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...Talabani-Barzani alliance has been accused of hoarding the money directed to Kurdistan from both outside investment and Baghdad; critics have also charged it with nepotism, alleging that key political and administrative positions have been handed over to kinfolk or party stalwarts; opponents also say that the budget process lacks transparency. "It's these ideas," says Rebwar Karim Mahmood, a political-science professor at Suleimaniya University, "that opposition parties and groups are using to campaign in the elections." This month KRG prime minister Nechirvan Barzani (Massoud's nephew) launched a process to improve government openness. Qubad Talabani (Jalal...
...other side of the river's broad reach, Kawa's mother sits in mourning under his house, while relatives deny the allegations that he sold skulls. But finally one admits that some of Kawa's kinfolk are nervous, fearing not illness but criminal prosecution and the stigma of being involved in a trade that has already led to two deaths. "Everybody who shared the money out of the skulls is losing their life, too,'' says one of the villagers...
There is a distinction between symbolism and substance--Zora Neale Hurston once said, "All my skinfolk ain't my kinfolk." But whether one likes or loathes the people Bush has chosen to be part of his Administration, he is reaching...
...Other downers: Olympic headlines got hijacked by rioting in Melbourne at the World Economic Forum, where Down Under kinfolk of the Seattle and Philadelphia anarchists were screaming about globalization. I guess Australia had hoped to show the world that it was serious minded as well as fun-loving with a Forum/Olympics one-two punch, but it overreached. Bugger...
...buried deep in the piney woods 50 miles southeast of Dallas. His father lives nearby--Tom can see Bobby's place from his front porch--but the two haven't talked in two years. Not since Tom and his daughter started talking to grand juries and FBI agents, angering kinfolk and reopening old wounds. At one point, when father met son, says Tom, "he jumped on me" and then "started name-calling my kids in the papers." Says Tom: "Right now is not a happy time. I'm the one he seems to be blaming...