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...seems no more tyrannical than a demotivated schoolteacher, an impression underscored by his toneless speaking style. But there's no denying that his stature has increased. "I didn't know he had it in him," says Ridha Jawad Taki, a Shi'ite parliamentarian who has known Maliki since the 1980s, when both lived in Syria. "He has become self-assured, and very decisive." Those qualities were burnished in November, when Maliki overcame considerable opposition within Iraq's parliament to sign an agreement with the U.S. that requires the withdrawal of American combat troops from most urban areas this summer...
...Rubik's Cube certainly makes a good austerity toy: it can take years to solve and it's virtually indestructible - apart from the easily removed colored stickers. (Not that anyone ever cheated by swapping the stickers, of course.) The Cube is also benefiting from nostalgia for the 1980s, when many parents of today's kids first encountered the toy. "In the crazy times that we live in, adults are looking for those things that remind them of happier times," says David Niggli, FAO Schwarz's president and chief merchandising officer. "I've seen 40year-olds and 8-year-olds stop...
...will shrink more this year, estimates the E.U. Brits have begun comparing themselves to Iceland, another north Atlantic island buffeted by financial turmoil. When squatters were discovered living in two $20 million Park Lane mansions, it was taken as a powerful reminder of the recessions of the 1970s and 1980s. "There will be lots more people like me in the coming months," said one of the squatters. Britain's opposition Conservative Party says things could get so bad that the country might have to go, cap in hand, to the International Monetary Fund...
...writers, scholars and artists - a number that has since grown to several thousand. Then he released a series of essays through Radio Free Asia that questioned the accomplishments of the Party. In those essays, Bao argued that the Communist Party's motivations for reforming the economy in the early 1980s after the devastation of the Cultural Revolution were not entirely pure. "Even though he didn't care much for economics and didn't understand the market, Deng Xiaoping supported economic reforms with all his might," Bao said. "However, his goal was still to save the Party, and for that reason...
...Islam. Islam, a schoolteacher in Matta, Pakistan, refused to comply when local Taliban leaders demanded that he hike up his trousers to expose his ankles in the manner of the Prophet Muhammad. The teacher knew Muslim teachings and had earned jihadist stripes fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Their edict was wrong, Islam told the Taliban enforcers; no such thing had been demanded even by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in the '90s. The scuffle that resulted left Islam's body hanging in the town square. To drive home their warning to the locals, the militants also shot...