 10 announced the show had been commissioned for another three years. Funkier opening credits and a revamped theme song also drew support from viewers too, attracting an audience of more than a million viewers nationally - a sizeable improvement on the low of 700,000 it hit last year. While there was no sign of Scott and Charlene, cast members old and new mingled at the show’s relaunch soiree in Melbourne. Old favourite Kym Valentine was mixing it with her former colleagues ahead of the return of her character Libby Kennedy, while former Campbelltown boy Dan O’Connor carved up the dance floor with the show’s youngest actor Fletcher O’Leary, who spent much of the night on the shoulders of his workmates.
BeWrite Books Announce the Release of Magdalena Ball’s Debut…
PR.com - PR.com (press release) - Jul 24, 2007
In the city she meets Miles, a hip musician busking the streets and playing seedy venues with a rock band. Her new, exciting, dissolute world challenges Marianne’s preconceptions about art and life. Here, in contrast to her prescribed upbringing, she finds anarchic squalor, home grown music and poetry, substance abuse, sex and crushing disappointment and fear; but above all, exhilarating personal freedom. Addictions - of all kinds - and the redemptive power of art and music, love, loss and beauty are all explored in a young girl’s difficult journey from sleep to awakening. Early Reviews:"The dialogue is solid and believable, and the characters live and breathe and scratch themselves. The drug scenes and the horrors of dependence are especially well-rendered. " Chad Hautmann, author of Billie’s Ghost"There is so much beautiful writing here, soaring passages.
Honda to recall 2,310 Accords for fuel pump snag
Economic Times - Jul 24, 2007
While its utility vehicle Versa had a technical glitch
and around 2,000 units were called for check-up in 2005, some units of its
premium hatchback Swift (petrol) also had problems in the boot door lock and the
glass assembly of the front right-side door. The company had asked
its customers to go in for free check-up and offered free replacement of the
defective parts after complaints of door rattling and malfunction in the power
window were made by the customers last year. Home-grown major Tata Motors also
faced problems during the launch of its flagship model Indica, a few years
ago. The perennial problems in the suspension and brakes assembly
forced the company to change spares in a large number of vehicles after consumer
complaints. The problem in the Indica platform prompted Tata Motors to refurbish
and launch a new car under the V2 marquee.
M&M duo on serious roll
Toronto Star - Jul 24, 2007
Tonight, McGowan gets his shot at the Twins. Marcum and McGowan are tight. When the two home-grown Jays were at Syracuse they often talked about what lay ahead for them once they got to The Show. "We thought that we had a chance to come up here and do something with this club if we got a break,” Marcum recalled. "That we could help get them to the next level. " Now that they’re here, they still talk about the challenges, the successes and the failures that they share in the same stage of development. Even though their skills are considerably different, each offered a brief scouting report, M-to-M.