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...quite - but the al-Qaeda leader's sympathizers should be more than satisfied with the results of 38 municipal contests held Thursday, the first round in a series of three such elections around the country. Islamic conservatives outpolled nearly 650 other candidates - including contenders with powerful tribal links and businessmen who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars - for all seven seats up for grabs on the Riyadh city council. They were better organized, emphasizing their technocratic skills while having the word spread via sms cell-phone messages and popular Islamic Internet sites. And they had the key backing of militant...
...this racial dynamic that distinguishes this film from the cookie-cutter romantic comedies that often color the Valentine’s Day cinematic slate. Successful Caucasian businessmen pay Hitch, the only African-American in the film, large sums of money to be tutored on wooing beautiful Caucasian women...
...teaching. Clearly, much of the negative attention given to the profession is a result of the low pay, and unfortunately there isn’t much Harvard can do about that. The school can, however, work to institute as much support for budding teachers as there is for budding businessmen...
...after the formation of a new government last October, the result of two years of talks in neighboring Kenya between warlords and Somali clan elders. The new leaders promised it would bring security and prosperity to their war-torn East African country and rein in the unelected cadres of businessmen and Islamic fundamentalists exploiting the chaos to extend their power bases. So far, though, President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and his government, led by Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi, haven't even made it home. Holed up in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, many of the new Somali M.P.s - and even...
...runs more than 100 known spies under official cover in the U.S., senior U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement officials say. And those are just the more easily spotted spies working under the classic guise of diplomat. An unknown number of so-called NOCs--who work under nonofficial cover as businessmen and -women, journalists or academics--undoubtedly expand the Russian spy force. "They're baaaaack," says a former senior U.S. intelligence official who worked against Moscow during the cold war. "They're busy as hell, but I don't think we've really got what it is that they're doing...