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Iranian intelligence is working with the military and security forces to draft and implement measures against the West. Officials said the measures were meant to counter destabilization campaigns by Britain, Israel and the United States. "Today, the main priority of the country is to confront the soft warfare that aims to create doubt, discord and pessimism among the masses of people," Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei said. Officials unveiled elements of Iran's strategy during a conference in January 2010. They said Teheran's aim was to block the Western campaign to overthrow the mullah regime by inciting massive unrest. "Currently, enemies...

<p>The denizens of Silicon Valley, joined by a peanut gallery from Wall Street and elsewhere, have long held two divergent views of the man who runs Oracle Corp. Call them Larry the Bad and Larry the Good.</p> <p>Larry the Bad runs a pirate ship masquerading as the world's second-largest software company. When he's not zooming around in his Marchetti S211 jet fighter -- spoilsports in Washington turned down his request for a personal MiG-29 -- he's trash-talking the "morons" who run most corporate IT shops and the "monopolist" (guess who?) who peddles them "old garbage." His salesmen push half-baked goods and train on "Sopranos" reruns; his accountants moonlight at Cordon Bleu. He is the only person in history who has lost a billion dollars a week for a year. As long as Stanford keeps turning out good-looking 22-year-old blondes, he will date them. And he has never met a new technology he didn't like.</p>