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Friday,
June 11, 1999

Opinion

Let's do business
All is fair in love and trade

By Shahriar Afshar
June 11, 1999
The Iranian

    There have been some recent developments in the sanctions debate in Washington that have significant impact on the business community. This is namely due to a recent presidential announcement and several new congressional bills meant to reinstate the U.S. as a reliable supplier in the international trade community. But we are no there yet.

    An old friend once told me that there is no leadership by consensus. That is a great slogan for a yuppie office poster but truth be known, that old friend of mine is now very alone and generally considered to be like a bull in a china shop. No one relates to him because he does not make an effort to relate to his surroundings or to changing times. In retrospect, I think shortly after the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy took a left turn somewhere and got lost when it came to being a team player. The only way we can find our way back into the international community is to use trade opportunities abroad as our guiding light ... GO TO FEATURE

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Thursday
June 10, 1999

    Memories

    Those summer days
    Memories of grandma's big old house and orchard

    By xAle
    June 10, 1999
    The Iranian

    Each year right after the end of school, we would pack up for three months and spend the summer with grandma. She lived in a big old house with my aunt and uncles. Everyone called her Khanoom Jan. She ruled the birooni as well as the andarooni with her strong presence and loving gestures. Almost every week she had a project which involved everyone in the family and we all had to take part and do something.

    With so many beautiful and productive trees, we had endless fun at the orchard: Climbing trees to reach for the biggest and brightest fruit, hiding from everyone for hours and reading (giving Grandma a scare!), watching trains go by from the seclusion of a tree, escaping the afternoon heat in the breezy canopy of an old apricot tree, dreaming, shaking trees at harvest time, charting our growth line and carving the names of the ones we loved on the trunks... those were our summer days ... GO TO FEATURE

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Wednesday
June 8, 1999

    Fiction

    Horrific crime
    A short story

    By Mehrnoosh Mazarei
    June 9, 1999
    The Iranian

    Clara va mnn
    Short stories by Mehrnoosh Mazarei
    1999, Rira Publishers
    PO Box 1844,
    Venice, California 90294

    Recently several people wrote to complain about Massud Alemi's disturbing short story, "Midget". Some even thought it condoned violence against women.

    Just a few days later, Mehrnoosh Mazarei's book of short stories arrived in the mail . The first story daastaan-e gham-angizeh yek jenaayat-e holnaak (The sad story of a horrific crime) was every bit as disturbing, only with a different twist (in Persian)... GO TO PAGE ONE

 

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Tuesday
June 8, 1999

Economy

Sleep-walking economy
"National resolve" alone will not revive the economy

By Guive Mirfendereski
June 8, 1999
The Iranian

Marking the opening ceremony of an export promotion center, on June 2, 1999, President Khatami admitted that the country's economy is "ill" and that it "needs a serious and fundamental restructuring." "We need national resolve to boost exports," he prescribed.

The Iranian economy is not the moral equivalent of digging the Kandavan Tunnel, requiring sacrifice and resolve; the economy needs political resourcefulness in order to make the best use of the nation's available factors of production, much of which is languishing in the hands of a bloated public sector, a small but connected group of influential people, and tax exempt foundations ... GO TO FEATURE

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Monday
June 7, 1999

Cover story

Andre the great
Andre Agassi makes history with his French Open victory

By Jahanshah Javid
June 7, 1999
The Iranian

Andre Agassi, who won Wimbledon in 1992, the U.S. Open in 1994 and the Australian in 1995, joins Fred Perry, Don Budge, Roy Emerson and Rod Laver as the only men to have won all Grand Slam titles.

Pete Sampras hasn't done it, neither have such legends as Bjorn Borg, Ivan Lendl, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Guillermo Vilas, Arthur Ashe, Mats Wilander, John Newcombe or Ken Rosewall. Now that's special. ... GO TO FEATURE

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Andre the great
Andre Agassi makes history with his French Open victory

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