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After the war, the IRGC's resources were directed toward reconstruction activities, partly as a way of absorbing the energies of the tens of thousands of ideologically committed veterans returning from the front, preventing any disruptive political activism. Because the Guard reports to Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, the bulk...
Ivanovic and Jankovic eventually left Serbia to train elsewhere as well: Ivanovic to Switzerland and Jankovic to Florida. But they are still national heroes, greeted by tens of thousands on the streets of Belgrade after their successful run in the French Open earlier this summer. Their faces are featured on...
An increasingly popular way to get at a house before it goes up for auction is to try for a short sale, a transaction in which the mortgage lender agrees to take less money that it is owed. A bank can easily spend tens of thousands of dollars to move...
Even with the U.S. pumping $ 3 billion a week into Iraq with scant oversight, it's still jarring to think that U.S. soldiers may be stealing from the pot. But in recent days, an Army major--and his wife and sister--was indicted on charges of pocketing $9.6 million in...
These strained times coincided with my family's long-planned departure from Iran. My husband was starting graduate school in Europe, so we joined the tens of thousands of educated Iranians who make up the country's enormous annual brain drain. On the eve of leaving, I couldn't help...