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...heads toward a collision with the West over its nuclear program? When President Ahmadinejad took office last summer, everyone watched nervously to see whether Islamic dogma would shape his domestic policies. To much delight, nothing changed; bootleg alcohol continued to flow, Western films and music were sold everywhere, women wore skimpy veils and tight pants, and couples held hands in the street. At the time, former officials and foreign policy analysts explained the surprise leniency as a triumph of Ahmadinejad's canniness: by staying out of Iranians' private lives, he built support across class lines for the country's nuclear...
...applause. A few would run up for his autograph. Each evening when he climbed the flower-covered main gate to deliver news of the strike, the crowd would cheer and break into the Polish song Sto Lat (May He Live a Hundred Years). Manila March 10, 1986 The men wore loose-fitting barong tagalogs; many of the women, designer dresses. The formality was appropriate for a presidential inauguration - even one called at short notice. Clad in a simple yellow dress, Corazon (Cory) Aquino, 53, could hardly have imagined this moment three months ago, when her improbable quest for the Philippine...
...stayed since arriving from Malaysia in June, on the latest of several trips in recent years to the Thai capital. Later Karr sat silently as U.S. and Thai authorities discussed his case in a press center. The press conference broke up with a photo op of the suspect, who wore a sky-blue polo shirt and beige slacks without a belt...
...Weary southerners who had packed the schools and community centers of Beirut and surrounding villages were on the move again, after 34 days of warfare, returning to villages in the south. Many wore expressions of determination, joy or simply weariness, but none wore the scared expression that had been all too common since July 12. They were happy, both to be returning home and at what they perceived as Hizballah's victory over the Israeli military. One man, Hussein Suleiman of Jawayya, a village in the south, joyfully yelled "Hizballah!" when asked who won the war. He then held...
...There appeared to be more than refugees among the traffic. Three young men of fighting age in a yellow taxi heading north among the refugees claimed to have just come from the front in Nabatiyeh. Each wore short beards in the style of Hizballah fighters and all grinned when asked about the fighting. When asked about casualties, they declined to say, but only said, "God will compensate" for any losses...