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...grand ayatollah of Iraq is taken as a given by many observers in Baghdad. But whether the Shi'ite clergy in Iran will allow this remains murky. Some observers figure that Sadr, who has a reputation as a dullard, simply does not have the intellect Qom's religious instructors demand in would-be ayatollahs. In other words, Sadr may flunk out of ayatollah school and never attain the kind of religious authority many believe he hopes to wield in Iraq in future years...
Chase, Chevy •utter and total lack of public demand - or even, really, tolerance - for the return to network television of is ignored by NBC, which announces plans for the weekly infliction on viewers of in the new show Community, whose ratings are guaranteed to be miniscule at first and shrink dramatically once audiences are exposed to the noxious presence...
...Tata officials say they expect demand to be strong, even though India's once-booming real estate market has been deflated by a slowing economy and the global credit crunch. India has a shortage of 24.7 million dwellings in its major cities, according to a recent joint study by McKinsey and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce. Housing shortfalls are exacerbated by migrant workers streaming into many cities who are forced to live in slums made up of shanties lacking basic amenities like sanitation and running water. Roughly 70% of India's 1.2 billion people live on less than...
...that they've lost their monopoly on power, many Republicans are warning that spending-fueled deficits will cause inflation, reduce demand for U.S. Treasuries and shaft future generations. They don't seem so worried about an imminent depression, which would explode deficits in addition to the shorter-term pain, and their newfound fear of borrowing has not cooled their ardor for budget-busting tax cuts. "They talk about fiscal restraint, but they've got an atrocious record, and they've still got atrocious plans," says Robert Bixby, executive director of the nonpartisan Concord Coalition...
...Whatever the state of his relations with NATO allies and with Moscow, however, Saakashvili's problems at home are unlikely to end with the suppression of the mutiny - opposition leaders made clear on Tuesday that their supporters plan to return to the streets to demand the President's ouster...