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...Moreover, in attempting to point a finger at Britain for its troubles, the Iranian government can tap a rich vein of mistrust for its former imperial ruler. Many Iranians remember the British-brokered Treaty of Gulistan, under which Iran was forced to give up land to Russia in 1813, as one of the most humiliating episodes in their country's history. Hostilities sparked again in 1941, when the U.K. invaded Iran and exiled the country's leader on suspicion of pro-German sympathies. Furthering the mistrust, when Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq dared to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company...
...iPhone's operating system is called Find My iPhone. Say you're married to someone who loses her phone. And let's say she'd had the phone for only two weeks when this happened. Had this feature been available then, instead of resorting to recriminations and finger-pointing, you could have simply gone to your computer, issued a command and voila! - the missing phone would start beeping. (Even if the sound had been turned off. And it's an obnoxious beep too, like the ping of sonar.) But wait, there's more! The iPhone will also show...
...orthopedist. "He said he was pretty sure it was my Achilles, but I wanted an MRI to be sure. He just said 'fine' and gave me the prescription." I spoke with Frank and showed him the powerlessness of his ankle - the squeeze test. I even had him put his finger into the divot in his tendon. I tried to be gentle about bringing up the s word - surgery - but when I finally broached it, he shot back with, "But you haven't even looked at the MRI yet. I heard the ads - it's the new stand-up unit. Listen...
...That attack alienated at least one of Ahmadinejad's supporters. "It was particularly ugly of the President to point the finger at Moussavi's wife, who is an honorable lady with a résumé of service to the country," said a chemical-engineering student. "I was an Ahmadinejad supporter, but the face he showed last night really turned me off. I'm voting for Moussavi...
...former] no-fire zone cannot be an independent voice. When somebody was talking from the small area under the Tigers, it was not an independent voice. There was a pistol pointed at the head when they are talking to BCC, CNN or al-Jazeera," Samarasinghe said, with his index finger firmly pointed at his temple...