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Friday October 6, 2000 / Mehr 15, 1379, No. 1080


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A private matter
"I need you to fix my daughter's problem"

By Siamack Baniameri
October 6, 2000
The Iranian

I arrived at the restaurant on time and looked around. The hostess asked me if I was meeting anyone for lunch. I told her that I was meeting two gentlemen but wasn't sure what they looked like. The hostess was a smart little girl. One look at my features and she knew exactly who I was meeting.

"Right this way sir."

I followed her around to a table occupied by two super deluxe jaahels. They looked like something out of an old Fardin movie; rough-looking guys with big bushy mustaches, curly hair, big beer bellies, and wide shoulders. One was taller, the other was fatter. Sort of characters you ran away from when you were a kid >>> GO TO FEATURE

Poetry

By Majid Nafisi
October 6, 2000
The Iranian
>>> GO TO FEATURE


Outlook

Three Years House Arrest Must End

BBC Persian Service

Three Years House Arrest Must End: Reformist MP Mostafa Taheri, a member of the Iranian Parliament, has called for the removal of the house arrest of Ayatollah Hussain Ali Montazeri. At the same time a group of the Ayatollah's students has asked him to start his teachings via closed circuit camera. This, however, is rejected by Ayatollah Montazeri. Mohammad Matin reports >>> LISTEN HERE

For $900, surgeons do battle with the great Iranian hooter

By Christopherde Bellaigue in Tehran
The Independent
7 October 2000

In his clinic off Vali Asr, Tehran's Fifth Avenue, Dr Ali Akbar Jalali peels a plaster from Sara's nose. Terrified, the 18-year-old looks in the mirror, and then at her father, who stands proudly by.

Gradually, her face relaxes, and tears fill her eyes. "May your hands do no harm," she murmurs, as satisfied Iranians do to their craftsmen and cooks. "It's beautiful." >>> FULL TEXT

LUANDA, Oct 4 (AFP) - Angola deported five Iranians on Wednesday after they tried to enter the country without visas, the customs office said >>> SEE HERE



More Letters

* Clinton-Gore's demonization of Iranians

Masoud Neshat writes: I totally disagree with your position of separating the current (Clinton-Gore) administration's demonization and denigration of Iran and its nationals (past or present) from the upcoming election ["Go Gore"]...

Shouldn't this administration answer for these past years and not take for granted the Iranian community's support for reelection? Iranians living in this country should stand up and ask why our relatives, athletes, thinkers, artists, etc., who come to visit are treated like criminals. The fingerprinting of an 80-year-old woman visiting grandchildren, or a director winning international awards for his work, cannot be a positive action to any rational person. This constant humiliation did not happen prior to the Clinton-Gore administration >>> FULL TEXT

* NITV no promoter of culture

Bardia Saeedi writes: I would like to ask National Iranian TV CEO Zia Atabay, what exactly is he talking about when he says he's promoting Iranian culture, with his broadcasting [News].

Showing old films and videos to fill time and generally having a hollow program does not constitute a worthy cause.

I fully agree that his program should not be stopped from airing, but don't buy the claim that there was some social/cultural cause associated with his TV station.

* Falling off my chair

Maryam Moussavi writes: Just wanted to let you know that your articles are great ["dAyi Hamid"]. I don't agree with everything you say, but admire your honesty. Most of your articles are smart and witty, and some are funny. If you were not meaning to be funny, I am sorry to let you know that some made me laugh. Sometimes, I sit at my desk and laugh so hard I fall off my chair.


Film: Festival of films from Iran, Chicago

The Gene Siskel Film Center win Chicago elcomes you to our 11th Festival of Films from Iran, running from October 7 through November 5. The 2000 edition festival will feature a varied line-up of new films from Iran, including Chicago premieres and U.S. premieres, two films of the Iranian diaspora, appearances by prestigious filmmaker guests who will be available for audience discussion, and a free panel discussion supported by the Illinois Humanities Council >>> DETAILS HERE


Books

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Java Performance Tuning
By Jack Shirazi

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Rafe' tabeez az zanaan
Ending discrimination against women
By Mehrangiz Kar

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    Poem

    Translation of today's poem by Zara Houshmand:

    We speak another language, not this tongue.

    There's another home that's not your heaven or hell.

    Free spirits draw their life from another source;

    That pure gem is mined from a different course.

    * Also see more Rumi translations

    Rumi book

Rumi: The Life Teachings and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi
By Frankin D. Lewis



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Mark your calendars: Asian Cup

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Futzal: Iran defeats Belgium

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BBC

Foreign forces in the rank of Taleban

A large number of foreign forces have been helping the Taleban in recent fighting in northern Afghanistan according to Anthony Davis of Janes Defence Weekly. Zahir Tanin talks to him >>> LISTEN HERE

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