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Although the review committee would deal in particular with CHUL and CUE, Fox said it could conceivably consider reforms of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). The faculty formed CRR in the wake of the 1969 student strike to discipline protesters...
...birth date is actually May 17, 1900, as Tehran newspapers assert, or whether his wife of 50 years?Quesiran, or Khadijah, as different spellings have it?is his first or second spouse. Almost all Western translations of his basic prerevolutionary teachings are of doubtful authenticity or accuracy. In particular, a howlingly funny French translation of some of his remarks?dealing with, among other things, the proper attitude of Muslims toward the meat of a camel that has been sodomized?is composed of random pronouncements from a thick book, deliberately excerpted out of context to make the Ayatullah look ridiculous...
...definitely do not want to impose Islamic values on the West. Islam will never be imposed?neither on the West, nor on the East, nor on any particular individual or region. Islam is opposed to coercion. Islam stands for freedom in all its dimensions. It is up to the people them selves to accept or reject...
Upper-class women in particular feel that their career hopes will be curtailed by the revolution. Says one elementary school teacher: "Women are being thrown out of their jobs on all manner of pretexts and being replaced by men. The only reason I'm still employed is that only reason I'm still employed is that there is an extreme shortage of teachers." A housewife with four children acidly sums up Khomeini's vision of female life: "We are supposed to be good mothers and then go to heaven. Very holy but not very practical...
Thus the picture that emerges from this book is of Pompeii on a far vaster scale. The photos are imbued with more than the familiar charm of things past; they are reflections of Russia's interrupted life story. That would explain the particular poignancy of the emotion experienced by the book's editor, Chloe Obolensky, as she studied the many photos she had unearthed from various libraries and private collections. She recalls in her preface that as the volume took shape, she was moved to see the photographs assume an unexpected "coherence and truth." Few readers can fail...