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...deadline day for banks. The nation's 19 largest lenders have spent the past month trying to prove to regulators they are financially strong. Today, we will start to find out if their efforts have been enough...
...been in charge from the very start of their qualification campaign last year. But politics and prejudice stood in the way of his appointment then - after all, when Iran beat the United States 2-1 in the 1998 World Cup, a victory that saw millions of Iranians fill the nation's streets in celebration, Ghotbi was in the employ of the Great Satan, scouting on the nation of his birth. Now, Ghotbi's chances for success are slim, though he is bullish about his players. "The Iran team is oozing quality from every pore," he said earlier this week...
...kind of headline even war hawks in Washington wouldn't dare dream up: North Korea delivers Iran a fatal blow. But on Saturday, it happened. In a stadium in Pyongyang, the football teams of both countries ground out a turgid goalless draw. That means Iran - a nation where the public's passion for football rivals the religious fervor of its ruling mullahs - will likely miss out on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. North Korea, meanwhile, stays on course to qualify for the first time in over four decades. (See TIME's photos of North Korea going...
...clattering into each other with hard tackles while creating few scoring opportunities. The North Korean spectators were uniformed in a sea of red shirts and caps, many banging drums in disciplined, choreographed rhythm. The cameras in the stadium, wielded by the North Korean authorities, didn't reveal whether the nation's Dear Leader and known football enthusiast, Kim Jong Il, was in attendance. Advertising billboards arrayed around the pitch for the benefit of the television audience touted companies like Epson and Minolta and Emirates airlines - "Fly Emirates," read banners inside a stadium where few fans can board an airplane...
This universality has been on Obama's mind all week. In Cairo, he addressed the Muslim world in sweeping terms about the need to forge again a common purpose. "Human history has often been a record of nations and tribes subjugating one another to serve their own interests," he said. "Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail...