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...Life X 3" (at the Circle in the Square) has quite a bit more to offer. This new comedy-drama comes from Yasmina Reza, the French playwright responsible for "Art", the surprise hit about three friends who have a falling out over a painting. "Life X 3" is a chewier play than "Art", and I was rooting hard for it. But in the end, it's a disappointment...
August 1953 In Operation Ajax, CIA officers in Iran engineer a coup against Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, restoring SHAH REZA PAHLAVI to the throne. The agency's role soon becomes widely known...
...heads above water. Shirazi's husband earns just $150 a month, and says he doesn't much care whether Aghajari is hung or not. "Ordinary people don't want to pay a high price to change the political situation; they have already been through the revolutionary experience," says Hamid Reza Jalaipour, a reformist journalist who spent a month in prison in 2000 after attending a conference on Iran in Berlin. According to Jalaipour, the students and reformists in parliament share the idea that reform should be gradual. "The target of a revolution is usually the collapse of the political system...
...mission. In ancient Persian medical lore, turnips are just the thing for a cold, and Reza Pahlavi's daughter Noor, 10, has a stinking one. She would be Princess Noor if her grandfather, Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, had not been exiled when the ayatullahs deposed him in 1979. At the time, her father was studying to be a fighter pilot in Texas, and he has lived in the U.S. for most of the years since, living off his remaining savings and working full time at his larger mission. These days the Crown Prince--as he is still known...
...However, the existence of a double standard that forgives the collaboration of leftists while anathemizing rightists is not at all obvious to me. During the Cold War, scholars who collaborated with right-wing dictatorships were welcome at Harvard. (Tellingly, in 1968, the University granted an honorary doctorate to Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the shahanshah of Iran...