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...Afghan government seems largely unwilling to curtail the power of the warlords, whose wealth and influence have only increased in the new Afghanistan. These days, Dostum strides across the marble-inlay floors of his new mansion--a pink, three-tiered wedding cake of a house. The foyer boasts a massive aquarium stocked with exotic fish, next to a life-size portrait of Dostum standing beside U.S. General Tommy Franks. During a visit by TIME, workmen were putting the final touches on an immense gold-painted crown that spans the compound's entry gate. The crown was modeled on that...
...when Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile in France, the Iranian government held a celebration in the massive shrine to Khomeini that is still under construction near the Tehran airport. The ceremony was a feel-good affair, with a marching band and schoolgirls in white chadors with pink butterfly wings. Speakers ranging from Khomeini's grandson to former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani celebrated the endurance of the world's only Islamic system of clerical and democratic rule. And each person who rose to the flower-strewn podium also used the occasion to take a swipe at the U.S., proclaim...
...only state grappling with steep K-12 budget cuts. In Florida, officials in overcrowded school districts are bracing themselves for likely staff cuts. Connecticut's board of education adopted a budget resolution in December that included an overall 10% reduction - a move that some fear means that pink slips for teachers are inevitable. "The biggest line items in most school budgets are staff and benefits," says Bob Brewer, an education consultant in East Hartford, Conn. "No district can absorb those kinds of hits without trimming some of those big-ticket items." (See pictures of politically engaged teens...
There were pink Post-its on all the glass windows. “Window 21” was scribbled on the one I approached, while my brother Nick stood at “Window 20” to the left, and my friend Rebecca at “Window 22” on my right. If I hadn’t known better, I would’ve thought a small child had gone around sticking these on for fun, but we had been strictly advised in an e-mail: “There are a total of 26 windows...
...potentially devastating consequences of getting laid off in Asia puts pressure on companies and governments to minimize pink slips. In India, the central government took control of IT outsourcing firm Satyam Computer Services in January after the revelation of a $1.6 billion fraud, in part to maintain the company's 53,000-strong workforce. A government-appointed board of directors is looking to sell the company. "Our top priority is to protect the jobs of the software professionals," announced Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, chief minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh, where Satyam is based. In October, Indian airline Jet Airways...