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	<title>Mir Tamim Ansary - Afghan American Author and Lecturer</title>
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		<title>languages dying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[          Languages Dying. Big Deal.     Right now, someplace on Earth, the last speaker of an ancient language is approaching death. When this person passes away, alas and alack! Another language will be gone! Actually, there is &#8230; <a href="http://www.mirtamimansary.com/languages-dying/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking Back     9/11 and the American Empire   Ten years have passed since those airplanes crashed into the  World Trade Center.  A journalist just asked me what I thought about this past decade from an Afghan American perspective: how had &#8230; <a href="http://www.mirtamimansary.com/looking-back/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Disguises, Weddings, and Escapes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[       Disguises, Weddings, and Escapes      Osama’s death and the beginning of the American withdrawal are not the only news from Afghanistan. Here is a sampler of striking stories from April of this year&#8211;odd new items that &#8230; <a href="http://www.mirtamimansary.com/disguises/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Osama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Osama&#8217;s Dead   Big news: U.S. commandos have killed Osama bin Laden. He’s certifiably dead. Never mind the adage that goes:  &#8221;Don&#8217;t believe anything until it has been officially denied.&#8221;  I belive this news, in part because even Al Qaeda &#8230; <a href="http://www.mirtamimansary.com/osama/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Canyonlands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Canyonlands   Forty-five years ago, I went to Canyonlands, a place in southern Utah. I was a student at Colorado Rocky Mountain School then, and the school traditionally took us kids on two camping trips a year, one in the &#8230; <a href="http://www.mirtamimansary.com/canyonlands/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble with Basketball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    The Trouble with Basketball   So I’ve been sort of watching the NBA playoffs and I have something to say; and I warn you, don’t read this unless you’re such a basketball junkie, you could spend hours discussing the &#8230; <a href="http://www.mirtamimansary.com/trouble-with-basketball/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Constitutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why Constitutions Succeed — and Fail          We live in the Age of the Constitution. Ninety-four of the world’s country constitutions—almost half of them, in short—have been written since 1990. And many of those have already been seriously altered or &#8230; <a href="http://www.mirtamimansary.com/constitution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dumb and Dumber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   Kids Today: Dumb and Dumber?   Are America’s students getting dumber? Well duh! Read the papers, dude! Talk to teachers. Pick up on what people are saying: Test scores are dropping like stones in a well. Illiteracy is rising &#8230; <a href="http://www.mirtamimansary.com/dumb-and-dumber/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Arab Uprising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some Thoughts on the Arab Uprising   When I ponder the events of the last month in the Arab world, I’m reminded of Herbert Stein’s remark: “Anything that can’t go on forever, won’t.” From Morocco to Bahrain,  kings and rulers &#8230; <a href="http://www.mirtamimansary.com/arab-uprising/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Last Fall in Afghanistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Fall in Afghanistan   If you follow the news of any place daily, you start to see some patterns. I have been following events in Afghanistan on a daily basis since mid-August, and in that time I’ve seen stories &#8230; <a href="http://www.mirtamimansary.com/last-fall-in-afghanistan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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