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...what does Khamenei want? In Tehran, speculation about the cleric's ambitions and the future of his partnership with Ahmadinejad is a parlor game of government insiders. Though Khomeini's doctrine of velayet-e faqih grants Khamenei divine right to rule, Khamenei is a breed apart from most Shi'ite mullahs, who still abide by premodern strictures. "He wears a watch," says an intimate, to illustrate how Khamenei differs from his fellow clerics. He hikes in jeans in Tehran's Alborz Mountains and plays the tar, a traditional Iranian stringed instrument. On religious issues, Khamenei is a conservative...
...first step toward that is focusing media attention [June 5]. The Congolese have suffered in silence and had their plight ignored for far too long. In fact, the nation seems to have a history of silence. Many people did not know about the atrocities committed during the rule of Belgium's King Leopold II, and many do not know what is going on today. Thank you for bringing attention to a place that dearly needs it. Your story was extremely moving, and I have not been able to stop thinking about it. I hope readers will be persuaded to take...
...Certainly, now he also is proud to call him "friend." Bush, greeted on his way into Budapest by crowds of shirtless men lining the roadways, was to conclude his trip with a hilltop ode to democracy marking the 50th anniversary of Hungary's unsuccessful 1956 uprising against Communist rule. His planned remarks, bolstering the philosophical case for his "freedom agenda," made a subtle but unmistakable allusion to Iraq by suggesting that once a democracy is established, that sets an example and others will follow...
...Some basketball purists have griped that the very success of Wade's one-on-five isolation game is a setback for a league that had only recently, with the help of rule changes, brought back the beauty of old-fashioned team basketball - the kind practiced by the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs and, yes, Dallas Mavericks. But most are just happy to celebrate a superstar unique in his own right...
...illegitimacy of the Saudi regime was a favorite subject for bin Laden. His dream was that it, along with regimes in Egypt, Jordan and countries across the region, would be overthrown, and that he would rule a restored Muslim empire, a caliphate, stretching from Tehran to Cairo, from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic. But this communication was not about grand designs and distant dreams. It was an action plan for whom to kill and what targets to hit. Specifically, kill members of the royal family, and destroy the oil fields. (See what would happen to the accused 9/11 plotters...