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Solving the riddle

In Los Angeles and New York and elsewhere in the West, families who had left Iran \”for the summer,\” to\”wait out the troubles\” and \”return in time for the kids to start school in September\” realized there was no going back.

N.Y. nostalgia with an egg cream chaser

\”It\’s an attempt at a bit of nostalgia,\” said Abe Glazer (Haaren High School, \’49) as he shuffled into a courtyard ringed with banners identifying high schools — DeWitt Clinton, Erasmus Hall High, New Dorp — where former bobby-soxers sat with Shofar hot dogs or lined up at a vintage Carvel Ice Cream cart as a sextet of alumni/musicians whomped out big band sounds.

‘Live from Tehran’

It\’s 8 p.m. on a Wednesday, and I\’m at the studios of KIRN — a Persian-language AM radio station on Barham Boulevard near Universal Studios. I\’m a guest on a program called \”Live From Hollywood.\”

Hero With a Thousand Faces

The 60th birthday of Bob Dylan (né Robert Zimmerman) has created a bull market in baby-boomer nostalgia and soul-searching.

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