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...which won 70 seats), that combination alone would put him just four seats shy of a majority - a difference he could easily make up by resuming his alliance with the Kurdish bloc, which garnered 43 seats. It may not be that easy, of course, because both the key element of the INA - the supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr - and the Kurdish leadership have been antagonized by al-Maliki's leadership and would prefer to see him gone. They could yet try and make replacing al-Maliki a key condition for joining a coalition with his political bloc. (See a TIME...
...START reintroduced nuclear parity as a central element of U.S. and Russian strategic relations," says Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists. "Both countries have to be careful that it doesn't lock them into strategic postures that are too dependent on the other side...
...ought to be in his element. The 55-year-old Chinese writer (Mo Yan is a pen name, Guan Moye his real one) is in his hometown of Gaomi, Shandong province, a place he has described as the wellspring of his creativity. It's also the location of most of his vivid, at times brilliant, novels. Local Communist Party officials are honoring the town's famous son with a lavish lunch, but as the dishes are served - three kinds of fish, oysters, sea cucumber - the author looks increasingly surprised. "I had no idea that Gaomi had a restaurant of such...
...their aimless excursion very gripping, this curiosity regarding Brett’s past is about the only thing driving the plot forward at times. There’s no immediate answer among the flashbacks, though a love story begins to unfold in there, eventually emerging as the foremost narrative element of the film...
...hide away from the other: a kind of increase of influence of one country in a border state is automatically perceived by the other as a loss in its own leverage. It creates a sense of a zero-sum game, which will be a hugely important and defining element in this relationship going forward...