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...Iran's elections are going precisely to form. Early results show about 67 percent of the winners are supporters of President Mohammad Khatami's reform movement, while candidates backing the conservative policies of the country's religious establishment have secured 25 percent of the vote. The tally: With results in for 170 of the 290 seats in the Majlis, Iran's parliament, it's reformers 86, conservatives 40, independents 36, and those with unknown affiliations 8. There's still more counting to do; votes from Tehran weren't due to be counted until late Sunday, and about 50 closely-contested...
...negotiate. While in the Christmastime hijacking, the Taliban insisted on a negotiated end to the crisis and forbade India from storming the aircraft - to the point of surrounding it with their own troops to prevent waiting Indian commandos from making a raid - the movement's civil aviation minister Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor called Monday for British forces to storm the Afghan plane. "The British may be reluctant to storm the plane with so many women and children on board," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "They're more likely to simply use boredom as a weapon, waiting out the crisis and letting...
...hostages over the past day. The hijackers have demanded the release of a key Afghan opposition leader from a Taliban prison, and the ruling militia - and hosts of Osama bin Laden - appeared oblivious to irony as they denounced terrorism and steadfastly refused to negotiate. Taliban civil aviation minister Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor even called Monday for British forces to storm the plane. But in the Christmastime Indian Airlines hijacking, the Taliban had insisted that the Indian authorities negotiate with the terrorists, and forbade India from storming the aircraft - to the point of surrounding it with their own troops to prevent waiting...
...slightest rattle. But history is a mule in the thicket; it moves when it moves. If you ask me, the story of the year could just as easily have been the moment when Iran lifted its fatwah bounty off the head of Salman Rushdie, or when Iranian President Mohammad Khatami gave an interview to CNN--baby-step signs of a revised national policy regarding the Great Satan...
...Jafar Panahi's The White Balloon, a fable of a five-year-old trying to retrieve lost money, was an art-house hit. Panahi's superb new film sends another little girl (Mina Mohammad Khani) on a quest through the streets of Tehran: her mother has not come to pick her up after school, so she figures she'll get home on her own. Mina has star quality to burn. Turns out she also has a star's attitude. Halfway through, she shouts, "I'm not acting anymore!" and storms off. The Mirror, broken in two, now becomes a little...