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...weeks ago, the most freely elected parliament in Iranian history took up its duties in a marble-sided edifice in downtown Tehran. In the biggest boost for reform since Khatami's victory in 1997, Iranians in February ousted conservatives and handed Khatami control of the 290-seat Majlis-e Shura. The mullah count in this new, moderate parliament is down from 53 to 33. And among the deputies taking their seats were an actor-politician in Western blue jeans and women M.P.s, daringly dressed in head scarves rather than chadors...
...After the war, the University watched as the number of married students on campus swelled from 12 in an average pre-war year to 660--forcing family housing complexes to be created at Fort Devens and at the Hotel Brunswick in downtown Boston...
...persistent rigidity and its extraordinary visibility. There are hardly any physical spaces on this campus open to those not endowed with exceptional wealth. Those who are excluded from the upper strata are left clambering for a student center. Those who populate that strata abscond to their clubhouses and their downtown parties, their sense of perspective and justice obliterated in a wash of luxury and privilege...
...endangered group, another sign that she will go far at TIME.) Her colleague Daniel Eisenberg imagines the office of the future, which (with any luck) will feature chairs that give back rubs and walls of flat-screen monitors that will afford you a virtual view of the Matterhorn from downtown Toledo. Now if only we could predict the office gossip...
...fact, history seems to be moving backward (in modern Zimbabwe, to take but one example, the average life expectancy has dwindled from 70 to 38 in recent years because of AIDS). To travel today is to see a planet that looks more and more like a too typical downtown on a global scale: a small huddle of shiny high-rises reaching toward a multinational heaven, surrounded on every side by a wasteland of the poor, living in a state of almost biblical desperation...