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Word: teheran (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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Warren Christopher and James Baker III call a joint press conference asking for both sides to "chill." But their appearance takes a sudden rancorous turn when Baker jests with reporters afterward, "With all due respect, it was Ronald Reagan's election that got our hostages out of Teheran, not some elegantly tailored twerp L.A. lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Where We Go from Here | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

Mohammad attends a Teheran school for the blind and spends each summer with his sisters, his grandmother and his widower father. The boy not only loves nature, he seems blissfully wed to its sounds, scents and textures. He wants to catch the wind, learn the secrets of stones in a stream. A blind carpenter tells him that God is invisible, but that we can feel him in everything he created. The boy's life is an urgent quest to use his sensitive, educated hands to find these signs of God, these colors of paradise, on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Visions of the Blind | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

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