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...temporary fix, given that the government's beneficence is tied to surplus funds engendered by high oil prices. Polls show that 50% of Iranians plan to vote in next week's presidential election, compared with 66% in 2001. Lower turnout matters in a system that cares about public opinion, but that has long stopped being a concern of the Islamic republic. The regime is cunning enough to dispense new social liberties carefully, with periodic perfunctory raids reminding young people that they are being given freedom and shouldn't confuse it with a right or an accomplishment. But young Iranians probably...
...week when he cheerfully told reporters besieging his daughter's California house, where he lives, "I'll arrange to write a book or something and get all the money I can." O'Connor and Felt's agent, David Kuhn, met with publishers in New York City last week, but opinion was divided on how large an advance such a book would get. Caught by surprise at the sudden exposure of a secret he had obviously hoped to publish once Deep Throat was dead, Woodward is rushing to print next month with a slender volume recounting his relationship with Felt...
...nation's unemployment rate is at a post-World War II high of nearly 12%, and the rate of business closures has reached record levels. As a result, the Social Democrats trail the conservative Christian Democrats, the main opposition party in the fall elections, by 15 points in opinion polls...
...political achievements, as he prepared to launch a bid to reclaim power and rid Lebanon of Syrian influence. In death, Hariri managed to obtain the prize he so desperately sought in the final months of his life. After his assassination a million Lebanese poured into the streets, galvanizing international opinion against Damascus and forcing the withdrawal of Syrian troops and some of the intelligence operatives who had stifled Lebanese life for three decades. The Bush Administration has used the scenes of Lebanese citizens demanding independence and free elections as vindication of its push for democracy in the Arab world. This...
Giamatti still prefers to audition rather than be handed a role, and his opinion of stars who monkey with scripts ("That's a really good way to f___ up a movie!") is usually in synch with those behind the camera. That partially explains why an unusual number of directors have remained close to him long after he has left their sets. But as a talented, literate, funny guy who spends a lot of time orbiting the Affleckian universe, he is also a tempting canvas on which to project their frustrations. "I can't tell you how hard...