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Reading Blogs In Tehran

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Thursday, June 16, 2005

With a population that is 70 percent under age 25 (and a voting age of 15), Iran’s younger voters will play a big role in elections there on Friday. Many of them are turning to blogs to avoid the mullahs’ stifling grip on public discourse.

Live from Iran

Hossein Derakhshan, Iranian blogger, writes "Editor: Myself: A weblog on Iran, technology and pop culture"
» Hossein's weblog
and
Ivan Watson, NPR Correspondent (in Tehran for election)
» Ivan Watson's bio
and
Roya Boroumand, Historian, director of the Bouroumand Foundation ...

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What's Good for the Goose

Lee Hall, legal director of Friends of Animals
-says foie gras is cruel, anyway you cut, spread, or spoon it
» Friends of Animals
and
Michael Ginor, co-founder, co-owner, and president of Hudson Valley Foie Gras
-says"inhumane" is a relative term
» ...

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Book Country

Christopher Hitchens,(photo right) book review columnist for The Atlantic Monthly, contributing editor to Vanity Fair and author, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (Harper Collins, 2005)
- on current events in the Middle East as well as American's founding father

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Prison's Other Victims

Elizabeth Gaynes, Director of the Osborne Association, a group
» Osborne Association
and
Liz Garbus,Director and producer of Xiara's Song, a documentary about children of incarcerated parents, to be broadcast on Cinemax on June 19
» Xiara's Song website
-discuss ...

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Photo album: Hitchens, Liz Gaines and Liz Garbus


Christopher Hitchens lays off the cigs in the nonsmoking confines of our studio


Liz Garbus (l) and Liz Gaines (r) share the plight of the children of the incarcerated

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Feedback: The Downing Street Memo, Foie Gras

Did Brian pique your curiosity with his reference to Emma Bloomberg's wedding last weekend (foie gras was the connection, it was apparently served at the ceremony)? Veiled Conceit and The Politicker have some interesting speculation about the mayor's daughter's nuptials.

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Both "Downing Street Memos" only ...

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