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Still, in the end, Christians and Jews get a favored place in Islamic tradition as "people of the Book." The Koran repeatedly says they're eligible for salvation...
What was it like to spend time together? Our core interviews for the book took place over 10 days in a basement apartment on the South Side of Chicago. I was just pulling these stories from his childhood out of him. It was a very emotional process - he would break down crying, telling me about his mother going crazy and his dad abandoning him. That's when the book sort of took a different direction. Yes, it's a book about counterfeiting, but then I started seeing it as the story of a man and his life, and how those...
Mongolian Passage. If you'd like to ride horseback where you've never ridden before, try Nomadic Expeditions' eight-day trek through the forests and meadows of Hovsgol province in Mongolia. The Northern Mongolia on Horseback odyssey takes place Aug. 10-24 and is designed for the more experienced horseback rider. It includes visits with nomadic families and with Tsaatans - members of the Turkic-speaking Tuvinian ethnic group known as Dukha, who herd reindeer. Rates start at $3,415, including meals, guides, horses and ground transportation...
...fearing that removing the external "threat" against which it was constructed will fatally undermine the Iranian political system. Ahmadinejad's critics charged during the campaign that his provocative antics had undermined Iran's standing in the world, but he certainly functions to restrain any movement toward rapprochement, keeping in place the fear of the "Great Satan" that has been an organizing principle of Iran's authoritarian clerical regime...
...interesting aspect of the Iranian case is not just that the mullahs have demonstrated that they no longer place any store on allowing the election of a reform-minded President to satisfy popular discontent. It is that the Chinese option is not open to them. China's long boom has been dependent on its growing integration into the global economy. But so long as Iran maintains its nuclear ambitions, it will always be subject to sanctions from the most developed economies, principally that of the U.S. Without easy access to markets in the outside world, for both imports and exports...