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...company expects existing stocks to last well into the fall. Kodak plans to donate the last remaining rolls of Kodachrome film to the George Eastman House's photography museum. One of them will be symbolically shot by McCurry - although the famed photographer gave up the format long ago. In fact, McCurry's photographic career perfectly traces the rise and fall of Kodak film. He shot his iconic Afghan-girl portrait on Kodachrome and returned 17 years later to photograph the same woman with Kodak's easier-to-develop Ektachrome. Now, he relies on digital...
...surprisingly, state television has not been reporting the violence meted out to demonstrators by special police forces and paramilitary Basij. In fact, in one program on the victims, it showed three badly injured young men who looked like Basijis. One of them said, "I was beaten to a pulp just because I wear a beard." Mourning the Basij as victims is one of state television's greatest distortions of truth. Legally unaccountable and equipped with police gear like shields, batons and, in some cases, Colts, the Basij have not held back in their violence against demonstrators. (Read about...
...terrorist acts." On Sunday, the NCRI dismissed the story and mocked what it called the "preposterous and threadbare claims to justify the suppression and killings inside Iran." Those claims were designed, the group said, to mask the regime's "fear of the Iranian people's nationwide uprising and the fact that many young people are being drawn" to the NCRI's drive to remove the mullahs from power. (See pictures of Iran's presidential elections and their turbulent aftermath...
...point to a rally outside Paris on Saturday that drew as many as 90,000 people to protest the situation in Iran. NCRI leaders are also quick to point out that the organization supplied information from inside Iran that was pivotal in documenting Tehran's military nuclear ambitions - a fact acknowledged by Western diplomats. (Read "Joe Klein: What I Saw at the Revolution...
...fact, while there have been real splits between the U.S. and Europe in other international crises - most divisive, Europe's reluctance to send combat troops to Afghanistan - the allies are hardly at odds in their basic response to the Iranian election. "There isn't a deep underlying difference - both sides would like to see free and fair elections in Iran," says Niblett. "But there are various factors that have prevented a unified response. And that's O.K. In this regard, Obama should play it differently...