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What the World Didn't See in Tehran
Seeded on Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:07 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
As a journalist, I cannot say that what I have read and seen today is the whole story: everything is too piecemeal, too unconfirmable, too one-sided. But experiencing the raw feed of history has been chilling.
Is Khameini's Ominous Sermon a Turning Point for Iran?
Seeded on Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:20 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Iranians knew that Friday prayer in Tehran on June 19 would be a turning point. For those tuning in to watch, its significance could be approached visually, like the old May Day parades in Moscow under the Soviet Union.
Thirty Years After the Revolution, U.S. Still Struggles to Understand Iran
Seeded on Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:05 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
For all its challenges to conventional wisdom, the uprising may be creating new misperceptions.
What Iraqis Think About Iran's Election Turmoil
Seeded on Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:43 PM EDT (TIME)
Iraq's political élites have a cozy relationship with the Iranian clerical establishment that backs Ahmadinejad. Many Iraqi leaders — especially Shi'ites — spent the Saddam Hussein years as guests of the mullahs in Tehran.
Tehran's Streets Become a Battleground
Seeded on Sun Jun 14, 2009 7:16 PM EDT (TIME)
"This is a mammoth battle between the two Islamic Republic dinosaurs," said Reza, a 28-year old accountant, watching the protests from inside a flower shop.
Israel, Iran and Fear
Seeded on Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:36 AM EDT (The New York Times)
As Shlomo Avineri, a political scientist, has written, Israel was supposed not only to take the Jewish people out of exile but ensure that exile was "taken out of the Jewish people." In this, 61 years after its creation, Israel has fallen short.
Somali pirates were 'untrained' teenagers: US
Seeded on Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:22 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
"As long as you've got this incredible number of poor people and the risks are relatively small, there's really no way in my view to control it unless you get something on land that begins to change the equation for these kids."
Iran's response to US shows mind-set of leadership
Seeded on Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:49 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
"It's the first stage of the bargaining in classic Iranian style: Be tough and play up your toughness," said Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a professor of regional politics at United Arab Emirates University. "The Iranian leaders are not about concessions at this stage.
Powerful reformer to run against Iran's president
Seeded on Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:06 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
TEHRAN, Iran – An influential former Iranian prime minister says he will run in the upcoming presidential election, posing what could be a serious pro-reform challenge to the hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash
Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:57 PM EST (Yahoo! News)
"I've never encountered, and I don't think that we will in our lifetimes, a case where literally thousands of kids' lives were just tossed aside in order for a couple of judges to make some money," said Marsha Levick, an attorney with the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center, w …
Florida beach shut down as 1,000 sharks gather near shore
Seeded on Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:15 AM EST (Yahoo!)
Al-Qaeda strikes again!
Don't Strengthen Hamas
Seeded on Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:42 PM EST (International Herald Tribune)
America under Obama needs to show the same understanding of the strategic issue at stake, and Mitchell's visit is the proper occasion to do that.
Pope Calls on the World to Despise Materialism
Seeded on Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:31 AM EDT (Yahoo!)
Now, look who's talking! A margo star whose fancy costume makes him one of the leading characters of fashion magazines across Europe. He's forgotten how many people lost their eye-sight working day and night for 17 whole years just to get the lace trimming of his gown done.
Obama disagrees with high court on child rape case
Seeded on Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:31 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Come here, Court. As an advice, I've got to tell you that people are starting to wonder why you're so enthusiastic about those heinous criminals? Look. We've been friends ever since our college days. We're not doing anything wrong.
Students Protest Harassment in Iran University
Seeded on Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:28 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
I've finally realized why there is "dead silence" every time I attempt to discuss "reality" with a fellow compatriot.
Did Webster Make Mistake?
Wed May 21, 2008 6:30 AM EDT
If not disgraced but certainly discomfitured with my "male" nature once faced with all the claimingly hard facts in support of "female" superiority [ref: Why Men Can Not Possibly Be Superior to Women], I became exceedingly curious to survey the reason why, in all civilizations …
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Nice Legs, Shame about the Face (Based on True Myth)
Mon May 19, 2008 10:30 PM EDT
A myth based on a strictly true event is, as unanimously agreed, a myth in its crudest form; that's if we are to go by the 19th century current language and define myth as "anything that's opposed to reality" (e.g. the invisible man).
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Clowns Make Me Laugh but This One Makes Me Sick
Seeded on Sun May 18, 2008 5:23 PM EDT (Newsvine)
Do you know how he got to be what he is? By us writing and reading about him.
How Disaster-Prone Is Your Civilization?
Mon May 12, 2008 10:23 AM EDT
If we consider "intellectuality" as the power of the mind to reason and acquire knowledge, in that case, the present article is an intellectual attempt to discover a tentative scale for measuring how far the society we each live in stands from total wreck.
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Hero Was A Hero Too
Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:19 AM EDT
Yes, it's all about the story of Hero and Leander, the two celebrated lovers in Ancient Greece. Hero, virgin priestess of Aphrodite, was seen at a festival by Leander of Abydos.
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Blind Heropsy
Mon Apr 7, 2008 10:19 PM EDT
Some believe that heroes very closely resemble portrait paintings; in the sense that they should always be examined from a fair distance. Perhaps, the case with Anthony Barbaro of the mid 70s could serve as a pretty convincing example.
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Best Things in Life Are Free
Tue Dec 25, 2007 2:15 AM EST
You taught mankind that pen is mightier than the sword; that variety is a spice of life; that in absence the heart grows fonder; that beauty is in the eye of the beholder; that good things come in small packages; that the first step is always the hardest; that practice makes perf …
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Third Option for Sex
Sat Dec 8, 2007 11:09 AM EST
This is more of a comment to the article seeded on Tuesday, November the sixth by Prompt (8 boys receive probation after filming sexual assault on 17 year old girl and distributing it on DVD") but since the address is filtered by Iranian authorities - owing to the increasing ra …
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Choosing between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea
Thu Dec 6, 2007 8:42 AM EST
If democracy is achieved by means of having these boys at our doors, I would say "no thanks"! Washington's democracy stinks as much as the one promised by the religious rulers of Iran. They are the two ends of a stick. Adversary in face but friends in nature.
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A Big "No" to Military Conscription (Draft)
Wed Dec 5, 2007 9:33 PM EST
Military conscription, in its present form and nature, not only violates Human Rights but is also a serious threat to peace – by increasing the number of reserves available to feed a war-machine.
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