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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Iran, the hard truth is that ethnic Persians make up only 51% of the population. The rest of the country is a mishmash of ethnic minorities, various religions, Muslim sects and semi-nomadic tribes. None has been entirely happy living under the mullahs' Shi'ite theocracy, especially Iran's Sunni citizens, which make up 9% of the population and include most of the Baluch. Iran's minorities have been susceptible to outside influences, but rarely have they felt strong enough to take on Tehran - which fears that that could change with the chaos at its borders. If, for instance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Biggest Worry: Growing Ethnic Conflict | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...Twilight” fans can sink their teeth into the newest installment in the vampire saga, penned not by Stephenie Meyer but by a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, The Harvard Lampoon...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lampoon Publishes 'Twilight' Parody | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...news article "Lampoon Publishes 'Twilight' Parody" incorrectly stated that the Harvard Lampoon is 143 years old. In fact, the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine is 133 years...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lampoon Publishes 'Twilight' Parody | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...That fact has apparently been forgotten. The very concepts behind the American economy are now frowned upon as the sources of the global recession. Instead we hear praise of China's "state capitalism" - the notion that semi-command economics can work better than Economic Man. And what of America's liberal political ideology, which used to inspire suppressed peoples everywhere? I recently gave a talk to about 30 students from China at a journalism class at a Hong Kong university. Riots had erupted in China's Xinjiang province between the indigenous Uighurs and Han Chinese immigrants only days before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Lament | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard Lampoon, must you ruin everything that's sacred?” asks the Globe. Well, we can’t remember the last time the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine did much of anything, let alone ruined something through satire, but it looks like they're giving it a try this year...

Author: By Luis Urbina | Title: EXCERPT: Lampoon's New Book | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

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