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Tonight marks the Jewish holiday Purim, which celebrates the Jewish peoples' deliverance from oppression during the ancient Persian Empire. But unlike most religious holidays, this day is celebrated with parties--and in costume. More info on Harvard celebrations after the jump...
...story of the holiday goes something like this: Esther the beautiful marries into the harem of Persian King Achashveirosh (365 BCE), where she uses her influence over the king to save the Jewish people from the King’s evil advisor Hamen (namesake of those delicious triangular jam-filled cookies), who wants to kill the Jewish people for having their own unique traditions and values...
...Iran" [Feb. 23]: Those Iranians who favor better relations with the U.S. should remember that the U.S. supported the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister in 1953. The U.S. supported Saddam Hussein against Iran during the war, and they shot down an Iranian passenger plane in the Persian Gulf in 1988 killing 300 men, women and children. Iranians should never forget and forgive America. Parviz Zarrabi, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND...
...Faced with this difficult dilemma, the Obama administration seems to have buried its head in the Persian sands; our current policy is deceptively vague. Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton has strongly hinted that the Obama administration will reconsider the European missile defense program. Still, no firm decision has been made, and by doing this we please nobody and alienate all sides of the issue: the European Union, Russia, and Iran...
...politics underscores every exchange, and sending relics abroad requires authorization from some of Iran's most powerful bureaucrats. That makes the Shah 'Abbas show all the more significant. "Iranians feel they are misunderstood, misrepresented and sometimes rather snubbed by the West," says Michael Axworthy, director of the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Exeter. "There are few things the Iranians look for more than an appreciation for where they are coming from culturally and intellectually...