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...Koromo, to match its most important citizen. But the town's fortunes rise and fall with Toyota's. The firm's sprawling factory complexes lie only a short distance from the town center, and, as in any company town, the paychecks of Toyota employees are the main source of support for its restaurants and shops. According to city statistics, 77,000 people in the town work in auto-related industries. The entire region is connected to Toyota, with independent suppliers of parts spread through the surrounding countryside and nearby cities. "Toyota is the biggest company in this area," says Masahiko...
...protest, however fiery, is unlikely set off any tremors. Colombo was back to business soon after the protest was over. The traffic was once again bad, the buses were belching, and the heat unbearable. Die-hard Fonseka supporters have vowed to continue the protests, which have yet to gain the support of wider civil-society groups. "We will go on. We will not stop till our general is given back to us," Vinni Siegera, a middle-aged woman who had attended the rally without an invitation, told TIME, beads of sweat on her forehead. The next few days will make...
...coming clash could be the future of the Islamic Republic. What was once a spontaneous movement to contest the results of the presidential election, which opponents of Ahmadinejad say was fraudulent, has become a broader critique of the regime itself. Though most of the opposition's leaders still support Islamic government, they say the current leadership has abandoned both the democratic norms of the Republic and the moral legitimacy of Islam by abusing its own people...
...responsibility of the International Monetary Fund, not other E.U. countries. "A large-scale bailout would make taxpayers across Europe liable, either directly or indirectly, for the mistakes of a government over which they have no democratic control. Such a policy simply isn't reasonable and lacks public support," says Pieter Cleppe, head of the Brussels office of Open Europe, a think tank that opposes greater centralization of power in the E.U. Indeed, the IMF has already given millions in bailout money to E.U. countries like Hungary and Latvia, neither of which uses the euro, but eurozone countries fear that such...
...Although polls show that Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou still has broad support for his economic plans, with about 65% of Greeks agreeing that painful measures are necessary to slash the deficit, many of the street protesters said they did not believe the government claims that it had run out of money. Others argued that it was the rich who should pay. "It's a crisis caused by the capitalist system," said Sissy Vovou, a 60-year-old pensioner. "Those who should pay are the capitalists, not the working classes...