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...create a hot new trend. Denim has been the default teen look for the past few years, and nothing has knocked it off its perch. "Once the dominant new fashion trend emerges, teens will rush back out to the stores," says Klinefelter. "The resurgences will require some economic relief, but the segment will make a comeback...
With apologies to Apple Pie, bankruptcy is as American as it gets. From the earliest days of the Republic to General Motors' June 1 filing for Chapter 11, debt relief has been at the center of a tug-of-war between competing Yankee principles: reinvention and responsibility...
...days since Iran's troubled election, hard-liners in Israel and neoconservatives in America have made no secret of their glee at still having Ahmadinejad as an antagonistic foil to help build support for taking a tougher line on Tehran's nuclear ambitions. But there is also widespread relief in the Administration, as well as among some moderates on Capitol Hill and in Europe, at the result. Despite all the attention paid to the office of the Iranian presidency, nuclear policy is set by the religious leaders of the country, and they have shown a determination to amass enriched uranium...
...Much more important than rigging are institutionalized drives to get out the vote," says Abtahi. "All that is needed for Ahmadinejad's government is to tell the millions of beneficiaries of the Relief Committee as well as those who are now receiving higher pensions and salaries to vote for him," the former Vice President observs, adding, "And that is legal...
...Among the hotel's diners on Tuesday night were 25 United Nations staff assisting the relief effort for the estimated three million people displaced by fighting between Pakistani forces and Taliban fighters in the Swat Valley and two neighboring districts. The UN says that five of their staff were killed by the attack, including Aleksandar Vorkapic, a Serbian national working for UNCHR and Perseveranda So, a Philippines national running education projects for Unicef. Their deaths may now halt some of the UN's extensive operations in Pakistan's northwest. Most of the staff has been sent to Islamabad. Other...