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...deposed Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, who wanted to nationalize Iran's oil industry. As Bowden points out, by the time of the Iranian revolution, most Americans had forgotten all about the coup. Most Iranians had not. When the White House allowed the exiled Shah to enter the U.S. to seek treatment for liver cancer, the stage was set for a new outbreak of fury that the religious radicals could manage to their advantage...
Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak's regime last week continued its crackdown on protesters, at right, who have been rallying against the government's decision to seek discipline for two judges who alleged fraud in last year's elections. Hundreds have been arrested, including Bit Bucket scribe Alaa Abdel-Fatah, who has become the agitators' virtual poster boy. Jailed on May 7, he blogs by passing notes to his wife, who posts them. His mood is surreal--"no feelings or emotions"; he hasn't joined other protesters on a hunger strike; and the jail has hundreds of cats. He is being...
...that Thaksin is very much in the charge. "He took a leave of absence, but at the same time he is still Prime Minister," says Kantathi. "I expect that the Prime Minister will be resuming his full duties this Monday [May 22]." Though Thaksin has previously pledged not to seek the premiership again in the next poll, many analysts still believe he will ultimately end up with the top job again. But given the anger he inspires in many Thais, Thaksin II could restart the protests?and leave Thailand deadlocked all over again...
...just because it's an active volcano but because it provides fertile soil for them to grow food and raise cattle, and sand and stone for them to build their homes. Every year they bring Merapi gifts of food, tobacco and clothing, both to appease it and to seek its protection. The volcano even has a caretaker, appointed by a former sultan of the nearby royal city of Yogyakarta, to ensure that offerings are made and rituals observed. This is no mere mountain, but a giver of life and a deliverer of death...
...episode of Saturday Night Live, he delivered an Oval Office speech from an alternate future, six years into a Gore administration. Global warming has been reversed, with the unfortunate consequence of precipitating a "war on glaciers" as they march forth across the Canadian border. Gore excoriates the politicians who seek to take up unjustified invasions of other countries, just to get our $11 trillion budget surplus back in circulation. (Gore's self-deprecating reply: "What part of 'lockbox' don't you understand?") Americans are still fearful to travel abroad - but only because of the spontaneous mass huggings they...