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...politics into turmoil, raising the frightening prospect of a return to the sectarian war that nearly tore the country apart in 2006-07. Those fears have abated somewhat, but Ubaidi's murder continues to dominate the headlines. "Iranian politics is interesting, but for us, it is a sideshow," says Amr Fayad, a political analyst in Baghdad. "We are worried about our own politics." (See pictures of life returning to Iraq's streets...
...company on Twitter. That allows the individual consumer to choose which firms he is willing to get messages directly from. It may not be surprising that "new age" brands like Whole Foods and JetBlue have large followings and older and much larger brands like Kroger (KR) and American Airlines (AMR) do not. Whole Foods and JetBlue have successfully marketed themselves as being "customer-centric" - the kind of companies that would not misuse the access to a customer's private Twitter information. (Read Ashton Kutcher's take on why the Twitter founders made the TIME...
...President Obama sees the large and painful rift that developed between the U.S. and the Muslim world during the Bush presidency as damaging to the world and as a threat to American security," says Hady Amr, director of the Brookings Center in Doha, Qatar. "Obama seeks to be a transformative figure in healing the rift between the U.S. and the Muslim world and is harnessing his personal history - as an America born to an immigrant Muslim father from one part of the world, who spent part of his childhood growing up in another part of the Muslim world...
...Amr al-Dabbagh has no doubt that if he builds it, they will come. The governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) is one of the forces behind King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), a $27 billion development rising out of the desert 62 miles (100 km) north of Jeddah, and he can already envision the arrival of its first residents. "It won't be long before it starts taking shape," he says...
...Amr al-Dabbagh has no doubt that if he builds it, they will come. The governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) is one of the brains behind King Abdullah Economic City, a $27 billion development rising out of the desert 100 km north of Jeddah, and he can already envision the arrival of its first residents. "It won't be long before it starts taking shape," he says, of the city that, when completed 20 years from now, will be roughly the size of Washington, D.C., with a population of more than 1.5 million...