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Rumi
Fiction
The body who invaded my life
Short story
By Reza Ordoubadian
July 7, 1999
The Iranian
"Admit it!"
"Admit what?" I raised my voice. "Do you really think
he's one of them? Working underground, but protecting us for his own benefit?"
"You don't understand. I'm talking about the other thing we were
discussing yesterday!"
"A miracle!" I said. "Do you really think that Raheem
is an angel, a supernatural body, come to help us exclusively? Make up
your mind, Sister: Devil or Angel?"
"Why not?" she asked quite seriously. "What's wrong with
Angel? You have all but abandoned him, the way you ignore his presence
and practically show him the door. Is that right, after all he has done
for us! He hasn't come to the back of the house in three days, just keeping
to himself in that room." ... GO
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Outlook
 Salam newspaper has published excerpts from a letter allegedly
written by a top Intelligence Ministry official early last fall in which
he suggests new laws to clamp down on dissident writers. Salam says the
letter was written by Saeed Eslami, a.k.a Emami, who was arrested on charges
of organizing the infamous string of murders of dissidents.
About three weeks ago Eslami apparently committed suicide in prison.
But the publication of his alleged letter coincides with current Majlis
deliberations on a bill that would put new restrictions on the press. Salam
and other moderate newspapers have vigorously opposed the bill ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Thanks to Mehdi Sharif
ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS:
A hell of an exam
Exam Question: The following is an actual question given on a University
of Washington, Seattle chemistry midterm: Is Hell exothermic (gives off
heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Support your answer with proof .."
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law
(gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some
variant.
One student, however, wrote the following: ... FULL
TEXT
Thanks to Laleh Khalili
More Letters
* Cheh goli kaashtim?
Bahram Naraghi writes: Yes,
I want to know why we are so prejudiced towards Jews, Bahai, gays, Blacks,
Arabs...? ["I
must be a Jew"] I live in France with cultivated and "intellectual"
Iranians. But I have a lot of arguments about their racism. I always say
:"haalaa maa baa een enghelaabemun cheh goli kaashtim keh khodemuno
az Arabhaa behtar bedunim?" ... FULL
TEXT
* The movie?
Guive Mirfendereski writes: Thank
you for an enchanting and marvelous piece. An L.A.
Wedding: The Movie?
* Poetry: Mimi Khalvati in Protland
There will be a poetry reading by Mimi Khalvati Wednesday, July 7 at
7:30 p.m. at Powell's Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SW Hawthorne, in Portland,
Oregon. Khalvat, is an Iranian born poet and director of the London Poetry
School. She will read from her three collections of poetry, "In White
Ink", "Mirrorwork", and "Entries on Light". For
information, call (503)238-1668.
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By Joan Chase
The novel that is sweeping the country. A beautiful story of 20th-century
womanhood, of Gram, the Queen of Persia herself, who rules a house where
five daughters and four granddaughters spin out the tragedies and triumphs
of rural life in the 1950's in the American midwest ... GO TO BOOK
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at nightfall, but seeks a living assistant to check his hand-dug grave
the following morning. If Badi is dead, the person will fill the grave
with dirt; if not, he will help Badi out of the hole. Farsi with English
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