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...ranks of the faithful--those who fought for the revolution, and the generation raised on its ideology--who keep the Islamic state in power. To be sure, Iran hardly feels like a revolutionary place. Some 70% of its population is under 30 and has grown up in a period of relative peace. Some have indeed grown tired of the constraints of living in the Islamic republic. "The younger generation sees the reality, and the discrepancy between that and what we were promised," says Masoud, a shoe merchant in Tehran's Grand Bazaar. In contrast to other countries in the Middle...
Trimming any of these systems--much less killing them--won't be easy. Gates is waging this war on two fronts. First, he knows he has to change a Defense Department culture that favors "99% exquisite solutions over a five- or six- or 10-year period" to a "75% solution in weeks or months." To help accomplish that, he is salting the military's senior ranks with officers who agree with him. He tapped General David Petraeus, whose counterinsurgency skills helped stabilize Iraq, to head an Army board asked to sift through colonels to identify those who merit promotion...
...there are also plenty of people who might be able to keep their homes with a lower interest rate or a longer loan period. In many cases, this is in the best economic interest of the mortgage holder, since up to half of a house's value can be lost in foreclosure. And yet often--especially when the loan has been chopped up and dispersed to investors around the globe with a third-party servicer in charge of collecting payments--that's not happening. "Servicers don't have the right incentives," says Christopher Mayer, professor of real estate at Columbia...
...what to do with these folks." There have been ideas on how to return owners to the rent rolls. Last year, for example, Arizona Congressman Raśl Grijalva proposed changing foreclosure rules to let homeowners petition a judge to let them remain where they are as renters for a defined period...
...will have 42 days to glue together a coalition. Most likely, the bartering will drag on for weeks, with outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert staying on as caretaker, probably until early April. Before the voting, Israelis said they wanted a strong leader. What they have instead is a prolonged period of political disarray...