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...didn't help that in 2008 Mosley was set up and photographed during a pay-for-pain session with several prostitutes. The pictures were duly splashed across a British tabloid. Mosley sued for invasion of privacy and won, but his moral authority was crippled. "We were within a whisker of reaching a spending agreement in 2008 when Max took the hit," says Adam Parr, who heads the venerable Williams F1 team. "After that, we never managed to get the last piece of the puzzle in place...
...should prove uncontroversial in a country that regards its political classes as even more venal than its bankers. But Clegg's modernizing zeal, and the language he uses, could scare the horses. "I almost sound Marxist saying this, but I really think when you have a political architecture and set of institutions which is so out of whack with how people are actually behaving and acting, that can't carry on forever," he tells TIME. A little later he confides, "I've always regarded European integration not as an inhibition of British sovereignty but an extension...
Under these circumstances, the embattled Iranian government is unable to set a new course for its foreign policy. In a state of paralysis, Iran's behavior is primarily driven by two forces: bureaucratic inertia and a willingness to take only those decisions that are deemed low-risk within Iran's internal political context. That does not include compromise with Washington and the International Atomic Energy Agency on the nuclear issue. From the Iran-Contra scandal onwards, Iran's history is ripe with examples of Iranian politicians losing their careers after trying to create an opening to the U.S. Iran...
...taken stabs at making westernish series, however. The excellent but short-lived Firefly, for instance, was essentially a western set in space. And now, with the terrific new drama Justified (which debuts March 16), FX and author Elmore Leonard have taken a crucial figure from westerns - the haunted lone gunslinger - and plopped him in 21st century Kentucky. (See the best TV shows of the decade...
...Democracy in Iraq can't go too far off the rails while U.S. soldiers are still in the country. "No one will attempt a coup d'état while the U.S. is in Iraq," says an al-Maliki aide. "Unless the U.S. is behind it." But with a date set for the end of the American occupation, U.S. influence in Iraq is already waning. Ironically, the best proof of that is the rise, once again, of Ahmad Chalabi. The formerly exiled leader of the Iraqi National Congress - an anti-Saddam dissident group - helped the Pentagon plan the invasion of Iraq...