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...first the Ayatullah's fate was unclear. The blast occurred moments after the Friday morning prayers, and most of those outside believed he had not yet left the shrine to Ali, the Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law, in the heart of Najaf. Assuming that al-Hakim was still inside, many had thought he would have been protected from the explosion by the shrine's massive western wall and its huge door, the Bab-e-Kibbleh, which remained standing. But when the bomb went off, the 64-year-old cleric was outside the shrine and about to get into...
...sensible thing and look to renewable energy as our final solution," says Vanhanen, who took office in June. (The FIN5 project was approved during former Social Democratic Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen's term.) Vanhanen's cabinet is slated to meet in early 2004 to decide FIN5's fate. A few insiders believe that ASE has a good chance of winning the contract, if only because its technology is a bit cheaper than Western reactors. If it does, then the public might rediscover its dislike of nuclear power - or perhaps the ghost of Chernobyl has indeed been exorcised...
...meaning Germany will have more work days than this year. But what's clear is that consumers in Germany and elsewhere are leading this recovery, not the traditional manufacturing industries. That's good news for managers like Frank Mader, of Glashütte Döbern, whose fate is in the hands of shoppers from Paris to Beijing...
...fall, she accomplishes vividly in print what comes so easily on screen. Her portrait of Sultan Khan, the title subject, and the dozen or so family members who live in his home, is a compassionate and illuminating portrait of one family that makes readers care deeply about their fate. Though hardly typical - as the most successful bookseller in a largely illiterate country, Khan is well-educated and prosperous - their stories, told largely in their own voices, capture the daily reality of a society on the cusp of change. The book, published in the U.K. this month, was the surprise best...
...mind seeing the talks break down," says Zhang Tuosheng, director of research at the Foundation for International Strategic Studies in Beijing. Ultimately, Zhang fears, the Bush Administration wants to topple Kim. So what happens if Kim continues to stall and cheat? "At the end of that road lies the fate of Saddam Hussein," says a Western diplomat in Seoul. That's a far different path than the peaceful byway envisioned by Clinton nine years...