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Rumi
Poetry
Translated by Laleh Khalili
August 12, 1999
The Iranian
I love you beyond the frontiers of your flesh
grant me mirrors and eager fireflies
luminescence and wine
exalted skies and the spacious arch of the bridge
grant me birds and rainbows
and repeat the abundance of the absolute passage
in the curtains ... GO
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Poetry
Here and there
Two poems
By Leyla Momeny
August 12, 1999
The Iranian
Tehran
slick lights
and butterflies
carrying bus fulls
of neon peasants
West.
America
smart people
married to dumb people
sharing toothpaste
laced with lemons ... GO
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Outlook
Ailing, still
The Economist
August 13, 1999
EXACTLY a year ago, President Muhammad Khatami set out to salvage Iran's
sick economy by way of an ill-defined recovery programme. He promised to
improve conditions for foreign investment, increase non-oil exports, accelerate
privatisation and reduce red tape. The hope was to give people a better
life and, also, to disarm his conservative critics, who use Iran's weak
economy as a weapon to beat off political and cultural liberalisation.
So far, he has failed in both aims, frustrated by bad luck, official mismanagement
and the limits to his authority ... FULL
TEXT
Sad rahmat beh jomhuri eslami
By Carey Gillam
TOPEKA, Kan. (Reuters) - The Kansas Board of Education rejected evolution
as a scientific principle Wednesday, dealing a victory to religious conservatives
who are increasingly challenging science education in U.S. schools.
The 10-member board, ignoring pleas by educators and most scientists,
voted six to four to embrace new standards for science curricula that eliminate
evolution as an underlying principle of biology and other sciences ...
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TEXT
More Letters
* Good approach
Shahram Chubin writes: I myself
have not so suffered ["Airline
abuse"], but I encourage you in this approach as I am sure many
who could not speak good enough English to defend themselves, have.
* No visa needed IF...
Reza Jamshidi from flytoiran.com
writes: Iranians don't need a transit visa if they have a Green Card or
an American passport ["Airline
abuse"]. Otherwise they need a transit visa.
* Magical realism
Reza Ordoubadian writes: I have
received several very kind letters from your readers about my short story
"The
Boy Who Invaded my Life," some requiring an answer. However, another
crash of my computer has wiped out the letters, but I remember enough of
the texts to give general answers to their questions.
My story is a "story," made up of the fragments of truth about
life, so no one should seek "historical" truth from that. Fiction
is a work of art that reflects life as it could be, whereas history reflects
it as it was (or, is). So, a writer can do a great deal to manipulate human
life, the life blood of fiction, and speculate about what would happen,
given a set of circumstances, and often it can be an indicator of the future,
a sort of a blue print. Then, no one should assume that this story is the
story of my life. But, if it has stimulated the deeper feelings of your
readers (at least, seven of them!), then there must be some inherent truth
behind the story, and that is the way it should be. I am well pleased!
One of your readers is correct: this fiction echoes Garcia Marquez and
his "magical realism." ... FULL
TEXT
* Petition: Permit testing of Iranian
students
(Iranians for International Cooperatio) -- Petition to the office of
the President of the United States of America to permit testing of Iranian
students for the purpose of admission to U.S. schools and universities"
Please send this to President Clinton, the US State Department and the
US Treasury Department as soon as possible. Your Action Counts!!! Please
help us by performing the following two steps... GO
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Private exporters reported the sale of 50,000
metric tons of U.S. corn to Iran during the week that ended Aug. 5 -- the
first such sale in at least four years, the U.S. Agriculture Department
said Thursday ... FULL TEXT
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students and would shortly reveal the results of its investigation. ``In
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a recent round of talks said on Thursday. He said a border cooperation agreement
to be signed on Friday would contain pledges of coordinated action by the
two neighbours against rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) ... FULL
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PARIS,
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circumstances, including crude oil prices at 22-month highs, to fill Iran's
near-term wheat needs while at the same time ensuring U.S. traders do not
muscle in on their huge market, grain sources said on Wednesday ... FULL
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foreign tourists who were in the central city of Isfahan to view the last
total solar eclipse of the 20th century, the official newspaper Iran reported
on Thursday. The paper, published by the state news agency IRNA, described
the vigilantes as ``thugs.'' ... FULL TEXT
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Promise
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beyond the borders of our bodies
-- Ahmad Shamlu, "Mi'aad"
"Meeting
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