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Drama
The Blacks
Sensory feat of a supreme kind
By Soma
February 4, 2000
The Iranian
The House of Khorshid is not where the sun is trapped. If it weren't
for the design, looked at from above, streaked with concrete slabs that
shoot off a concrete semi-circle, it would have been the ultimate misnomer.
In fact, the sun has no way of finding its way into the opaque, black-bean-shaped
stage. It opened in Tehran last month to house a play, appropriately called
SIAHA.
But the choice of location is hardly accidental. Should we say, rather,
that the chance occurrence which brought the director of the play, Hamed
Mohammad-Taheri, face to face with the basement of the City Theater, was
part of the reason which gave birth to the staging of Genet's THE BLACKS
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Outlook
From MBA to Internet Success
In just four years, Farhad Mohit has helped take BizRate.com
from a business school project to one of the top 50 Web destinations.
By DENISE GELLENE
Los Angeles Times
February 2, 2000
His company has attracted millions from investors, but Farhad Mohit's
credit is so bad he had trouble getting a car loan. He was kicked out of
his West Hollywood apartment for making too much noise. He's notorious
for his shouting matches.
So why are smart people giving 30-year-old Mohit their money?
His company, BizRate.com, operates one of the top 50 destinations on
the Web. Online merchants are signing up for his service at a rate of 15
a day. It employs 130 people, up from six two years ago >>>
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Meekhaay bekhaah, meekhaay nakhaah
I guess there are different ways of attracting women. One way is to
hessabi poz bedi, keh "man elam o belam". Then there's the low
key approach, like, you might just tell a woman, "I'm a man. Take
it or leave it." So do you think this guy has a chance? >>>
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* Revealing
Hamid Taghavi writes:
This Internet revolution has helped shorten some people's fuses and
given them a way to shoot their mouths off quickly, without putting too
much rational thinking behind their rapid firebacks, with seeming impunity.
Some have been conditioned in typically low quality chatrooms and newsgroups,
which collectively have the cognitive value of a broomstick. In those newsgroups
and chatrooms the prevailing mindset seems to be how much you can type
without waking up your brain, how loud you can yell to compensate for the
lack of substance behind your say, and to what ridiculous extents you can
take arguments that go on ad-infinitum.
From time to time you can see the same mindset creeping into Iranian.com.
You can see it in how people react to articles, how they feel entitled
to debasing and insulting authors of those articles or the publisher of
the magazine and whole groups of people of a belief system in the process.
Their protestations amount to something to the effect of "I didn't
agree with your viewpoint therefore your mother is a whore" or "I
didn't like the article that you published, therefore you're a sag
Bahai." >>>
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* Taboo
Amin writes: I
would like to comment on your sexual adeventure in Tijuana ["Nice ladies,
amigo?"]. This article offended many Iranians for many reasons,
namely because we Iranians, like others from Eastern and Muslim countries,
consider sex outside marriage a taboo. For many Iranians, sex must be done
WHITHIN marriage.
And in Iran you have boys and girls who fall in love or they are physically
attracted to each other but they cannot have sex because society can't
in anyway accept sexual relations whitout getting married.
And as an Iranian boy who grew up in Iran, I know about sexual needs
and sexual hunger. Maybe many Mexican prostitutes know Iranians, but believe
me, many prostitutes in Dubai and Istanbul know Iranians very well also.
* Touch of humor
M. Asadi writes: For
god's sake, give me a break. What the hell is wrong with a story about
a little whorehouse where some of our countymen hang out ["Nice ladies,
amigo?"]. Not being a night club or a bar person, I found the
story very refreshing with a touch of humor.
* Rated T (trash)
Davood M. writes:
I am outraged with the letters expressing discontents to the article "Nice
ladies, amigo?". For those people who are not happy because the
article has no literary value I must say that, the author never claimed
he was writing a masterpiece, or an investigative report. He was simply
talking about his personal experience ...
I have a recommendation: maybe it is time that The Iranian starts
using some sort of rating and warning system. I am not suggesting that
you can't criticize an idea or the style of an article. I am suggesting,
STOP saying "I Don't Like It, Take It Out". I am sick and tired
of reading these types of comments over and over again. It is sickening
to hear this from people who ran away from laws like that >>>
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Poetry: Khoi's poetry reading, Portland
A workshop on Hafez and a night of poetry reading by Dr. Esmail Khoi--
poet and philosopher. TIME: 7 PM. Saturday February 5th. PLACE: Cascade
Room second floor Smith Memorial Center, Portland State University.
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Iran students vow to keep up protest until
culture minister sacked
QOM,
Iran, Feb 4 (AFP) - Several hundred Iranian theology students vowed Friday
they would not end their sit-in at a mosque here until the government's
moderate pro-reform culture minister is removed from office. The students,
who began gathering at the university mosque in the holy city of Qom on
Wednesday night, are demanding the dismissal of Culture Minister Ataollah
Mohajerani over a newspaper's caricatures of one of their teachers >>>
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Iran cleric says meddlers will "die
trying" to interfere with election
TEHRAN,
Feb 4 (AFP) - A top conservative Iranian cleric on Friday rejected any foreign
interference in this month's key parliamentary elections, saying those who
attempted to meddle with the vote would "die trying." Ayatollah
Ahmad Janati, head of a powerful supervisory council, appeared to be reacting
to recent comments by US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who said
her nation would watch the results with great interest >>> FULL
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Iran calls on Saudi to lift pilgrim quotas
TEHRAN,
Feb 4 (AFP) - Iran on Friday called on Saudi Arabia to lift restrictions
on the number of pilgrims allowed to visit Muslim holy sites in the kingdom
each year. "We hope that these limits will be lifted so that pilgrims
can visit the sites," said Mohammad Mohammadi-Reyshari, the Iranian
official in charge of pilgrimage >>> FULL TEXT
U.S. would oppose World Bank loans to Iran
WASHINGTON,
Feb 2 (Reuters) - The United States would oppose any World Bank loans to
Iran, such as those for which the bank has completed the preparatory work,
State Department officials said on Wednesday. The United States is required
by law to vote against any multilateral loans to countries on the State
Department's list of ``state sponsors of terrorism,'' which includes Iran,
one of the officials said >>> FULL TEXT
Navy: Russian tanker has Iraq oil
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. Navy officials say oil aboard a Russian
tanker detained in the Persian gulf is believed to have come from Iraq in
violation of a U.N. trade embargo. Russian officials said the oil came from
Iran. The guided missile cruiser USS Monterey, operating as part of an international
force monitoring Persian Gulf waters, stopped the Russian merchant vessel
Volga-Neft-147 Wednesday off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, the
Pentagon said >>> FULL TEXT
Farmanara (1)
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - Bahman Farmanara who is best known for
making "Shaazdeh ehtejab" in the early 70s has finally been able
to make a new film (after several of his other scripts was rejected by the
Culture Ministry). His new film is "Booy-e kafoor, atr-e yaas"
and it's the talk of the town >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Farmanara (2)
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - Bahman Farmanara says "Booy-e kafoor,
atr-e yaas" is somewhat autobiographical. It tells the story of a director
who's not allowed to make a film >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Actors arrested
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - Fajr theater festival's street plays
did not go as planned. Some actors were arrested and questioned by police.
Also a concert planned in Arak was cancelled after threats from pressure
groups >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Kuwait hold Iran to 1-1 draw
Feb 4, (Iran Sports Press) - KUWAIT CITY, February 4: The Kuwaiti
National Football Team held a young Iranian team to a 1-1 draw in a friendly
match on Friday at Qadesiya Stadium. The friendly was organized to celebrated
the retirement of Kuwaiti keeper Hossein Al-Makimi. Sheikh Saud Al-Sabah,
the Kuwaiti oil minister, inaugurated the 'farewell ceremony' for Makimi
prior to the match, as the veteran keeper ended his football career before
hundreds of fans >>> FULL TEXT
Argument
Tehran (Iran Varzeshi) - Persepolis and national team defensive
back Mehdi Hashemi-Nasb and assistant coach Nasser Ebrahimi get into an
argument, just before the team leave for Saudi Arabia for key matches >>>
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Tehran (Iran Varzeshi) - Latest Azadegan League Table: 1) Persepolis,
2) Esteqlal, 3) Sepahan, ... >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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