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...Satrapi and her family - career from one ideology to the next. She is taught from first grade on that God chose the Shah; every time his name is mentioned, all the students have to stand up. But after the Shah flees the revolution, her teacher instructs the class to rip his picture out of their textbooks. Her parents, upper-class leftists, risk their lives marching for the revolution - only to watch as it is hijacked by Islamic fundamentalists. Satrapi herself tries on identities like costumes; first she is convinced she is a prophet and has regular consultations with...
...interesting or not: "We drove for half an hour, past rice paddies, water buffalo and palm trees." Invented Eden has many such sentences. Worse, Hemley is a complainer, which is no more fun in a book than on the trail: the roads are muddy, his saddle hurts, the locals rip him off, his asthma acts...
...people found it obscene, they had a right to rip it down,” he said. “That’s perfectly true...
...Iraq and al-Qaeda. But Powell seemed to be trying to underscore risks more than prove certainties. "The nexus of poisons and terror is new," Powell said. "The nexus of Iraq and terror is old." The U.S. is edging closer to concluding that war is the only way to rip them apart. --By Romesh Ratnesar. Reported by Joshua Kucera/Serget and Douglas Waller/Washington
...across America after Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out came out for Nintendo. If you beat Tyson in Punch-Out, he’d compliment you. Now if you beat Tyson, he’d either fade into Bolivian, chew your ear off or possibly “rip out your stomach and eat [your] children...