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That, Iranians may be. But such gentleness should not lead Western visitors to think support for the values of the Islamic revolution has run its course. Every day the Mahestan shopping mall just off Revolution Street fills with students from the nearby universities. The mall is popular with Basijis--the young volunteers who fill the ranks of government-sponsored demonstrations. When they grow up, they join the government and the Revolutionary Guards corps. The Mahestan mall sells mostly religious paraphernalia--Koranic software, recordings of religious chants, speeches from modern Islamic heroes like Khomeini, Ahmadinejad and Lebanese Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah...
...longer save our compatriot. We are going to try to punish his killers.' RADEK SIKORSKI, Polish Foreign Minister, after the Taliban released a video of the beheading of a Polish geologist in Pakistan. It was the first such killing of a Western citizen there since the 2002 murder of Daniel Pearl...
...when depicting biological collections.“Egg and Nest,” Purcell’s latest exhibition, opened yesterday. It will be on display through March 15. The exhibition features images of the eggs and nests of various bird species. Photographed from a collection of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology in California, the pictures attempt to enhance the visual beauty of natural history collections. For example, they emphasize the aesthetic attributes of the eggs and nests, from their color to their architectural design.Though Werby believes that these photographs can be “windows into natural history...
...many Iranians, the revolution of 1979 was a declaration of independence from years of meddling by the Western powers who had been instrumental in installing and propping up the Shah's regime. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the opportunity to reaffirm a nationalist message, even as he addressed the recurring theme of Iran's relationship with the U.S. and its allies...
...university," he said, his hand holding the poster shaking profusely. Before long, he was reminded by a friendly Revolutionary Guard officer that the square was not a place for "election propaganda." Another man passing by asked accusingly, "Why are you telling this to the foreigner?" and pointed to a Western journalist listening in on the conversation...