Should Iranian diplomats wear creased pants? (AP via Yahoo! News) "The Ayatollah Begs to Differ — The Paradox of Modern Iran" (Doubleday. 273 pages. $24.95), by Hooman Majd: Should Iranian diplomats pursue their duties in neatly creased trousers, as their Western counterparts tend to do? us.rd.yahoo.com
Should Iranian diplomats wear creased pants? (San Francisco Chronicle) "The Ayatollah Begs to Differ _ The Paradox of Modern Iran" (Doubleday. 273 pages. $24.95), by Hooman Majd: Should Iranian diplomats pursue their duties in neatly creased trousers, as their Western counterparts tend to do? Probably not. It's hearsay, but... us.rd.yahoo.com
Customer Service (Brandon Sun) Should Iranian diplomats pursue their duties in neatly creased trousers, as their western counterparts tend to do? Probably not. It's hearsay, but author Hooman Majd, son of a former Iranian ambassador, says high-level advice comes from a pamphlet published at the Iranian Foreign Ministry. us.rd.yahoo.com
Author Hooman Majd explains peculiarities of Iranians' temperament (Jam! Showbiz) "The Ayatollah Begs to Differ - The Paradox of Modern Iran" (Doubleday) us.rd.yahoo.com
Loud and Proud Mizrachi Voices (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles) On the last night before her family would flee Libya in 1967, Gina Bublil Waldman recalls that she had to choose between taking her only warm sweater or a photo album with the words "Souvenir of Libya" on the cover. us.rd.yahoo.com
America polarizes on Islam (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) Georgetown University professor John L. Esposito jokes that he owes his career to the leader of the Iranian Revolution. Photo caption: John L. Esposito talks to IPFW students Wednesday. He was the first Omnibus Lecture Series speaker this school year. Photo by Clint Keller | The Journal Gazette us.rd.yahoo.com
Scoop: Nothin’ but love during ‘Housewives’ shoot (MSNBC) Any backstage infighting among the women of Wisteria Lane appears to have ceased, and the new era of peace was evident during the stars' recent cover shoot for TV Guide. us.rd.yahoo.com
New York Jews favor McCain over Obama (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles) McCain leads Obama ... wait for it ... by 22 percentage points—54 to 32. Of those, according to Steve Greenberg, the spokesman for the Siena poll, 77 were Jews, or 12 percent of the sample. That is Siena’s best guess of the size of the Jewish vote in New York state in November. us.rd.yahoo.com
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