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Mohsen Azimi holds the engraving machine tight and etches the image of an open book onto the base of a gray tombstone. He puts the date of "sunrise" on one page, and "sunset" on the other, as Iranians refer to birth and death. It's 10 p.m., way past his usual working hours, but Azimi, 27, has had so much business he's brought his brother-in-law from a city 800 km away to lend a hand. Gravestones have been in heavy demand since shortly after this ancient city was destroyed by an earthquake one year ago. But people...
Under the new law, if police notify universities of “rowdy student behavior,” universities can refer to the directory to carry out their own disciplinary hearings, Smith said. “This law is not geared towards students, it’s geared towards universities,” he emphasized...
...Moore II ’06, while acknowledging the potential for improvement through the curricular review, focused his attention on the need for a centralized mental health resource. He mentioned the difficulty of navigating scattered campus resources, and proposed implementing a single phone number or website that would refer students to the proper place for help. Glazer, in his rebuttal, pointed out that the council has been working on a centralized website called help.harvard.edu that should be implemented in the next month...
...exile group's claims as suspect since the International Atomic Energy Agency is preparing to meet this week in Vienna. The IAEA last week circulated a report that found no evidence yet of a bomb program in Iran, and the nuclear watchdog's board is considered unlikely to refer Iran's case to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. But the IAEA report did criticize Iran for its long-standing "policy of concealment" and said the agency could not rule out the possibility of a secret weapons program. Iran struck a deal with the European Union earlier...
...secretive state were puzzled by reports last week that portraits of the younger Kim had been disappearing from public buildings. A Tokyo-based news agency that monitors North Korean media also reported that the national wire service had dropped the usual Dear Leader honorific it used to refer to Kim. Were these signs that his absolute power was slipping...