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...development, teaching materials, and scholarships. “The focus of the Italian Ministry and of CID will be mostly on developing countries,” Hausmann said. He said the research will not be limited to developing countries, though they traditionally have been the CID’s main focus. Hausmann also said that the fund would help CID’s financial situation, which was already in a “very strong position” before the gift. Through projects with several groups—including the South African government and the World Bank?...
...fair to Adam Rapp, the film’s main flaws probably result, not from any personal lack of skill, but from the type of narrative itself. The “family reunion”-type film is too often overwhelmed by sugary sentimentality. There is a temptation to present the story as a nicely-wrapped package of vague, universal redemption...
...advocating a new initiative based on an old-fashioned solution to family squabbles: lock them up in a room and don't let them out until they have sorted out their differences. The ambassador told TIME that over the next few days, he hopes to persuade Iraq's main political players to participate in a conference - possibly away from Baghdad, even away from Iraq - where they would be coaxed into arriving at a common political agenda to be administered by an all-party coalition government...
...Khalilzad says the main political hurdle at the moment is the deep division over who should be Iraq's next prime minister. The Shi'ite alliance that won the largest block of seats in the Dec 15 general election has nominated Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who is prime minister of the interim government. But Kurdish, Sunni and secular parties have in recent days mounted a strong challenge, demanding that Jaafari's nomination be withdrawn. They blame Jaafari for the interim government's many failings, including its failure to act quickly and decisively to prevent the sectarian conflagration that followed the Samarra...
...Khalilzad says that once the prime ministership is decided and legislators are sworn in, he will invite leaders of the main parties to a conference, "perhaps here or somewhere else," to help speed up negotiations on a wide range of contentious issues. He and the leaders will "work together day and night until we've finished the job," he says...