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...race or two on Iran's racing circuit. State television has refused to broadcast her standing on the podium to receive her prize, but that has allowed Seddigh--in the manner of 127--to protect her radical chic. It's a win-win arrangement: she gets her fast cars and fast lifestyle, and the regime gets a poster girl for its new tolerance. "Women haven't gone after many of their rights here," she tells me. "If they pursue them, so much is possible." She pauses, perhaps realizing she sounds like one of the regime's chador-clad apologists...
...populates his darkly comical worlds with men and women whose heads have animal features: beaks, pointy ears and whiskers. In this full-color novella, Alex, a mopey artist, finds focus and meaning in his life only while he's eluding the police after being falsely accused of murder. A fast-paced thriller that uses funny animals to explore existentialist themes of memory and life's purpose, Why Are You Doing This? defies categorization but makes for awfully fun reading...
...Post and its inseparable reporting team of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein brought down President Richard Nixon by unraveling the Administration's cover-up of political espionage in a thrilling journalistic chase led by the spectral figure known as Deep Throat. But if the secret of his identity, held fast by four men for 33 years, is no more, there is still mystery in the nature and meaning of his role in Watergate. Was Deep Throat a villain or a hero, driven by base motives or noble ones? And was he in fact the central player he has become...
...their source as a contradictory character who liked gossip and drink and had grown fiercely disillusioned by the "switchblade mentality" of the Nixon White House. But in a long Washington Post piece last week, presumably from his upcoming book, Woodward says, "With a story as enticing, complex, competitive and fast breaking as Watergate, there was little tendency or time ... to ask why [our sources] were talking or whether they had an ax to grind...
...semi was basically Eastern Sprints and Pac-10s, part two,” sophomore varsity two-seat Andrew Boston said. “We had no idea how fast Cal and Washington were...