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...Jan. 20, the Beijing government slashed the sales tax on cars with engines of up to 1.6 liters from 10% to 5%. The measure, designed to get Chinese to buy smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, has had an immediate impact. January sales of small cars jumped 19% compared with the previous month, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. Also boosting buyer interest: Lower road taxes and fuel prices, which are set by the government. (See TIME's picks of the 50 worst cars of all time...
...Musharraf has destroyed Pakistan. He is blindly following America's orders. The whole of Pakistan is drowned in blood." - calling for Musharraf's impeachment, International Herald Tribune, Jan...
...wreath on her grave. He's showing powerful leadership when the country feels at a loss. He's learned a lot in exile." - Sartaj Aziz on Sharif's response to the Bhutto assassination. Aziz was a minister under Sharif during Sharif's terms as prime minister. Washington Post, Jan...
...linked to her criticism of the Kremlin-backed Kadyrov, whose government is accused of torturing thousands of individuals. In September 2008, Ruslan Yamadayev, the brother of Sulim Yamadayev, rumored to be a rival of Kadyrov, was gunned down outside the British embassy in Moscow at peak hour. (On Jan. 13, Umar Israilov, a former bodyguard of Kadyrov's, was killed on the streets of Vienna, where he had obtained asylum.) "I don't know who is behind these crimes or why blood has been spilt," Kadyrov told the newspaper Rossiskaya Gazeta in February...
...more of a manager than a bold leader or a visionary." - Don McDonough, former Locke pollster, on his old boss' workman-like demeanor, Washington Post, Jan...