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Ted Cruz isn’t topping the polls or dominating the conversation, but he’s one of the winners of the past few months. His odds of winning the nomination have increased more than anyone else’s besides Donald Trump, and if you believe (reasonably enough) that Trump isn’t built to last, more than anyone else’s, period. Let’s review. There was always the danger of Cruz, who made his national reputation on the strength of a misbegotten government shutdown, seeming like too much of a bomb-thrower. That was before it began to look like the Republican Party is open to a candidate only slightly...

IRAN'S capital was convulsed with election mania for a second night yesterday as an eruption of pent-up rage against the repressive government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad built into a rebellion of a sort seldom seen in the 30 years of the Islamic Republic. "Death to the government," chanted the several thousand Iranians packed into a football stadium in Tehran. "Death to dictators," roared the young men and women, draped in green shirts, ribbons, bandannas and headscarves to signal their support for presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. "Bye-bye, Ahmadi," they sang as they waved a sea of banners for the man who...