Manhattan Moment: The Arab Winter begins

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It is fitting — and ironic — that Salman Rushdie’s memoir of his life in hiding is being published this month. The book chronicles the “new, darker existence” forced on Rushdie after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa calling for his death for having written the novel “Satanic Verses.”

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