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...History Professor Roy P. Mottahedeh, who specializes in Middle Eastern intellectual history and is of Iranian descent, said he believes a revolution may occur, and added that it is important to remember that since martyrs sanctify any cause in the Iranian context, the more people the regime kills, the more the opposition will feel “sanctified...
...restaurant. He starts off at a hotel in Paris: "The kitchen was like nothing I had ever seen or imagined - a stifling, low-ceilinged inferno of a cellar, red-lit from the fires, and deafening with oaths and the clanging of pots and pans." The book recounts his descent into the culinary hell of a busy professional kitchen: a dirty, angry, vulgar, drunken, pressurized little world that's oddly invisible to outsiders. "There sat the customers in all their splendor," he observes, "spotless tablecloths, bowls of flowers, mirrors and gilt cornices and painted cherubim; and here, just a few feet...
...Kenya's descent into something like tribal war last year followed a general election, and revived questions of whether democracy works in Africa. Kenya is the economic and political center of East Africa, and its success or failure is an indicator of the region's political health. But within days of the vote, as counting continued, paramilitary police stormed the election-commission offices in Nairobi and forced them to declare for incumbent President Mwai Kibaki. The President is a member of the Kikuyu, Kenya's largest tribe and a group widely resented for its dominance of government and business since...
...However, the fringes also contain more disruptive elements. These range from the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP), which campaigns to pull Britain out of the E.U., to France's Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, a comedian of Cameroonian descent whose declared primary aim is "wiping out Zionism" in the world. The only pan-European party, with 600 affiliated candidates standing across the E.U., is the fiercely Euroskeptic Libertas, led by Irish millionaire Declan Ganley. (Read "How One Man Plans to Sink the European Union...
...same version incorrectly implied that only students of African American or Latino descent qualify for "Prep for Prep." In fact, some programs accept students of Asian-American descent as well...