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September 18-22, 2000 / Shahrivar 28-Mehr 1, 1379

Today

* U.S.-Iran: Clinton legacy?
* Poem: What does this mean?

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* Visa: Gisheh-ye shomaareh-ye 2
* Sports: Varzeshemoonam zoori-ye
* Revolution: Reverberations
* Islands: The Tonbs
* Racism: Okay, I'm a racist
* Los Angeles: Doctor... Doctor
* Cover story: Googoosh live!


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Friday
September 22, 2000

U.S.-Iran

Clinton legacy?
Clinton & the Iranian-American community

By Guive Mirfendereski
September 22, 2000
The Iranian

A while back a friend asked my opinion about a piece in which he had compared the reported search by presidents Clinton and Khatami for some sort of elusive legacy. Exhorting Clinton to work harder toward normalizing Iran-U.S. relations, the piece ended with a very probing question: What is Clinton's legacy? To this query, I quipped, "A blow job or two by Monica Lewinsky." Then, I got to thinking about all this by some in the Iranian-American community to measure Clinton's political legacy in terms of Iran-U.S. relations. Flippantly, I fired back at my friend: "Never mind Clinton's legacy, what about Khatami's?" >>> GO TO FEATURE

Poetry

What's does this mean?
Poem

By Siamak Kiarostami
September 22, 2000
The Iranian

My questions are out of order so

I let my lips press arbitrary answers

all over your body that very same night

you changed my name.

Hours of this interrogation had passed

We had certainly moved past any logic-

Begging for understanding >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Thursday
September 21, 2000

Visa

By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
September 21, 2000
The Iranian
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Sports

By Mohandes
September 21, 2000
The Iranian
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Wednesday
September 20, 2000

Revolution

Reverberations
An outsider's perspective of the revolution

By Sayed S. Husein
September 20, 2000
The Iranian

The revolution in Iran was seen as a possible catalyst for redemption by a large segment of the Muslim population worldwide. The revolution gave them hope; after all a Muslim state could be in accordance with the tenants of the religion, and still be modern and vibrant. There was certain admiration, even if guarded, for the way people succeeded in removing a well-entrenched monarch. Off course not everyone saw this revolution in such favorable light. Many felt that the leaders of the revolution, would unleash repression of another kind in the name of religion, as the task of running a modern state would be beyond them. Many others were hostile towards the revolution purely on ideological grounds >>> GO TO FEATURE

Islands

The Tonbs
The Haute Couture connection

September 20, 2000
The Iranian

Ancient Greek historian Heredotus wrote that in Xerxes' army that invaded Asia Minor was a group of "islanders who came from the Erythraean sea [Persian Gulf], where they inhabited the islands to which the king sends those whom he banishes, [and they] wore a dress and arms almost exactly like the Median." (G. Rawlinson, The History of Herodotus (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1858), vol.2, p.150)

If the Tonbs contributed any men to Xerxes' army is not known, but either island would have been sufficiently desolate and unsuitable to be a place of exile >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Tuesday
September 19, 2000

Racism

Okay, I'm a racist
I must shamefully admit that I don't like Arabs

By dAyi Hamid
Sepetmber 19, 2000
The Iranian

Are we better human beings because we are Iranians? Then why do we treat foreigners like Swedes treat non-Europeans? If we are superior to other races, why do we make the same mistakes? Why do we look down at Pakistanis? Why do we belittle Arabs? Are these the symptoms of having pure Aryan blood? If our race makes us better human beings, then we have to prove it by treating foreigners better than other nations do.

Having said all that I must shamefully admit that I don't like Arabs. yeki biAd bezaneh tu sar-e man >>> GO TO FEATURE

Los Angeles

Doctor... Doctor...
Dude! Eeverybody is a doctor here

By Siamack Baniameri
September 19, 2000
The Iranian

I was in Los Angles attending a seminar. It was a week-long event which ended at in the early afternoon on a Friday. Maziyar, my old high school buddy lives in Los Angles. I always get in touch with him when I'm in the neighborhood. I called his cellphone from my hotel room. I told him I was in town and leaving for the airport in couple of hours. I asked him if he could meet me for a cup of coffee and some gossiping. He tells me that he is working late but he insists I stay an extra day. He was having a pool party on Saturday and had invited friends over at his house. I kept telling him that I was leaving in two hours. But he insisted and insisted till I gave up. What the hell. I can handle another sunny, beautiful day in L.A. >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Monday
September 18, 2000

Cover story

Googoosh live!
Washington DC

Photographs by Jahanshah Javid
September 18, 2000
The Iranian

Googoosh in concert in front of 14,000 fans at the MCI Center in Washington, DC, Saturday September 16, 2000: >>> GO TO FEATURE

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