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...many Germans, Obama is the embodiment of the American dream and the ideal of a land of opportunity where everyone can make it to the top regardless of race or social background. At a moment when anti-American sentiments have reached unprecedented heights in Germany - a 2007 study by the Pew Research Center found that only 30% of Germans hold a positive view of the U.S. - Obama is seen by many Germans as a symbol of change...
...here's something all Americans - except maybe Exxon shareholders - should be able to agree on, regardless of where they fall on the green spectrum: more renewable power would be a good thing. Greens support alternative energy, like wind or solar, because it helps de-carbonize our energy supply and reduce pollution. Skeptics support it because with rocketing fossil fuel prices - and the U.S.'s increasing dependence on oil imported from less-than-friendly regimes - renewables can offer homegrown, politically safe price relief. It's a win-win in a world that seems ever more zero...
...Some Iraqi politicians have welcomed the visit as an opportunity, regardless of whether Obama wins in November. "I think it's a very important visit," Kurdish MP Tanya Gilly told TIME. "As a Senator he should see the situation on the ground so that he can better understand [Iraq]." Sunni MP Ayad al-Samarai of the National Accordance Front says: "It will be good for him to get to know each leader, hear their thoughts and see how each side is thinking...
...grappling with his sister's dizzying fame. Ciccone calls the book a "catharsis," and given the hurt splashed across its pages, that's easy to believe. But it's hard to muster a ton of sympathy for a guy profiting handsomely from a hatchet job on his own sister - regardless of how miserably she may have treated...
Representatives of the Sadrist movement in Baghdad have complained that their members are being targeted in the operation for political reasons. But the government says its arrests are unbiased and are warranted by criminal activity. The extent to which either claim is accurate is difficult to determine. But regardless of the reason, one thing is clear among Amara's newly fortified police force: the Mahdi Army is being hunted...