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...showdown has elements of a perfect storm. The decline of U.S. fortunes in Iraq has been accompanied by a rise in Iranian assertiveness, which has intensified with Ahmadinejad's recent tough talk. Trumpeting Iran's nuclear ambitions as a nationalist cause, Ahmadinejad rejected the agreement by his moderate predecessor, Mohammed Khatami, to voluntarily suspend uranium-enrichment during three years of negotiations with European powers. Ahmadinejad abandoned Khatami's "dialogue of civilizations" for more confrontational rhetoric, calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and goading the West by denying the Holocaust. Iran enthusiastically backed Hizballah and Hamas in their...
...still early days. Zhang's predecessor at the theater, Cai Zhengren, 66, says Kunqu "is like a person trying to stand up after many years of paralysis - it still needs support." But help is appearing. The city of Shanghai has started paying two-thirds of the tuition for students pursuing high-level Kunqu studies - grants that encouraged a sixfold increase in applications from...
...could afford to allow himself a small touch of levity. Having come to power in 2002 under the shadow of his predecessor Jiang Zemin, by the end of the Party Congress Hu had largely cemented his leadership for the next five years. He had engineered the departure from the Politburo of Zeng Qinghong, a Jiang ally who wielded enormous influence in the party. He had also stage-managed the promotion of several protégés to senior positions in the party's highest councils. And Hu had even managed to have his concept of "scientific development" - a catchphrase...
...with the most impressive record of avoiding scathings is Dick Kovacevich, chairman of Wells Fargo. Wells not only had an O.K. quarter but also has the best long-run stock performance of the country's big-five banks. So what does Kovacevich, who took over as president of Wells predecessor Norwest in 1989 and just stepped down as CEO in June, think of the current troubles? "We make all the same mistakes," he says. "These past two years show it again: we never learn, we don't price for risk, we think that it's going to be different this...
Still, when it came time for the 20th anniversary last year, Benedict was not going to shun Assisi altogether. While preparing for a trip a few days later to his native Bavaria, the German Pope sent a letter to the commemorative gathering that called his predecessor's focus on inter-faith dialogue at Assisi "prophetic" in light of the rising violence perpetrated in the name of religion...