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That November, radical supporters seized the American embassy, provoking a 444-day confrontation with the "Great Satan" over 52 hostages. But Khomeini never was able to reconcile the widely divergent forces in his revolution. Top aides fled into exile or were executed, and thousands of other Iranians were imprisoned or...
But even in face of this threat, House lists should remain unregulated. Regulation, though well-intentioned, will no doubt inhibit list members from posting potentially useful, entertaining or thought-provoking e-mails for fear of warnings or removal. Also, as any regulation of House lists will always be unfairly subjective?...
Susan Piver doesn't want you to take the plunge before reading The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do" (Tarcher/Putnam). This slim best seller recommends that couples get to know each other by working through dozens of questions about money, sex, family and even...
MARTHA MINOW. The author’s new work, Breaking the Cycles of Hatred, collects three essays by Minow and a number of responses by prominent legal and political thinkers. The fascinating (not to mention quite relevant) discourse revolves around ways in which violence begets violence, and explores issues such...
As the sense of inevitability about war grows, the region's leaders have begun to abandon their fellow head of state. Normally cautious Saudi Arabia has been publicly brandishing a knife at Saddam, pushing an initiative that could provide him an escape--voluntary exile--but is aimed more at provoking...