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The unassuming Ahmadinejad, 48, defeated the wily political veteran Ayatullah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 70, who ran on a pragmatic platform that promised accommodation with the West. But Rafsanjani could not consolidate support from the country's liberal and progressive voters who were wary of his family's largely unexplained...
One of his favorite anecdotes, a Springfield friend recalled, sprang from the early days just after the Revolution. Shortly after the peace was signed, the story began, the Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen "had occasion to visit England," where he was subjected to teasing banter. The British would make "fun...
Arroyo's enemies say they are no longer content just to see her step down. If she did so, her Vice President and party colleague Noli de Castro, a former news broadcaster new to public office, would become President. But that would not bring the sort of change those opposed...
Some of the groups challenging Arroyo have been against every Philippine President for decades. The left has called for revolution since the 1960s; it has representatives in Congress, but is also linked to the 10,000-strong guerrilla New People's Army, which fights the military in the Philippine countryside...
The Litang festival, slated this year for Aug. 1 and lasting for five days, is one of the biggest and brightest on the Tibetan Plateau. Given that it's just two days' drive from Chengdu, capital of China's Sichuan province, it's also one of the more accessible of...