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...election spot shows a masked wrestler fighting drug traffickers and promising to crack down on cartels. Another ad vows to give the death penalty to kidnappers. A third pledges to hand out free medicine to the poor. But the campaign for Mexico's midterm elections that is getting the most media attention is promising nothing at all and urging people to vote for nobody...
...Mousavi who appointed Iran's ambassador to Damascus, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi-pur, the Iranian caught red-handed planning the Marine-barracks bombing. Mohtashemi-pur also coordinated the hostage-taking in Lebanon. As a reward, Mousavi gave him the Interior Ministry, where Mohtashemi-pur went on to crack down on what was left of democracy in Iran...
Launching initially in London and Hong Kong, Sarment - the name refers to a grapevine's stem - is the brainchild of retired businessman Bertrand Faure Beaulieu and sommelier Philippe Messy. The idea is simple: poach a crack team of sommeliers from Michelin-starred and other top London restaurants like Papillon, the Square and Tom Aikens, and make them available to a select invited few. Seventy-five, to be exact...
...have you prepared to do this show live, knowing you're not going to get another crack at it for a couple of months? I've thought about it nonstop for the last two months. I've been there and booked pretty much every guest we've gotten. I've made sure to do all the prep work that I can on the guests we're having...
...subscribe to what used to be called the Whig version of history, where things get better and better all the time, you might believe that everywhere, one day, humankind will reach a blissful state of liberal democracy. But we should not kid ourselves: regimes that are prepared to crack the heads of those who wish them ill - which that in Iran plainly is - are quite capable of stuffing the genie of change into the bottle for decades. Hungarians had to wait 43 years from the uprising of 1956 to see real improvement in their political conditions; it took Czechs...