Archive - Dec 6, 2008

Last time Cyrus was honored

Looking at this picture, I wondered how many hundreds of years had gone since the last time there was so much life around Cyrus's tomb >>>

Reading Kafka at Harvard (5)

“Mr. Afrasiabi. The DA has just given me this piece of paper telling me that after due investigation there is no evidence connecting you to any of these charges. Go home, you are free, and thank God that you live in a free society where there is due process of law.” These were the exact words of the judge presiding at my initial pre-trial hearing more than four months after my arrest. ”Thank you, your honor. It’s Dr. Afrasiabi. While I am happy that these charges against me have been dropped, I am very unhappy that they were attached to me in the first place. The damage has been done. I have lost my job, my income, my reputation has been severely damaged, and I have incurred tremendous costs, not to mention the emotional pain on me and my family...>>>

Time for behavior adjustment – Ours

I was encouraged by the title of Trita Parsi's latest commentary only to be disappointed by the narrative which unfortunately gives credence to the prevailing attitude in the United States>>>

Zendegi

Zendegi >>>

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Obama in Your Heart: Physiology of strong positive emotion

Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California-Berkeley, studies the emotions of uplift>>>

Coldonada (3)

Meanwhile we received a letter from Mr. Douglass that he was attending a trial; and another lawyer, a Mr. Smith, would be on our file. >>>