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Unlike the experts who pick the TIME 100, these people have a wide-ranging set of experiences, from taking their clothes off to beating people up. This was not a group that was going to pick Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. So I had a moment of panic when Xzibit, the first to read from his list, named Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This was followed by relief when he said, "Because he always has a tight blazer on." The others weren't so excited about Ahmadinejad, but they all agreed with Xzibit that Al Gore is the most important person in the world...
...about $6,000 an evening, exorbitant by local standards--should guarantee that the party will be safe from the police. The popularity of the gardens, however, has dwindled in recent months. Authorities have stepped up their raids of private homes and parties under the tenure of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Young couples are reluctant to bear the expense of a secure garden that might still be raided. "This is why I didn't get married in Iran myself," a wedding coordinator confided to me. "The anxiety is just not worth three horrible hours of showing...
...ruling Palestinian party, has intermittently observed a "truce" with Israel. But on April 25, the militant wing of Hamas announced that it had abandoned the cease-fire. The militants oppose a move by Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, a moderate within Hamas, to form a unity coalition with President Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the Fatah movement, and to take steps toward negotiating with Israel. Now there are signs that armed cells within Hamas are gearing up their assembly line of suicide bombers. As a renegade Hamas military commander says, "We are preparing for the possibility of a third intifadeh...
...problem in reading Iran's intentions is that it's very easy to forget who's in charge in Tehran. The fact that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the President doesn't mean that he is, in Bush parlance, "the decider." In fact, Iran's president has little executive authority over national security decisions (including the nuclear program), and his constitutional position makes him, if anything, probably less influential over those decisions than more pragmatic figures such as Larijani, who convenes the key foreign policy decision-making body, the National Security Council. In the end, though, there is a "decider" - the supreme...
...party mood. Nobody was hurt in the barrage, but the echo of this rocket attack is still resounding. This was the end of an on-again, off-again cease-fire between Israel and radicals within Hamas, the Islamic militant group that is partners in a coalition government with President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement. An armed wing of Hamas said it launched the rocket attacks in retaliation for the killing of nine Palestinians, including a young girl, during Israeli military operations several days ago in the West Bank towns of Nablus and Jenin. It isn't clear yet whether...