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...city man (Behzad Dourani) comes to an isolated mountain village in Iranian Kurdistan. Why is he there? That is one unsolved mystery in this minimalist spellbinder. But suspense isn't Kiarostami's aim. He is after ordinary rapture, the gentle collision of distant cultures: a schoolboy, Farzad, who befriends the intruder; a girl reciting poetry as she milks a cow in a dark cellar. "Prefer the present!" cries an old man, and this drama, from one of the world's premier film fabulists, makes each moment and movement count. The rhythm of rural life has rarely seemed so lucid...
...Larry didn't get it," explains Farzad Dibachi. Larry is Larry Ellison, CEO of Silicon Valley powerhouse Oracle Corp., which has been struggling to sell the world on its vision of a $500 computer. "It" is the idea underlying Diba, the Valley start-up Dibachi launched last winter after quitting his job at Oracle. And the idea is IDEA, the Interactive Digital Electronic Appliance, a line of cheap devices that do just one thing instead of the limitless tasks expected of a PC. For example, the Diba Kitchen Idea, above, holds thousands of recipes on a CD-ROM. Diba wants...
...which is believed to possess nuclear weapons, may be exaggerating Iraq's progress toward building an atomic bomb. Nonetheless, Western arms experts fear that in his drive to dominate the region, Saddam is capable of almost any atrocity. The execution three weeks ago of British- based, Iranian-born journalist Farzad Bazoft shocked the world. But the hanging surprised few Iraqis, who have become accustomed to Saddam's cruel brand of justice, which sanctions men's killing adulterous mothers, wives or daughters. Known as the "Butcher of Baghdad," Saddam lived up to his name in March 1988 when his military dropped...
Last week the world was shocked when Farzad Bazoft, a British-based Iranian- born journalist, was hanged in Baghdad after being convicted on charges of having spied for Israel and Britain. Bazoft, 31, was arrested last September while on assignment for the British weekly the Observer. He had been investigating a mysterious explosion that reportedly killed hundreds of workers at a military complex south of Baghdad. Daphne Parish, 53, a British nurse who drove Bazoft to the site, was sentenced to 15 years in prison...
Harvard's Frank Knapp, Farzad Mostashari, Chip Dixon, Peter Olrich and David Ephron won the unofficial national title in the lightweight four division with a 1.8-second victory over second place Yale...