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Dethroning Akbar Shah
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A kiss in a Cadillac
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Say "I love you"
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January 28, 2000
Culture
Sadeh
Driving out demons of winter
By Massoume Price
January 28, 2000
The Iranian
Sadeh, which means hundred, is a mid-winter feast that was celebrated
with grandeur and magnificence in ancient Iran. It was a festivity to honor
fire and defeat the forces of darkness -- frost and cold. Two different
days were observed for its veneration. One celebration marked the hundredth
day before the religious Noruz on the first day of the Farvardin, or March
21. (religious Noruz is different from the seasonal spring Noruz). The
other one was the hundredth day after Ayathrima (one of the six feasts
of obligation) held to be the beginning of winter. This day coincides with
10th of Bahman (January 30) in the present calendar. It is not clear why
there are two Sadeh festivals and why different regions have had different
dates. Many Zoroastrian holy days were and are celebrated twice; this is
caused by the calendar reform in the 3rd century AD >>>
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Music
Thursday
January 27, 2000
Prostitution
Nice ladies, amigo?
Iranians have cornered the brothel business in Tijuana
By Kamran Behzadian
January 27, 2000
The Iranian
So I went down to southern California for a week. I was to hang out
at a cousin's, go to the Iran-USA soccer game at the Rose Bowl and check
out a trade show.
The game was cool. There were over 50,000 Iranians of all sorts there
from an old lady in a chador to cute teens dressed like Los Vegas show
girls and boys eyeing each other. Amazing how peacefully Iranians can live
together in California. No one cared if the other guy was a Jew, Muslim,
or whatever. They were all Iranians.
But hey, I am not writing this to tell you about the game. Nor am I
going to lecture on democracy. I am here to tell you about the most popular
brothel in Mexico. Why would you be interested? Well ... >>>
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Wednesday
January 26, 1999
Opinion
Dethroning Akbar Shah
The genie is out of the bottle -- almost
By Mehdi Ardalan
January 26, 2000
The Iranian
All eyes are now set on the parliamentary election due to be held on
February 20 considered to be the most significant turning point for Iran
defining her place in the world and setting her agenda for many decades
to come.
Meanwhile, Rafsanjani has quickly found that, by Western standards,
a mildly questioning public opinion is making Iran's political scene a
non-friendly place to be even for crafty political survivors like himself.
This time around Rafsanjani's prospects for a sweeping victory is not
a foregone conclusion as the hitherto silenced questions of his pro-reform
critics are coming back to haunt him; questions ranging from his role in
the mysterious string murders of over 80 dissidents and intellectuals during
his two terms of presidency (1988-1996) to the shortcomings of his economic
liberalization policies in that same period >>>
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Tuesday
January 25, 1999
Memories
A kiss in a Cadillac
... and crash!
By xAle
January 25, 2000
The Iranian
After a few rainy days, it was such a pleasure to see the sun again.
The delicate new leaves shined invitingly with brilliant colors. Mashhad's
winter cold had started to fade and everywhere one could see that spring
was in the air.
Sparrows made fresh nests and the narcissus with their long stalks were
about to bloom. There was so much happening with spring just a few weeks
away; it was hard not to join in.
After school, as I left the courtyard, I saw Hamid standing next to
a big, shiny black car asking if I wanted to go for a ride in a "Cadillac"
>>>
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Love
Say "I love you" all over again
Valentine's Day is just 19 days away. We have created a special
page for your messages to your loved one. All you have to do is email
the message to us and we will publish it on February 14. You will make
her, or him, very happy. Email your message here: Times@iranian.com
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Monday
January 24, 2000
Cover story
Baby come back
Paintings
By Krista Nassi
January 24, 2000
The Iranian
I, the undersigned, Krista Nassi, daughter of Nasser, born in Tehran
in 1970, ID Card no. 3848, entered Technical High School of Graphics in
1985 and started my studies for a bachelor degree in the field of painting
in 1993 at Al-Zahra University after completion of which I continued my
studies for masters degree at the University of Art in the field of painting
and I graduated in 1999 >>>
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