THE OFFICE

Love knows no partition

Joe is only four feet away from me, separated by a thin partition, so I hear everything

30-Jun-2008 (2 comments)
Who would have thought? Marylou is in love! The queen of mean, the whistleblower of the year, the spy who hates me, she is in love. The woman, that people would re-route their path in the maze of the office cubicle isles just to avoid crossing her path, is in love. How do I know? Her teeth are whiter, her eyes are brighter, her cheeks are blusher, her lips are more vermilion, and her sagging breasts are perkier. Last week I figured out why there was so much change in her. She was talking to Joe, and I recognized her giggle over the partitions that separate my cubicle from the people who residing on the next isle. No one has ever heard her giggle before as long as anyone can remember. But, the giggle was unmistakably hers, a mimic of her voice, which sounds like a tree slamming into a house on a stormy night>>>

ZOROASTRIAN

Layer after layer

What is the "Avesta"

30-Jun-2008 (3 comments)
The general belief prevailing among common people, Zoroastrians or not, is that the Avesta constitutes the “Sacred Books of the Zoroastrians.” Looking at the sacred scriptures of other living religions, it should be so. Baha’ism, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, and Sikhism, have their relevant sacred books. A closer look would, however, reveal that the conscious or unconscious founder of each religion or order had his or her inspired or thought-out message conveyed in person. Later the successors added much around the nucleus of the founding message and consequently produced a collection of writings, some of them in a different dialect or language>>>

STORY

کارت منزلت

همه دور مش صفر جمع شده بودند. کسی او را نمی شناخت

30-Jun-2008 (4 comments)
صفر پناهی آموزگار بازنشسته بعد از 30 سال تدریس ، سرانجام با اصرار زنش رفت و کارت منزلت گرفت. همکاران سابقش وقتی در پارک محل او را می دیدند چنان از مزایای کارت منزلت که می توانی با آن مجانی سوار اتوبوس های شرکت واحد و یا مترو بشوی حرف می زدند که انگار به قول فرانسوی ها" Pass Par tout" گیرشان آمده و با آن می توانند به هر جائی خواستند سرک بکشند. در اداره بازنشستگی آموزش و پرورش، اغلب کارمندان از معلمان سابق بودند که حالا بد تر از مش صفر بالای 70 سال داشتند. بیشترشان دارای سمعک و عینک بودند و وقتی می خواستند فرمی را پر کنند، گوینده باید در گوششان داد می کشید.مش صفر پرسان پرسان مسئول صدور کارت منزلت را پیدا کرد. وقتی مقابل صندلی او نشست ، هر دو دقایقی به قیافه همدیگر زل زدند. >>>

Batebi has reached freedom

Fred

The Economist cover

VOA Persian
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30-Jun-2008 (8 comments)
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Faramarz_Fateh
30-Jun-2008 (3 comments)
The 50% increase of energy prices has created a very bad economic situation in the U.S. and I guess in the entire world for that matter>>>

Failure is the name

Hajminator

Army criticizes itself in Iraq invasion report

CNN
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30-Jun-2008
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Manoucher Avaznia
30-Jun-2008

من از تبار مهاجران غریبم

با عصایی در دست،

مرده ریگی بر دوش،

 

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Preparing the Battlefield

Bianca Zahrai

The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran

The New Yorker - The Annals of National Security / Seymour M. Hersh
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30-Jun-2008 (3 comments)
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alborz
30-Jun-2008 (8 comments)
شش برندۀ جايزۀ صلح نوبل در بيانيۀ مشتركى از حكومت ايران خواسته‌اند هفت عضو برجسته جامعۀ بهائى اين كشور را كه در تهران زندانى هستند فوراً آزاد كند >>>
Rosie T.
30-Jun-2008 (28 comments)

Good bye forever.

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Never Forget

Niki Tehranchi

Iran's Cineastes to commemorate Flight 655 victims in Bandar Abbas

Payvand's Iran News
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30-Jun-2008
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Tavvalode Digar

Niki Tehranchi

Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967): 40-year anniversary conference

Payvand's Iran News
recommended by Niki Tehranchi
30-Jun-2008
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NIAC
30-Jun-2008
Iranian American participation in civic life is growing, and it is the younger generations that are leading this effort. As some of the other NIAC interns observed last week>>>

Our Man in Tehran

Niki Tehranchi

Iran sentences man to death for spying for Israel

The Star / Hashem Kalantari
recommended by Niki Tehranchi
30-Jun-2008
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NIAC
30-Jun-2008 (5 comments)
The “Opposing Military Intervention in Iran” Resolution passed through the International Affairs Committee, 7-5, at the US Conference of Mayors>>>