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...under international scrutiny for its suspected nuclear-weapons program, the last thing Iran's supreme leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, needs right now is another diplomatic and political contretemps. So when he met with the hard-line clerics of the powerful Guardian Council last week, he first thanked his "dear brothers" for their hard work--and then asked his underlings to reconsider their Jan. 11 decision to bar hundreds of candidates, including 80 incumbent M.P.s, from parliamentary elections next month. Otherwise, he warned, Iran might dissolve in a "chaos of disagreement." With the barring, Iran's hard-liners were hoping...
There are moments when forward-thinking leaders look to the future and realize that they can best serve the principles they hold dear by fighting losing battles in the short run, so that they can reshape the debates of their day in the long run. This is not one of those moments. The future has already arrived, and the long run has begun to play itself out in vivid fashion. Nader can best honor the causes that he champions by sitting this...
...makes a certain uncanny, ineffable child sense, like that laughing baby sun in Teletubbies. "There's always one or two people--they're in the minority--who don't like the baby sun," Wood sighs. "And they'll say to me, I hate that baby! And you say, Oh dear, how sad that is. But that's how it is: either you're into this and you accept that there's an alternative world of childhood...
...this point, dear reader, let me concede one shocking truth. Some young women actually anticipate the wedding night ordeal with curiosity and pleasure! Beware such an attitude! One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: give little, give seldom, and above all give grudgingly." --RUTH SMYTHERS, Instruction and Advice for the Young Bride...
...think I only realized when I walked into the information meeting for the seminar, and I saw about 300 people there, and thought ‘oh dear,’” says Ellen C. Quigley...