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...There are calls for the government to draft a law specifically aimed at curbing sexual harassment, but even that may not be enough. "I think that any law against sexual harassment in the streets or in the workplace is a good step forward," says Nadya Khalife, a Middle East expert in the women's rights division of Human Rights Watch. "However, [it] still requires the government to effectively enforce the law by creating mechanisms to ensure that women do report sexual-harassment incidents and that these incidents are dealt with appropriately...
...protests, the sources said, but the Columbia University graduate had been among four dual citizens arrested in 2007 on charges of trying to foment a "velvet revolution" against the Islamic regime. He spent four months in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison before his release. Tajbakhsh, an urban-planning expert, taught urban policy at the New School for Social Research in New York City from 1994 until 2001. Before his arrest in 2007, he had served as an adviser to the Iranian Ministry of Health and been a consultant for George Soros' Open Society Institute...
...joining some Brit mercenaries (led by Ralph Fiennes) in the desert, James is a marvel to see in action. He has the cool aplomb, analytical acumen and attention to detail of a great athlete or a master serial killer--anyway, some gifted obsessive. A quote from Iraq expert Chris Hedges that opens the film reads, "War is a drug." Movies often editorialize on this theme: the man who's a misfit back home but an efficient, imaginative killing machine on the battlefield. Bigelow and Boal aren't after that. They're saying that, in such an infernal peacekeeping operation...
...problem with all that is, it only tells half the story. "Yemenia actually has a modern fleet and enviable safety record, with this being its first loss of life in 36 years," says Ronan Hubert, aviation accident expert and president of the Geneva-based Aircraft Crashes Record Office. "I can't say whether the claims by Comorans of appalling service aboard are valid or not, but service isn't the same as safety, and on that point Yemenia's record speaks for itself...
...nationalized Iran's oil, until then largely owned by British Petroleum. Understandably, many Iranians still see Britain as a credible culprit. In a piece titled "How Did England Mount the Green Wave?" the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) analyzed London's interference in Iran's elections based on "expert psychological opinion." The article, published on July 1, says British tactics included "mass distraction" and "hypodermic needle," both intended to subconsciously infuse Iranians with certain messages and goals. The British media pursued three phases, it said, the last of which saw 55 British reporters in Iran taking on the role...