Word: expectancies
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...problem with being present when your baby falls asleep is that they'll also expect you to be there to help them get back to sleep each time. "If you're rocked to sleep, nursed to sleep, fed to sleep at bedtime, you're going to need that every time you wake...
...Should he succeed in capturing the imagination of the Iranian public, the world could expect a President Mousavi who fits somewhere between the accommodating reformism of Khatami and the strident nationalism of Ahmadinejad." (Foreign Policy...
Iranians may have had enough of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's economic missteps, bellicose rhetoric and beige windbreakers. But the man with the best shot at unseating the fiery incumbent in Iran's Presidential elections isn't the youthful or charismatic candidate one might expect. Though he served as Iran's Prime Minister during the 1980s, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the pragmatic reformist who has emerged as Ahmadinejad's most serious challenger, is stepping back into the political spotlight after what the Iranian media has dubbed "20 years of silence." Mousavi's low profile may work to his benefit. Iranians seeking an alternative...
...expect them to happen so suddenly? I said in my first lecture at Tehran University that people are Janus-faced. They can have this duality. They both respect revolutionary values and look forward to modern changes. If you look at Vali Asr [Tehran's longest and most famous street], from all the way north to the south, there are people from all sorts of backgrounds and with all sorts of different dress codes and outfits, but they're able to gather together for one cause. (See pictures of the lasting influence of Ayatullah Khomeini...
...Saturday, prosecutors and lawyers for the Kercher family expect to grill her harder. "I expected her to cry," Kercher family lawyer Francesco Maresca told TIME. "But her testimony was a very good job by the defense. She was calm. And that is not the personality of Amanda Knox from the first days of the investigation. I have a lot of questions...