Perhaps it's the Tunisia effect but suddenly the New York Times seems to have fallen in love with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as evidenced by Saturday's puff piece on the President's slashing of domestic subsidies for oil and food.
The article quotes a fifty year old schoolteacher and mother of two who is enthusiastic about making her family wear warmer clothes in the winter instead of lighting a gas fireplace because "it will help us enter the world market".