Word: clericalism
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...trying to expose politicians who rake off the profits, and he recently unearthed three whistle-blowers who claim that Arroyo's husband, son and brother-in-law are involved. The President's aides maintain that the whistle-blowers have been paid to lie, and that Cruz, while an honorable cleric, has been hoodwinked. Cruz defends his actions: "When church people intervene in the so-called political field, it is because even politics is subject to right and wrong, subject to good and evil...
Does he know shorthand? As a cleric urged worshippers at Tehran University last week to "make America angry," SEAN PENN jotted down notes for his real-life column in the San Francisco Chronicle. (And no, it's not a humor column.) Penn, who visited Iraq in 2003 for the Chronicle, was in Iran in advance of the country's elections this week. We invite the Oscar winner to give his all to this whole reporter thing when he returns to the U.S. We would also like to see Ted Koppel in a thriller...
...last night in Iran, I caught the kickoff of the Rafsanjani campaign blitz, appropriately staged on Fereshteh Street, one of Tehran's high-end thoroughfares and a cruising route for the young. The 70-year-old cleric's grinning face was plastered on a new-model Mercedes-Benz, and dandyish young men and pretty young women in snug, bright tunics leaped into traffic to slap stickers on passing cars. Some drivers swerved to avoid them, with expressions that seemed to say, This is all a lie. Others stared, as if they were taking in a strange exhibit...
...outright. Rafsanjani's critics view him as opportunistic, corrupt in financial dealings and lacking guiding principles. "Have you ever heard of Machiavelli?" asks Ibrahim Yazdi, head of the Iran Freedom Movement and a former colleague of Rafsanjani's. "His policy is always to be ambiguous. But he is a cleric, and deep down, he is a conservative...
...suicide bombing last week that killed 20 people, including Kabul's chief of police, during a funeral procession at the Abdul Rab Akhundzada Mosque in Kandahar. The horrific attack was notable not only for its death toll: the funeral was for Maulavi Abdul Fayaz, a prominent anti-Taliban cleric murdered by suspected Taliban gunmen days earlier, and the bomb?a mixture of explosives and ball bearings?was more sophisticated than those used in previous suicide blasts. "This was a very professional effort and way beyond the capability that we have seen previously from the Taliban," says Nick Downie, a security...