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As the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, Indonesia proves that democracy and Islam need not be incompatible. Even though many leaders of Indonesian Islamic political parties first gained inspiration from the Iranian revolution in 1979, Indonesia today is hardly in danger of hardening into a theocracy willing to gun...
The PRI emerged from Sunday's poll as the dominant force in Mexico's 500-seat legislature, and in pole position for the 2012 presidential race. The PAN lost almost 50 seats, leaving it with 146, while the PRI picked up 100 to secure 233. (The leftist Democratic Revolution Party...
The last serious disruption in global supplies came 30 years ago, during Iran's revolution, when oil-field workers joined a national strike, effectively taking Iran's 6 million bbl. a day off global oil markets. Back then, Iran's exports accounted for 10% of the world's oil supplies...
Bulky design aside, the brick was a defining achievement for Mitchell, a rough-and-tumble manager whose interest in technology was kindled by the Erector set he had received as a child. The seminal phone wasn't a hit, but it placed Motorola at the forefront of the cell-phone...
Nor is Neda's the only metamorphosis to emerge from Iran. Tehran's nights have been echoing with the protest chant "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is great, God is great). The Palestinian-American poet Remi Kanazi remarked that those words would once have struck fear into the hearts of...