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...Mraz show has been great in terms of getting students excited and selling tickets,” said Amir E. Khoddami, the head of PK German, UVa’s student committee in charge of organizing large-scale concerts...
...really nice lad," said one. The big challenge after London is to prevent more nice lads from growing up to be terrorists. With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., Brian Bennett, Sally B. Donnelly and Adam Zagorin/Washington, Jessica Carsen/Leeds, Helen Gibson and Ghulam Hasnain/London, James Graff/ Paris, Tim McGirk/Islamabad, Amir Mir/Lahore, and Lindsay Wise/Cairo
...Amir Butler, head of the Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee, agrees. "The only way to fight offensive ideas is to confront them intellectually," he says. "Legislation cannot make bad ideas disappear." Butler fears that "if Muslims rush to the courts, some people will get the impression we can't respond to the arguments and think there must be some truth in them." Without the law, he says, the pastors would have been ignored. Instead, "they've become martyrs." And their Supreme Court appeal will bring even more publicity. In silencing two voices, it seems, the law has provoked an uproar...
...AMIR MEHRAN...
...private, hard-liners are high-fiving one another because of what they consider declining odds that the second-term Bush Administration will pursue regime change in Tehran. "Don't show your teeth if you can't bite," says Amir Mohebbian, political editor of the conservative Resalat newspaper. Observing U.S. difficulties in taming the Iraqis, Iranian leaders are far less worried than they were two years ago that U.S. forces might motor on toward Tehran. Some commentators are mocking Washington's tough anti-Iran rhetoric, confident that no U.S. allies have the stomach for a new military venture. The mullahs seem...