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Under new U.S. government regulations, Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, may now be able finally to publish her memoir in the U.S., Jess Bravin writes for The Wall Street Journal--"Bush Administration Drops Writers' Embargo"; Politics and Policy section; December 16, 2004; Page B2.
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"There was absolutely no indication that they were going to be re-examining their position on this until we filed our lawsuits and they saw the world-wide and uniform criticism of the Treasury's pre-existing policy," said the lawyer, Philip Lacovara, of Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, New York. The new regulations "are a checklist of all the things that we indicated in the lawsuit" were needed to allow publication of original works.
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