On the Axis-of-Evil Beat with Sean

Does he know shorthand? As a cleric urged worshippers at Tehran University last week to “make America angry,” SEAN PENN jotted down notes for his real-life column in the San Francisco Chronicle. (And no, it’s not a humor column.) Penn, who visited Iraq in 2003 for the Chronicle, was in Iran in advance of the country’s elections this week. We invite the Oscar winner to give his all to this whole reporter thing when he returns to the U.S. We would also like to see Ted Koppel in a thriller.