September 30, 2002
The letters section will be gradually updated today, letter by letter
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* "The Ugly Americans"
I am writing a screenplay called "The Ugly Americans" about my American
family's true live experience living in Tehran, circa 1978, on the cusp of the revolution.
It is to be told from multiple perpectives, including my parents', the out-of-country
business houseguests of my dad's who could not return to the Hilton as it was under
seige, and lastly our driver Hamid, who eventually defected, who worked hard to support
his family and whose brother was a revolutionary.
Anyone who can contribute stories, photographs, or home movies that I may be able
to intergrate will be much appreciated, and will get credits, if used. Thank you.
Please contact me at tkmattson@yahoo.com.
Todd Mattson
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* Reasons for attacking Iraq
Cartoon by "SHE" in response to Bennett's
cartoon about U.S. war plans against Iraq:
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* Will there ever be a stop to this madness?
I read Fariba Amini's touching interview with our brave sister Soudabeh Ardavan
who spent eight years of her precious life in Evin prison with much horror, sympathy,
and heartache. [Life
inside]
How can a group of people commit so much cruelties and atrocities to their fellow
citizens and brothers and sisters in the name of God, religion, and Islam? But then,
again, from the invasion of Iran by Arabs 1300 years ago, to the invasion of Crusaders
some 400 years later and up to the present, to the centuries of European Inquisition,
the pages of history is replete with inhumanity of man to man, but the worst of it
all is such horrendous cruelty and viciousness in the name of God and religion.
Will there ever be a stop to this madness? What can and what should the civilized
world do about terrorists and terrorist nations?
Roger K. Doost
Professor School of Accountancy
Clemson University
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