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Most retailers, anticipating a weaker holiday season, took steps to soften the potential blow by ordering less inventory, adding lower-priced merchandise to the mix, putting expansion plans on hold, shuttering weak stores, and purchasing items at better prices. As a result, most aren't under the gun to clear inventory with huge unplanned markdowns...
...With his passing, the Green movement loses a spiritual mentor. "His death is certainly a blow to the opposition, but it shouldn't dramatically affect their fortunes," said Sadjadpour. "It could also prove a catalyst for more protests, especially given the fact that he died during Muharram [a Shi'ite holy month that celebrates martyrdom]." Montazeri is to be buried Monday, and mourned a week later in a ritual that coincides with Ashura - the holiest Shi'ite day of mourning marking the martyrdom of Hossein, grandson of the prophet Mohammed's grandson, in the fight against injustice. Montazeri's passing...
...more plausible in those nations than in the United States. Indeed, formally weakening the Senate would require constitutional amendment, just the same as abolishing the Senate would. If our aim is to allow majority rule in Congress, it makes more sense to kill the Senate in one blow than to use the same maneuver to merely weaken...
...real estate is crashing, home foreclosures are rising, and many state and local governments are teetering on the brink of insolvency. The nation, in other words, is out of the operating room but not yet home from the hospital. "If we go back into recession, it's going to blow out the budget, and it's going to cost the taxpayers a lot more," says Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Economy.com, who has advised both parties. (See the worst business deals...
...this week. In the meantime, thousands of students in the affected areas are missing yet another year's exams. "The government says it is in the interest of the children that the security forces stay in the schools to guard against Maoist activities," Bhattacharjee says. "The Maoists say they blow up schools because they are less educational institutions and more security camps. So, ultimately the villagers get caught in the crossfire...