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...else face a new round of sanctions. But Iran has hardly been in an accommodating mood. A week ago it wrote to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to reveal that it was building a uranium-enrichment facility in the mountains near Qom. (Obama announced the existence of the hitherto secret facility four days later, and U.S. officials claimed that Tehran had preempted him only because it was aware that it had been caught red-handed.) (See pictures of people around the world protesting Iran's election...
...sequel to Raekwon’s 1995 game-changer “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…”—was initially announced in 2005, but production and label issues left the work dangling in limbo, its public release put on a hitherto apparently interminable hold.But the day for Wu-heads has finally come, and Raekwon doesn’t disappoint. “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II” is eminently satisfying, unabashedly raw, and on par with the best solo albums by any member of Wu-Tang...
...looking for the late-summer special-effects action fantasy with big franchise potential, forget about G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. (You already forgot? Fine.) Instead, proceed directly to District 9, a grimy little scare-fi thriller from South Africa, hitherto unknown as a production center for really cool movies. The picture bears the imprimatur of another gifted outsider, Peter Jackson, who with The Lord of the Rings made New Zealand his own little Hollywood. But the real star is director and co-writer Neill Blomkamp, 29, who proves with his first feature that no genre is so tarnished...
...easier to use than a conventional stopper - no struggling to hold the heavy bottle as you twist, no worrying that you'll take someone's eye out with the cork - but it still delivers that satisfying pop upon opening. It's a minirevolution in a region hitherto unswayed by the widespread embrace of screw caps and other deviations from cork closures...
...ballot box might prove a much needed reminder to the ANC that it is there to serve the people, and not the other way around. In addition, a weakening of the ANC and a strengthening of the opposition would help redress the one-party domination that has hitherto undermined Africa's proudest democracy. Lekota says that this election may be the "maturing" of South Africa's democracy...