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...Last week, Moussavi appeared to take himself out of the running. Having served in the now defunct post of prime minister during the Iran-Iraq war, Moussavi is well-liked by Iranians from across the political spectrum because he is credited with having managed the Islamic Republic through its most difficult years. But one political analyst requesting anonymity suggested that Moussavi's reluctance to run is due to his uncertainty over the extent of authority he would enjoy in the presidency. During his time as prime minister, he is known to have had disagreements with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
...less vocal in recent years, according to the Boston Globe. Since the 1960s, the membership of the Boston chapter has declined from nearly 5,000 to 400. At Harvard, the NAACP has followed a similar trajectory. Though a group of students founded a chapter in 1998, it soon became defunct due to a “lack of leadership,” according to Nortey. This time around, students are working to establish a more enduring presence at Harvard by enlisting talent from across the university. “We want to harness the skill sets of lawyers...
...soon-to-be-defunct address on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue was perfect for the tone of classy depravity that the magazine tries to project and that made it acceptable to a more sophisticated type of reader who might otherwise be embarrassed to be associated with porn. This is not about the objectification of women, it said, it's about harmless fun. And some good journalism. But with the anonymity and impermanence of the Internet (no more telltale boxes of magazines under the bed), there's less appetite for Playboy's now almost coy-seeming nudity. A girlie magazine located...
...Parsons joined Time Warner as president in 1995, becoming CEO in 2002 - a position he held until 2007. As a member of the company's board since 1991, he was named chairman in 2003 and remained until 2008. Parsons was instrumental in the now defunct AOL-Time Warner merger...
...investment bankers would be almost impossibly complicated, he contends. That, and it might not accomplish much. "Changing the pay system would not have prevented the current crisis at all," says Johnson, because the people taking crazy risks didn't think they were taking crazy risks. Top executives at now defunct Lehman Brothers had most of their wealth tied up in company stock, for example, yet that didn't stop them from steering the company over the cliff--because they had no inkling that was what they were doing...