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Driving in Northern Tehran with family one weekend this summer, we passed a former palace of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Pahlavi—who came to power after a 1953 coup orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency and British intelligence toppled the democratically-elected Mossadeq government??had dozens of palaces, all throughout Iran. The palaces, situated on large tracts of land, are surrounded by towering walls, which serve as an aggressive delineation of space reserved for one man in a country crowded with the poor...
...following such dramatic financial insolvency that the national headquarters of the president’s party was actually forced to close for a month. And after Jimmy Carter’s narrow victory in 1976 the Republicans—shut out of power in all three branches of national government??kept on rebuilding, and not just tactically...
Last summer, I had the opportunity to shoot a post-ban AR-15 knockoff. (It was a lot of fun, by the way.) If I had decided to go on a shooting rampage—which I did not feel like doing—the federal government??s insistence that the gun lack a bayonet mount would not have hampered me substantially. Indeed, my biggest obstacle would have been the oldest form of gun control: the fact that those around me on the shooting range also had guns with which to defend themselves...
...from the first, and is one that we should heed especially well. The lesson is that even if we define ourselves along national lines and forsake a greater sense of Western kinship, our enemies do not make such distinctions. This phenomenon is seen in Iraq today, where the French government??s attempts at appeasement have had little effect on the treatment of its captives.The citizens of Pera, a Genoese colony just across the Golden Horn from Constantinople, viewed themselves as separate from their Byzantine neighbors. They saw no reason to become involved in their plight and engaged...
...closer look at the numbers paints a different picture. Of the 133 failing school districts in Massachusetts, 126 met the federal government??s standards overall. These districts were put on the federal watch list because one of 16 categories of students failed to make “adequate yearly progress.” Some of Massachusetts’s best schools—in terms of overall achievement—were placed on the watch list when a small group of students did poorly on a test. This strange outcome results from an understandable desire to help groups...