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...seems so long ago. But if you think very hard, you might remember multi-hour gas lines, odd and even days, and perhaps a siphon burn or two. Those were just a few of the facts of life of the mid-1970s oil crust that gave a real fright to Americans, forcing them to insulate their homes, sell their Cadillacs, and pay attention to a faraway group of Arab nations...
...being elected President, and that it's better to exercise influence as the head of one of the branches of government," a Tehran analyst told TIME. More an intellectual than a politician - he wrote a doctoral thesis on German philosophy - Larijani finished near the bottom in the 2005 multi-candidate election that brought Ahmadinejad to power...
...justice - and increasingly despised among even Colombians who once saw the group as a corrective to their country's admittedly epic inequalities. The U.S. and later the European Union designated the FARC as a terrorist organization. When the U.S. finally came to Bogota's aid in 2000 with the multi-billion-dollar Plan Colombia, a counter-insurgency mission disguised as a drug-interdiction project, Colombia's once laughable military began knocking the FARC to the mat. As a result, conservative President Alvaro Uribe is enjoying approval ratings as high as the Colombian sierras...
...current government could have continued to hold out against Hizballah and clung to office and symbolic support from the West. But in the absence of any real central authority, the country was already starting to unravel along sectarian lines. Lebanon's multi-religious character and political system - which divides power among the country's largest sects - is famously fragile. The sectarian feeling unleashed by clashes between Hizballah, a Shi'a Muslim party, and government supporters, who are mostly Sunni and Druze Muslims, threatened to push the country into another civil...
...part of the purchasing of this archive,” she sai. Harvard was never in negotiation with Mailer about his papers, according to Morris. Dealers are aware that Harvard is not a “big league player” when it comes to the purchasing of multi-million dollar collections like Mailer’s, Morris said, adding that the collection was “too expensive for Harvard to even consider.” Harvard libraries only use endowed funds to purchase collections, Morris said. While these funds have increased over the past years...