<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Good work!<div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; 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font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; ">D. Charles<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></span></font></span></i></b></span></font></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Gill Sans" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: 'Gill Sans'; "><i style="font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-style: italic; font-size: 14.6667px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; ">(Chuck</span></span></span></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Gill Sans'; 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font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Reza Aslan <<a href="mailto:reza.aslan@ucr.edu">reza.aslan@ucr.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">January 6, 2009 11:40:46 AM PST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">chuck <<a href="mailto:chuck.whitney@ucr.edu">chuck.whitney@ucr.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>Just a brief note to say that I am now a columnist at the Daily Beast. My first two columns can be seen here<br><br>1. How Opium Can Save Afghanistan<br><br><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-12-19/how-opium-can-save-afghanistan">http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-12-19/how-opium-can-save-afghanistan</a><br><br>2. Which One's the Terrorist?<br><br>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-02/which-ones-the-terrorist<br><br><br><br>Reza Aslan<br>Assistant Professor of Creative Writing<br>University of California, Riverside<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>