I am an American environmental engineer on a short-term technical assistance assignment in Afghanistan
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DEFIANCE
چهارشنبهسوری، خط گسل بین رژیم و مردم ایران
میلیونها ایرانی از زن و مرد و کوچک و بزرگ در سراسر کشور که در این شب در مراسم چهارشنبه-سوری شرکت کردهاند - در خانه یا خیابان، در شهر و روستا - با حضور خود به خامنهای که گفته بود از این کار اجتناب کنید «نه» گفتهاند. آنان عملا گفتهاند که ولایت او را نمیپذیرند. آنان بدون نیاز به شعار و پرچم و تظاهرات حرف خود را زدهاند. آنان خط بطلان بر ولی فقیه و اعتبار و اقتدار او کشیدهاند. قاطبه آنان نیاز نداشتهاند که به خیابان بیایند و نارضایی خود از حاکمیت را داد بزنند
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SCHOOL
What makes Golestan such a unique asset to Iranians
by Natalia Barr
I am passionate-borderline obsessed- with food. My philosophy: if you can make it, why buy it? I jump fences to pick lemons, I make my own apple cider vinegar, I own nine aprons, and I’ve been known to swoon over the vibrant leaves of my garden’s purple potatoes. I’m stubborn in my ways of healthy eating and I (used to) think white rice is akin to a bowl of sugar. However, in the past several months, I’ve learned not only how to tame my convictions, but that above all else, food is celebratory. After graduating from Bauman College, a Nutritional Education and Culinary Arts school, I began an internship cooking lunches for an Iranian language immersion school
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MORALITY
Now that he's on the path to righteousness, the apostles show up for supper
I've had enough. Of all that isn't said, and then what is. One can't sit at a sushi counter without overhearing people talk about Tiger as if Hiroshima was just bombed. He is the next stop in this salad bar of stale ingredients we now get delivered as the nightly news, passing the baton from Monica Lewinsky to O.J. and MJ. Fed are the insatiable appetites of undernourished people on couches armed with powerful remote controls, changing from one analysis to the next as more journalists dig up revelations. So he proclaimed his apologies and hugged those that are willing to forgive, or at least identify with him, on camera
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This fire burns within my soul...
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