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...much to be humble about. Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood is a memoir of Lewis' own first steps (and missteps) as a father - one who shirks diaper-changing, passes out drunk as his wife prepares to deliver their second child and ponders whether most of his fellow dads are actually faking it most of the time. He talked to TIME about Father's Day, helicopter parenting and learning to love his kids. (Read TIME's cover story on the changing roles of fatherhood...
...streets to demand greater freedoms, only to be brutally beaten back by the country's security forces. Others point to 1989 and the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing for a suitable historical analogy for the antigovernment demonstrations that have rocked Iran. Yet for me and millions of my fellow compatriots - both inside and outside Iran - it is the memory of 1979 that most keenly informs our perception of what's taking place in our home country. The similarities between today's protests and the events of 1979 suggest that this election represents a real turning point in Iranian history...
...this point, no Muslim defenders of the rare French burqa have emerged. Indeed, Dounia Bouzar, a specialist on Muslim affairs, notes that while she and many fellow Muslims opposed the headscarf ban as meddling in private matters of choice, she is relieved at action taken on the burqa. "Imposition of this garment on women is one manner Salafists get individuals to renounce their individuality and submit to the extremist cult thinking that masquerades as Islam - but which is an abomination of it," Bouzar says. "That Salafist influence and activity is spreading, and if it takes political action to prevent their...
...reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi had urged their followers to stay away, although the authenticity of those claims could not be verified. Indeed, the latest reports confirm that Mousavi and Karroubi were themselves conspicuous by their absence from Friday's prayers. Ahmadinejad, however, was in attendance as was fellow politician Mohsen Rezaie. It's thought that the basij militia loyal to Ahmadinejad - who have been at the forefront of brutal attacks on opposition supporters - were there in force. While this created a potentially volatile security situation - just a gathering of hundreds of thousands of people, divided by political faction and stoked...
...Iran wrong with a startling degree of consistency," says Suzanne Maloney, senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. "We definitely got it wrong this time. I say that for everyone in government and for everyone out of government." (See what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's win means for other world leaders...