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Years ago, Khamenei was an underground revolutionary. He later served as the Islamic republic's second President, guiding the country through a long, bloody war after Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in 1980. During that time, he was maimed by a bomb set off by Iranian terrorists that paralyzed his right arm. Khamenei these days is an enigma to many Iranians. His down-to-earth image clashes with his hard-line pronouncements against the U.S. and Israel. Before the balloting, he called on Iranians to give America a "punch in the mouth" by going to the polls...
...hands. Almost a year after the Americans arrived, newspapers still report the slayings of former Baathists, scientists and professors, as political and private scores are settled not by the gavel but by the gun. In recent weeks, attacks against police have continued unabated. On Feb. 10 a car bomb exploded outside an Iskandariyah police station 30 miles south of Baghdad, killing at least 55 people, most of whom were lined up outside waiting to join the force. The same day three policemen died when their checkpoint was sprayed with machine-gun fire. Just four days later, 23 policemen died...
...plastic explosives wired to a 9-volt battery and stuck to the driver's door with a strong magnet. It would have detonated by remote control or when the car radio was switched on. Dhahir called in two police officers to dismantle the bomb. Why does he keep at his job? "I don't think about the danger," Dhahir says later, back in his police pickup. "If I did, you wouldn't find me sitting here...
...Harvard’s detriment that the press has chosen to be so shallow. It took years for Harvard to get its act together and form a committee to deal with the serious sexual assault problem on campus. Yet after the public pressure following the news of H Bomb, the administration promptly released a statement saying that they would begin to further investigate this issue. And the national government is just as guilty of this inconsistency. As writer Phillip Coorey from Australia’s The Sunday Mail noted, “It took the US Government 12 hours...
...will not take long for people to forget the production of H Bomb altogether—just as the memory of the snow phallus melted with the coming of last spring. And Janet’s bare breast will certainly be forgotten by the American consciousness soon enough. But our national obsession with these frivolous sexual encounters is doing more harm than we realize. And while we continue to focus our attention on the trivial and the meaningless, we conveniently distract ourselves from things that might really matter...