The Lowdown on Bollinger’s, Set to Open at Anacapa and Cota Sometime in 2008 (Santa Barbara Independent)
During the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2007, a fortunate few had the chance to get down at the Al Gore after party in the Anacota Building, so named as it’s at the corner of Anacapa and Cota streets
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The splendour of Islam (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Among the many books on Islam's cultural heritage that have appeared on the market in recent years, two books on the bookshelf catch the eye: Islam: Art and Architecture and Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of the Architecture and Its Culture.
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Iran Test Signals Resolve, Not Military Breakthrough (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)
July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Iran was trying to demonstrate its resolve over a possible confrontation with the U.S. and Israel, not unveiling a new military capability with its test of a long- range missile, American and Israeli analysts and officials said.
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Digitized manuscripts: a call to the mysterious world of old books (Zaman Online)
A manuscript is far more valuable than a printed book.
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Iran Parliament to Debate Death Penalty for Bloggers (ReadWriteWeb)
The Iranian parliament is set to debate a draft bill that would add a number of crimes to the list of those that can result in execution, among them "establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy." Apostasy means the abandonment of a religion. The official Iranian news agency reports that the bill is intended to "toughen punishment for harming mental security ...
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WSJ(6/30) Youth In Iran Embrace Self-Help Movement (Zawya)
TEHRAN, Iran -- When Hassan Bakhtiar couldn't find a job last year, his mother told him to pray and read the Quran. Instead, the 25-year-old aerospace engineer dropped in on a packed appearance by Alireza Azmandian, Iran's most famous motivational speaker and self-help guru.
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Calendar Girls picks and clicks for June 28 - July 4 (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
Operation Moses, the 1985 mission that airlifted thousands of persecuted Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel, was a turbulent endeavor riddled with cultural, religious and personal conflicts. Families were torn apart, identities questioned and laws rewritten.
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Letters to the editor (Exeter News-Letter)
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