Archive - Feb 2009

Victim of chimp attack in 'critical but stable' condition

* Chimp attack 911 call: 'He's ripping her apart'
* life in danger after chimp attack
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pictory: Shah of Iran's Bicentennial Message to America (1976)

As part of a Bicentennial series, Time magazine presented a series of Messages to America from world leaders. This Message from the Shah of Iran appeared in the June 28, 1976 issue. >>>

pictory: Khomeiny Makes Fun of Shah in front of Laughing Crowd (1979)

Khomeiny in Qom makes fun of a photo he saw of the Shah of Iran (with eyeglasses ?) and insists on his so called "cowardice" and "Stooge" like personality in front of a US president but the Ayatollah can't name the latter.

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Our Friend the Atom

Malek Khanoum walked several steps from the minivan and took in a lungful of air. “The jasmines must be in bloom,” she smiled. Her voice was the same, confident and declarative. She had aged less than I imagined, but she dressed differently now. Brown headscarf, dark shoes like two eggplants, covered from neck to ankle in drab gray. Only her face showed. She had never worn makeup. Never needed it, even when she used to wear strikingly modern dresses and flashy high heels. I wondered how gray she had turned beneath her scarf. Her hair was once, as the American poet puts it, “one warrior innocent of defeat.”>>>