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...pictures of Iran's presidential election and its turbulent aftermath...
...First Lady attended a country-music event in July without a single strand of hair falling below her jawline, the blogosphere exploded with outbursts ranging from adoration to vitriol. Things settled down only when her deputy press secretary clarified that there had been no First Haircut. In the aftermath, a didactic post on MichelleObamaWatch.com proclaimed that anyone "familiar with the amazing versatility of black hair" would have known that the new summer look was simply "pinned up." (See pictures of Michelle Obama's hairstyles...
...first time to confront in a formal social setting what has happened to the country since the controversial presidential election in June. As the principal of a Tehran high school put it to me in his own understated way, "We will surely have problems." (See pictures of the turbulent aftermath of Iran's presidential election...
...aftermath of the September 2007 protests, Shwe Zedi, like many monasteries, was forced to shutter. Cautiously, the faithful returned, but dozens of monks are still missing, either toiling in labor camps or having slipped into foreign exile. Yet the monks I spoke to were unafraid to talk. "It is our responsibility to try to change our country," said one, sitting cross-legged on the teak floor. "If the monkhood doesn't do it, who else will?" Another monk padded over to a bookcase, pulled out a Burmese-English dictionary and pointed to a word: democracy...
During my two-month internship in India this summer, I was curious to see how Indians viewed America. Had the aftermath of the Bush administration left them with a negative view of our country, as it had for most of the world? Or had the presidency of Barack Obama inspired them to respect our country? To my surprise, I found that India—a country in the midst of a sweeping economic and social transformation—has a much more favorable impression of the United States than I had expected...