Tara Taghizadeh

Columns

Global Graffiti

The Anchor Wars

[2.May.06] :. Their best anchors gone, now, their viewership bailing for Internet sources, US network news programs find themselves drifting.

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We Meet Again, Mr... Bond?

[8.Mar.06] :. Will audiences bond with the new blond bond? Or will this Bond bomb?

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What Keeps Me Burning

[29.Sep.05] :. We've all got to die someday. 'Till then, why not light(en) up?

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Iran: Dancing in the Spotlight

[25.Jul.05] :. A joke among Iranian exiles is that since the revolution, Iran takes one step forward and three steps back. With Ahmadinejad's election, it appears Iran is doing this shuffle, again.

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Don't Shoot the Messenger

[1.Jun.05] :. Taghizadeh defends Al Jazeera, the best source for news from and for the Arab world.

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Global Graffiti   Another Royal Mess

Global Graffiti   Iranian-American Like Me

Global Graffiti   Crouching Tiger: The Republicans' Duplicitous Position on Iran

Global Graffiti   The Politics of a Pill

Global Graffiti   Presidential Showdown: "Southern Efficiency" vs. "Northern Charm"?

Global Graffiti   15 Minutes of Less-Than Perfect, or Romantic, Fame

Global Graffiti   Reign of Doom: Iran's Revolution Turns 25

Global Graffiti   The Kennedy Mystique, 40 Years Later

Global Graffiti   Warning: You've Been Flash Mobbed!

Global Graffiti   Catch Them If You Can

Global Graffiti   Remembering the Rat Pack: When "Cool" Was King

Global Graffiti   Washington Watch: Greetings from the City of Power

Global Graffiti   You're So Bleedin' Bourgeois!

Global Graffiti   San Francisco Daze

Global Graffiti   Admit You're Happy, Dammit

Reviews

Books

Hoax: Why Americans are Suckered by White House Lies by Nicholas von Hoffman

[21.Sep.04] :. Von Hoffman rings the death knell for the 'American Century', claiming that despite its current braggadocio and so-called victories in Afghanistan and Iraq, the US has failed in its effort to bring any stability to the region.

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Condensed Knowledge by Will Pearson, Mangesh Hattikudur, and Elizabeth Hunt

[10.Aug.04] :. Pearson and Maloney credit the success of both the magazine and the book to the original motto: that of successfully 'blurring the lines between education and entertainment'.

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Everyone Comes to Elaine's by A. E. Hotchner

[27.Apr.04] :. Henry Kissinger once said that the best thing about celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. But what happens if celebrities bore each other?"

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Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill by Jessica Stern

[24.Feb.04] :. Perhaps the most telling sentence in the book is at the very beginning: 'Religious terrorism arises from pain and loss and from impatience with a God who is slow to respond to our plight, who doesn't answer.'"

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The Rat Pack: Neon Nights With the Kings of Cool by Lawrence J. Quirk and William Schoell

[11.Nov.03] :. These guys were the first to embody the definition of "cool," and no entertainer since has managed to successfully emulate or capture their powerful allure.

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Books   A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Books   What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News by Eric Alterman

Books   Boonville by Robert Mailer Anderson

Books   Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones by Stephen Davis

Books   In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches

Books   Digital Hustlers: Living Large and Falling Hard in Silicon Alley by Casey Kait and Stephen Weiss

Books   The Psychology of the Sopranos: Love, Death, Desire, and Betrayal in America's Favorite Gangster Fam

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Books   Bad Fads by Mark A. Long

Books   A Great, Silly Grin: The British Satire Boom of the 1960s by Humphrey Carpenter

Music    The Sex Pistols: self-titled

Books   Paper Moon by Joe David Brown

Books   Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of the Cinema by Alison McMahan

Film   Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones (2002)

Books   You Know Better by Tina McElroy Ansa

Books   Seek: Reports From The Edges of America & Beyond by Denis Johnson

Books   Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan by Mary Anne Weaver

Books   Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush by Frank Bruni

Books   The Lantern Bearers by Ronald Frame

 
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