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...table at his company headquarters, the 69-year-old president and CEO of Mori Building grandiloquently expounds upon his vision: Buildings are not just business ventures or structures where people live and work but also opportunities for social betterment. His goal, he says, is to revolutionize the way his countrymen live by creating high-rise, inner-city communities that do away with the infamous Tokyo commute and free up more leisure time. At stake, he says, is nothing less than the city's international competitiveness and its citizens' happiness...
...even as he blamed foreign extremists, the spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiite majority, Ayatollah Ali Sistani, also held the U.S. responsible for failing to provide adequate security. Shiite warnings against being provoked into sectarian reprisals against their Sunni countrymen were accompanied by a restatement of the urgency of restoring Iraqi sovereignty...
...willing to wait for his house and his land and let democracy work. Gesturing his cigarette at the procession of Kurds mourning the death of a fallen leader, he says, "We've walked in too many of these." Iraq's only hope is that many more of his countrymen feel the same. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson/Washington, Andrew Purvis/Vienna, Philip Smucker/Mosul and Vivienne Walt/Najaf
...team in Pakistan labored behind heavily guarded walls to produce enough of the fuel to make A-bombs. In 1998 he watched proudly as Pakistan detonated its first nuclear devices beneath the scorched desert hills of Baluchistan, shocking an unsuspecting world. A public hero at last to exultant countrymen, he was hailed throughout the Muslim world as the "father of the Islamic Bomb...
PRESIDENT BUSH IS VIEWED BY SOME ABROAD AS AN ARROGANT COWBOY. YOU RECENTLY HAD TO FIRE YOUR U.N. AMBASSADOR FOR SAYING BUSH TREATS MEXICO LIKE HIS "BACKYARD." WHAT DO YOU AND YOUR COUNTRYMEN REALLY THINK OF BUSH...