One day, long, long ago.... there lived a woman who did not whine, nag or bitch
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What some specific others think of being assertive and strong women!
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IRAN
Photo essay: Panorama of people and places
by Farhang Haghighat
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GEORGIA
Self-baptised Yankee liberators should stay away from the Georgian-Russian conflict
As long as Georgia was a part of the Soviet Union, all ethnic conflicts within the Soviet zone of "interests", were not international issues. Yet, the issue emerged à la une after the dissolution of the USSR, when first in 1995 the two regions -- Abkhazia and South Ossetia -- became involved in conflicts with local separatists supported by Moscow. The issue ended in a de facto independence of South Ossetia from Georgia. Yet, with a pro-US president in office, Georgia launched an assault earlier this month with artillery and rocket attacks on the separatists. Russia immediately reacted and showed the sharp claws of a polar bear
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Gonbad-e-Soltanieh was a favorite site to take my students on a field trip.one never stops admiring this marvelous structure...
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مراسم المپیک پکن یک نبرد سیاسی بین آمریکا و چین برای کسب قهرمانی این مسابقات است. آمریکا در سالهای اخیر قهرمانی را از آن خود کرده است ولی تحلیل گران معتقدند که چین قهرمانی را از آمریکا خواهد گرفت.
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STORY
Nothing mattered but this – not the fact that she was Moslem and I, Jewish
Skiing in Iran had a distinctly Persian feel to it. For one thing, the slopes were treeless, so there was no danger of colliding with any protruding stumps. More importantly, there were the people who were there: beautiful women parading around in the latest ski fashions from Europe with no intention of getting on the slopes; families laying out a picnic spread with lavash bread, feta cheese and herbs; and still others out to get their fill of skiing. I quickly took a couple of runs down the intermediate slopes to work out the kinks, then headed for the more advanced trails. The sun was blazing off the snow and I was working up a sweat each time I came down
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