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...today's Tehran, a land where political expression can be lethal and thrills hard to come by, dangerous pastimes have a special appeal. Young people are constantly drawn to activities that are extraordinarily outrageous--and very now. When we tired of the bar on wheels, we stopped at a pomegranate-juice stand that stays open until 4 a.m. for anyone who needs a late fix. "Sorbet? Juice? Something else?" asked the juiceman, arching a brow. Ecstasy, the leisure drug of elite Iranians, used to be smuggled into Iran from Europe. Now garage chemists produce the tablets locally...
...DIED. ISRAEL EPSTEIN, 90, Polish journalist who became a passionate supporter of the Chinese Communist Party and comrade to many of its leaders; in Beijing. The son of socialist Jewish emigres who settled in Tianjin, Epstein was drawn to the Communist cause after a meeting with Chairman Mao Zedong in 1944. Often the country's only English-language booster during its years of isolation, he edited the magazine China Today and wrote books like 1947's The Unfinished Revolution in China, becoming a Chinese citizen and remaining a loyal Party member even after his imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution...
...Washington lobbying community has girded for battle on intellectual property, which has become a preoccupation of the U.S. Congress as well. As the lines are drawn, constructive moves would certainly include heightened enforcement of legal rights by governments. But the legal system that grew up around the old paradigm, pre-IT and premodern-day China, is too thin a thread on which to hang an international trading system. The commercial community must adjust to the new reality...
Television cameramen made a point to catch some of the makeshift placards—“Matt is Hot!” read one—that Vance’s friends had drawn...
Although Corker originally planned to join the Peace Corps after this academic term, he said he was drawn in by the opportunity to make a lasting mark on Harvard and decided to defer his enlistment for another year...