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...This was expected. It was just a matter of timing," said Vali Nasr, Tufts University scholar and author of the bestselling book, The Shi'a Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future. "The ceasefire and the surge allowed everyone to regroup and rearm. There is still the Shi'a-Sunni conflict. There is still the Sadr-Badr conflict. The surge and the ceasefire merely kept them apart, but there has never been a real political settlement," he said. "No, the big battle for Iraq hasn't been fought yet. The future of Iraq has not been determined." Nasr...
...share by noon on its first day of trading is simply that the company has massive growth potential, especially internationally. Visa Europe will remain a separate company for now, but "in the developing world, we are just scraping the surface," says Clifford Tan, an economist and visiting scholar at the Stanford Center For international Development. Visa's U.S. revenue grew a healthy 23% in fiscal year 2007, but its international revenue soared 57% over 2006. And as formerly cash-based economies in South Korea, China and India embrace the new electronic forms of payments - mobile phone-based transactions are garnering...
...Lhasa, sometimes known as an "abode of the gods," has turned from the small traditional settlement I first saw in 1985 into an Eastern Las Vegas, with a population of 300,000 (two out of every three of them Chinese). On the main streets alone, by one Western scholar's count, there are 238 dance halls and karaoke parlors and 658 brothels, and the Potala Palace-for centuries a symbol of a culture whose people were ruled by a monk and home to nine Dalai Lamas-is now mockingly surrounded by an amusement park...
...Harvard undergraduate, Feldman had lived in Eliot House and majored in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He went on to become a Rhodes Scholar, perfect his Arabic, and become an expert on Islamic...
After the fall of Saddam Hussein, the former Brookings Institute scholar volunteered to help the authority on the humanitarian elements of reconstruction. O’Sullivan became what she called “the interface with the Iraqis...