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Feel good foods

Even before the Christmas period falls upon us, we are already recovering from the holiday aftermath of Thanksgiving.  Greed has once again, gotten the better

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Warped logic

The ink is dry on the 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear capabilities. And yet the Bush Administration keeps watering down its message.

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Creation of God Ch.1

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein Was he only

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Shiraz 1977

Hi my name is peter. and i’m 30 years old and live in sweden.   I’m looking for my mother You left me in a

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خانه ای از شن و ماسه

وقتی از خواب بیدار شدم سراسیمه ملافه ام را به کناری زدم و نامه ات را از پشت در برداشتم و خواندم و چه زیبا

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My Liberty

Have you noticed how short my poems have become? How desperately I hold on to your transparent matter, before you run off to the next

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شانس آخر

اصلاحات ایران در برهه حساسی از تاریخ خود به سر میبرد. بعد از توقف ناگهانی سوم تیر گرچه امروز اصلاحات به اصطلاح دارد راهی برای

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Shape and purpose

Quite by accident, I came to know an accomplished Iranian artist in our community in Berkeley. His name is Farrokh Shehabi, and he is a

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What would you tell him?

Imagine: It’s 1 a.m. You open your eyes, and there he is, standing in the middle of your bedroom. “Damn you live far!” he says,

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Longing for clay

Quite by accident, I came to know an accomplished Iranian artist in our community in Berkeley. His name is Farrokh Shehabi, and he is a

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Call from death row

Twenty-one year old Ali Mahin Torabi’s case has received extensive attention inside and outside Iran. According to Amnesty International he has been convicted of a

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Touched by an Angel

      They say Lauren became an angel today.  They say Lauren is now in heaven visiting with her grandparents and playing softball. They say Lauren

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