Iraq
Late one night this past March in the Babylon Hotel, on the banks of the Euphrates River, Fern Holland sat alone in her office writing e-mail -- unwinding, she wrote to a friend, with a glass of Johnnie Walker and listening to Michelle Branch singing "All You Wanted." She had many things on her mind, and among them was figuring out where she could get a bulldozer so she could help two Iraqi women get their land back…
Read MoreSuppose you're an architect, ambitious and eager to build. You're teaching theories of design at a university. You push your students to think and ask questions. You see yourself as an activist, aware of and inspired by ideas of civic responsibility. One day the department chairman tells you that he has received a report…
Read MoreFor more than 30 years, the Mujahedeen Khalq, or People's Mujahedeen, has survived and operated on the margins of history and the slivers of land that Saddam Hussein and French governments have proffered it.
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