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...guards love, ensuring they got the latest military hardware and best facilities. They even set up their own university. Now the guard - sepah in Farsi - has evolved into what a study by the Rand Corp.'s National Defense Research Institute describes as an "expansive socio-political-economic conglomerate whose influence extends into virtually every corner of Iranian political life and society." Its commercial interests run into the billions of dollars and range from massive infrastructure projects to laser eye surgery. And in addition to the Intelligence Ministry, guardsmen control the ministries of Defense, Oil and the Interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Quiet Coup | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...boost the party (one posed as an MP, the other as an official Labour outlet). @lordmandelson, a fake version of Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, has also suspended activities. The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, who now tweets as @DMiliband, was beaten in the race to join Twitter by an impostor whose elegiac tweet on Michael Jackson's death was widely quoted by credulous media. "So far it's all been quite amusing," says McCarthy. "David Miliband talking about Michael Jackson's death isn't going to cause a foreign policy crisis whereas David Miliband saying, 'It's all the fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Injunction by Twitter: Stopping a Web Impostor | 10/3/2009 | See Source »

...sudden, American Apparel’s popular “Legalize LA” shirts have taken on a whole new significance. In the coming days, the company will fire 1,800 workers whose papers federal authorities deemed illegitimate. Though it is always a tragedy whenever anyone loses his or her job, the criticism over this new policy of firing is unwarranted...

Author: By Alix M. Olian | Title: No Jobs but No Deportation | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

Treuer explained how global warming has affected every Alaskan—from the villagers whose homes are being destroyed by storm surges to suburban teenagers...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Ask For Clean Energy | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...they do so by overlooking the costs and organizational snafus. To secure the Pan Ams, Rio promised to transform the city with a new ring road system, a "via light" highway, a new state highway and 54 km of new metro line. Guanabara Bay, the fetid body of water whose smell assails visitors driving into town from the international airport, was to be cleaned up. None of those plans came to fruition, prompting the current mayor, and former state Sports Secretary, to admit that the city promised too much and provided too little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rio Wins the 2016 Olympics: Now For the Hard Part | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

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