'Diploma-Gate'

News Goffer

Iranian minister's Oxford degree apparently fake

The Associated Press / Lee Keath
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15-Aug-2008
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ebi amirhosseini
14-Aug-2008 (8 comments)

Gonbad-e-Soltanieh was a favorite site to take my students on a field trip.one never stops admiring this marvelous structure...

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SCE Campaign
14-Aug-2008
Hopes for life did not last long for Iranian juvenile Mohammad Fadaee whose execution was indefintely postponed for the third time by the head of Iran's judiciary on July 24, 2008 >>>

US BEHIND GEORGIA WAR ?

soufi

US behind Georgia war: Ex-CIA official

presstv
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14-Aug-2008
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Saead Soltanpour
14-Aug-2008 (9 comments)
مراسم المپیک پکن یک نبرد سیاسی بین آمریکا و چین برای کسب قهرمانی این مسابقات است. آمریکا در سالهای اخیر قهرمانی را از آن خود کرده است ولی تحلیل گران معتقدند که چین قهرمانی را از آمریکا خواهد گرفت. >>>

STORY

Dizin and Other Memories

Nothing mattered but this – not the fact that she was Moslem and I, Jewish

14-Aug-2008 (4 comments)
Skiing in Iran had a distinctly Persian feel to it. For one thing, the slopes were treeless, so there was no danger of colliding with any protruding stumps. More importantly, there were the people who were there: beautiful women parading around in the latest ski fashions from Europe with no intention of getting on the slopes; families laying out a picnic spread with lavash bread, feta cheese and herbs; and still others out to get their fill of skiing. I quickly took a couple of runs down the intermediate slopes to work out the kinks, then headed for the more advanced trails. The sun was blazing off the snow and I was working up a sweat each time I came down>>>

IDEAS

The Old Professor

A Philosophical Journey

14-Aug-2008 (6 comments)
This essay is a tribute to Professor John J. Glanville from the San Francisco State University philosophy department, whom I have known well since 1988 and with whom I closely studied Ancient and Medieval philosophy from 1991 to 1996. He was well advanced in age, his hair was entirely white, and he was still going strong when I knew him. But I have heard through a friend that he is now slowing down a bit and finally reducing his work load. I learned a lot from Professor Glanville. But he was not the only professor from whom I learned much or who left a deep impression on me. >>>
Haj Seyd Mammad
14-Aug-2008 (4 comments)

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll, in his latest book The Bin Ladens, gives a full account of the history of the Bin Laden family and its rise to prominence in Saudi Arabia

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SCE Campaign
14-Aug-2008
An overturned court decision in Saudi Arabia has a Montreal teenager facing execution for his alleged role in murder case that already has put his brother on death row. >>>

DRAMA

Garden Party

Garden Party

Photo essay: A play in Tehran

by shahrooz nabati
14-Aug-2008 (one comment)

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NO WAR ON IRAN!

PedramMoallemian

Getting Real on Iran

Boston Globe Editorial
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14-Aug-2008
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تو اجازه يخدور

Hajminator

US warns Turkey over energy deal with Iran

Financial Times
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14-Aug-2008
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Dictator Chavez learning from his idol Khamenei

Farhad Kashani

Venezuela closes registration on barred candidates

AP
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14-Aug-2008
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Faramarz_Fateh
14-Aug-2008 (6 comments)
I was mindlessly watching MTV Cribs this past weekend as I started thinking whose crib would the Shiite fundamentalists like to see featured on that program>>>
samsam1111
14-Aug-2008 (18 comments)
It's no longer the message but the messenger that is being sold. Guess We'll find out when the 3:00 am call comes & Mr Obama is in the local gym shooting hoops >>>