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When I moved to Tehran in 2005 to work as a reporter and start a family, life was difficult but bearable. The country my parents had left behind for the U.S. in the 1970s was on the mend. The economy was poor and the pollution stifling, but if you asked most Iranians whether things were better than in the past, most would have said yes. Although the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that year had prompted worries that the regime would enforce social strictures with renewed vigor, the suppression never materialized. Ahmadinejad declared that Iranians had more important issues to deal...
...summer months regularly see Crimson athletes scattered across the globe; some push through tough workout regimens in Cambridge to prepare for the upcoming season, while others use the time to mend their bodies abroad after a grueling spring...
...Branded as a healer by alumni publications, Bok did little to mend Harvard’s relationships with alienated Summers supporters, a significant segment of Harvard’s base of donors...
...Nigeria's rulers and their unwillingness to share the wealth isn't easy, though. The Delta is now home to several antigovernment, anti-oil-industry militia groups fighting for a cut of the revenues. The biggest and most organized is the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (mend), which counts several hundred militants in its ranks. As Pullo, who titles himself General Officer Commanding, mend Camp Five, says: "God has given us everything in the Delta: water, fish, oil. And yet we are suffering. That is our cross." mend recently issued a press release vowing a new campaign...
...tape of the new President, but was too appalled by it to share it in public. Falwell came out early for Bush in 2000. Not long after, John McCain called Falwell, along with Rev. Pat Robertson, an "agent of intolerance." McCain more recently traveled to Lynchburg to mend fences...