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...Beyond that, the Journal is not like other newspapers. About the only thing it has in common with your metro daily is the paper they're printed on. Where most newspapers make their money by aggregating mass audiences to read grocery, automobile and classified ads, the Journal's business is built on an elite audience that highly values the information the paper provides. This audience in turns attracts advertising for luxury goods and financial services unavailable to most other dailies...
...Ahmadinejad on the occasion of Iran's first successful experiment in uranium enrichment. The holiday coincides with the anniversary of the date Iran cut ties with the United States after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iranians celebrated with a measure of irony, pleased to find the government had decreed the metro system free for the day, but anxious over what Tehran's latest nuclear strides would mean for their country's tense stand-off with the West. "I'm very sorry I forgot to congratulate you," a customer joked to the owner of a bookshop in central Tehran. "Where...
Japan is a trainspotter's paradise. From the 12 separate metro lines that twist beneath Tokyo like a bowl of noodles to the suburban commuter trains packed to bursting every morning and evening, the country runs on rails. In 2005, Japanese traveled 243 billion miles by railroad - nearly 1,900 miles per person. And 49 billion of those miles were covered by the shinkansen, the super-fast bullet trains that make intercity travel as simple as a subway hop. If all you've ever known is the slow torture of Amtrak, you won't believe trains that reach...
...regime to provide a 'train and equip program' for terrorist organizations like Hizballah, as well as to pursue other military objectives of the regime." He also noted the Guard is taking over regular government functions such as management of the Tehran airport and building a new Tehran metro. "When corporations do business with IRGC companies," he warned, "they are doing business with organizations that are providing direct support to terrorism...
...Republican field. Republicans look likely to nominate one from a trio of "metro Republicans," to use the term applied to Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney by Noemie Emery in the Weekly Standard. Emery writes, "None hails from the South, none looks or sounds country, none is conspicuous for traditional piety ... [but] each is a strong conservative on many key issues, while having a dissident streak on a few. Each has a way of presenting conservative views that centrists don't find threatening, and projecting fairly traditional values in a language that secular voters don't fear." Each...