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...Moreover, in attempting to point a finger at Britain for its troubles, the Iranian government can tap a rich vein of mistrust for its former imperial ruler. Many Iranians remember the British-brokered Treaty of Gulistan, under which Iran was forced to give up land to Russia in 1813, as one of the most humiliating episodes in their country's history. Hostilities sparked again in 1941, when the U.K. invaded Iran and exiled the country's leader on suspicion of pro-German sympathies. Furthering the mistrust, when Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq dared to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company...
...good company. More than 5 million unmarried couples cohabit in the U.S., nearly eight times the number in 1970, and a record-breaking 40% of babies born in 2007 had unmarried parents (that's up 25% from 2002). Sure, there are plenty of baby-daddies in the Levi Johnston vein, i.e., young and accidental. But nonmarital births have increased the most among women ages 25 to 39, doubling since 1980, thanks in part to a small but growing demographic a sociologist has dubbed committed unmarrieds (CUs). These are the happily unwed - think Brad and Angelina, Oprah and Stedman, Goldie...
...frame in terms of religious tradition or current mission,” said panelist Willis J. Jenkins, assistant professor of social ethics at Yale Divinity School. “Environmental issues have to make theological sense. They have to make a community come alive.” In that vein, each panelist discussed practical ways to describe environmentalism in terms of religious faith. “It can be a spiritual practice to turn off the light,” said panelist Reverend Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, an Episcopal priest and member of the leadership council for Religious Witness...
...creator of Rover. Rover uses GPS to pinpoint locations of interest according to the user’s specifications. It sorts all hits by distance from the user and displays relevant contact information for the selected establishment as well as maps of the surrounding area. Rover follows in the vein of similar iTunes applications at Duke and Stanford, but, according to co-creator Alexander G. Bick ’10, “Stanford and Duke have applications that are more focused on student academic life than student social life”—providing an interface to access...
...instance, Wray flexes all of his considerable writerly muscle getting into Will’s schizoid mind and voice— obviously disturbed and yet disarmingly intelligent, with a palpable vein of violence in his otherwise gentle personality—but the fact that the character is mentally ill does half of his dirty work for him. There is no need to drum up sympathy for a teenager with schizophrenia, even if he did throw his best friend onto the subway tracks...