Dear Mr. President,
Welcome back home from the Middle East where you tried in vain to make a peace settlement and to organize countries against terrorism.
There is no doubt that your intention for peace is genuine and with earnest and your determination for fighting terrorism is admirable. However, it is the incompetence of your appointees who make all those efforts fruitless.
While you were away from home, there was a demonstration or better to say a mass whistle blowing in front of the building of Voice of America just a few blocks from the White House.
The demonstration or whistle blowing was held in protest to a cockamamie programming by the Persian Service of Voice of America.
The bizarre situation at the Persian Service is so obvious that even the Republican Senator from Oklahoma wrote you, and to the State Department, requesting your urgent attention. Not only that, The Washington Post has published numerous articles in that regard.
It is note worthy that the Persian Service is the only foreign broadcasting that is not filtered by the Islamic Republic of Iran because of childish contents, and programming.
Why million of dollars are spent in this way?
Because the service is managed by a woman who has received the promotion not because of her intelligence, education, journalism background or merit but the use of unethical means which I ashamed to mention. Sheila Gandji, the manager, is not even able to read or write Persian language and doesn't know the history or the culture of Iran. In addition she has hired a man as her assistant who has a widely known filthy background in embezzlement, charlatanism and thieveries. He, Kambiz Mahmoudi, while in the pay roll of the CIA stole money from that agency and was fired from his job in Radio Nejat which was broadcasting from Cairo Egypt back in mid 80's. Prior to that he received a substantial amount of money from the government of Iran and did not report it to the IRS.
These are facts known to everybody in Iranian communities abroad and inside of Iran. And because of these reasons, the Persian Service is immune of filtering in Iran because it actually helps the Mullahs to show how the U.S. Administration is reckless when it comes to communicate to a country with old history and the people with proud culture with unbelievable laughable programs and with such disreputable and infamous characters.
It is true that your administration will end in just few months. But I would like to bring these facts to your attention that the reasons behind your low popularity rate and why your tireless efforts to form a united alliance in combating terrorism are failing.
If your administration is unable or reluctant to clean up an organization which supposedly is responsible for conveying the ideals of this great nation, then you should not expect respect and cooperation from the others.
With respect,
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Ranking schools within the list is always controversial, and this year a group of 38 superintendents from five states wrote to ask that their schools be excluded from the calculation. "It is impossible to know which high schools are 'the best' in the nation," their letter read, in part. "Determining whether different schools do or don't offer a high quality of education requires a look at many different measures, including students' overall academic accomplishments and their subsequent performance in college, and taking into consideration the unique needs of their communities."
In the end, the superintendents agreed to provide the data we sought, which is, after all, public information. (A list of all the schools can be found on Newsweek.com, along with a list of elite schools, whose lack of average students disqualified them from the main list.) There is, in our view, no real dispute here; we are all seeking the same thing, which is schools that better serve our children and our nation by encouraging students to tackle tough subjects under the guidance of gifted teachers. And if we keep working toward that goal, someday, perhaps, a list won't be necessary.
With Lorraine Ali, Gina Pace, Dan Brillman and Peg Tyre
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