شاید آن بوی دل انگیز لطیف
صبح و شامم نفسی تازه کند.
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From Paul Newman to Charlton Heston. From Harold Pinter, Soldjenitzin to Arthur C. Clark, From Heath Ledger to Richard Widmark
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He said: “well, we should just round all of them up and kill them. That is something Israel has failed to do
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The Constitutional Monarch of Belgium's State Visit to Iran in Royal Carriage with Shah of Iran. (circa 1960's)
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IDEAS
What better way to end the rule of self-serving political parties than to hold elections on the Internet?
We have descended a long way from stated ideals of the original proponents of democracy. The great march of freedom has been replaced by national and international political discourses consumed with fundamentalism and extremism of the Christian, Muslim, Jewish and even Hindu types. Lofty ideals about the nature of humanity, progress, and a bright tomorrow when racism, fascism,apartheid and sexism would be discarded to the dustbin of history to be replaced by a loving, green and peaceful world have been all but forgotten. The age of the Internet and the information highway, the collapse of totalitarianism, and intensified globalisation have rather surprisingly resulted in a greater and more severe pursuit of national interests and wars rather than the pursuit of happiness and international solidarity
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Today's edition of Beyond Belief on BBC Radio 4 is on Zoroastrianism.
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HUMOR
Javad shadowed Seema for months, asking her to marry him repeatedly
I met Seema at Bellagio on one of my frequent runs to the ATM machine. Being a lousy poker player and not knowing my limit, I spent more time pacing to the ATM machine than at the poker table. One look at me and Seema knew she had a customer (sucker) for life. Now, make no mistake about it, though a high school dropout, Seema had a PhD from the school of hard knocks. In her profession she needed not to be book smart but street smart. Seema hustled the hustlers, cheated the cheaters and swindle the swindlers. She was such savvy negotiator that she could perhaps negotiate the Middle East peace, if she could find the Middle East on a map
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TEA FOR ONE
I’m not that good with this online dating business
Shaadi finally decided to do it. She signed up with the Iranian dating site, submitted her photograph, and answered the questions. She thought to herself, “I’ll be 100% honest in answering the questions. I don’t want any complications as a result of withheld information or half truths.” She wrote down her real age, her real weight, and answered all the questions fully and truthfully. Among the people she heard from, there was a man who seemed like a good choice. He was her age, had been married and divorced, didn’t have any kids and didn’t want any, and his picture showed him to be good looking, with a full head of hair, dressed in a nice suite. She and Hamid started chatting and corresponding online
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