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Over the summer, Monsoon Kitchen was provisionally replaced by American Barbecue, a dining option featuring Southern style food, according to Crista Martin, Harvard University Dining Services director for marketing and communications. The seasonally appropriate menu offered an assortment of meal options including barbecued chicken, broccoli, pulled pork, baked beans, coleslaw, corn on the cob, potato salad, and watermelon...
Beyond the lavish palaces of the last Shah in north Tehran, beyond the sweeping Enqelab (or Revolution) Street, which cuts through the city center, and even beyond the southern outskirts of the city's rambling tenements, looms the Islamic Republic's most notable landmark: the $2 billion tomb of its founder, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Though situated on a desolate piece of desert convenient only if you're headed to the international airport, the enormous scaffolding-enclosed shrine, still under construction 20 years after the Supreme Leader's death, is an essential part of the pilgrimage for devout Iranian Shi'ites...
...film of man in extremis, seen in extreme close-up. Firth's professor, disconsolate over the death of his longtime beau in a car crash, meticulously rehearses his own suicide, by gunshot, but can't find a practical or aesthetically elegant way to carry it off. The Southern California setting casts an orange glow on Firth's handsome, mourning face, and lends A Single Man a delicate warmth that should touch all who see the picture. Firth may not have been the most famous actor to tread the Lido carpet, but don't be surprised if he earns an Oscar...
...raid by U.S. special forces has taken out a man believed to be one of al-Qaeda's top operatives in East Africa. Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a 28-year-old Kenyan, was killed along with several others when helicopter gunships fired on his convoy in southern Somalia. A member of the nation's al-Shabaab insurgency, Nabhan was linked to the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and was wanted for a 2002 attack on a seaside hotel in Kenya and a failed plot to blow up an Israeli airliner. Somali militants have vowed retaliation...
...Sunday. "It's a tinderbox, this place, ready to explode at any time." After a cross-border attack on the recent Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Israeli army released a statement warning that it would "respond harshly to any attempt to break the calm in Israel's southern communities." (See a video of Gazans celebrating the end of Ramadan...