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...Tehran Clerics Slam Election Results A group of influential clerics denounced last month's disputed election as "illegitimate," in perhaps the clearest sign of deepening fault lines in the Iranian theocracy. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory, which triggered massive protests, has been backed by Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei...
...unless the situation in the streets becomes decisively more brutal and chaotic. Rafsanjani's fate - whether he is able to hold on to his posts as chairman of the Assembly of Experts and of the Expediency Council, or perhaps get himself named the next Supreme Leader - may be the clearest barometer of the Green Revolution's success...
...clearest sign of Kennedy's absence from the committee is what's still missing from the draft legislation. Committee chair members on Capitol Hill generally prefer to go into markup with a version of a bill that is as close as possible to what they expect to see in the finished product. However, the HELP Committee will begin its work with one that is missing many of its central components. Among the contentious items still to be worked out are the shape of a government-run public health plan to compete with private insurance and an expected requirement that nearly...
...study shows that old people are also vulnerable to the phenomenon. The study isn't the first to show that the aged perform worse under the stress of a stereotype, but it is one of the clearest explanations yet published on how easily stereotype threat compels people to work against themselves. Published in the journal Experimental Aging Research, the study shows that merely reminding people that they are members of a stigmatized group (in this case, older Americans) reliably dampens their performance. Similar people not reminded of their status did significantly better on the tests given for the study...
...need to be on campus,” which will then be reviewed by senior staff in the College. She said that after the decision was made not to provide programming, administrators did not want idle students to remain on campus. Hammonds said that varsity athletes are the clearest example of undergraduates who will be allowed to stay, but the deans’ e-mail announcement suggested that “international students, thesis writers, students conducting lab-based research, and others who cannot reasonably accomplish their work in another location” may also be permitted to remain...