Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...implications of his overflowing subject matter. Still, this is a book of many pleasures, not the least of which is the credibly fraught bond between its two protagonists: Patrick Keane, a scholarship student at a New England prep school, and his roommate, the Afrophilic son of a rich and corrupt white Southern family, the Savages (hence the unfortunate title...
...including his exact links with the governments of Sudan and Iran or with convicted terrorists like Egyptian Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, now in a U.S. prison. However, he disavowed any involvement in the Riyadh bombing and the recent suicide attacks in Israel. "It is no surprise to me that corrupt regimes would make such charges," he says...
Despite his denials, bin Laden remains a grave concern to those "corrupt regimes." He is, as a U.S. official said, a "big fish," since his heroic reputation gives him influence. According to this official, "Bin Laden is the kind of guy who can go to someone and say, 'I need you to write out a six-figure check,' and he gets it on the spot. He hits up Islamic businessmen who in some cases may not know where their money is going. A lot of it isn't going to rebuild mosques in Bosnia or feed starving Muslims in Somalia...
...knows what it means to be caught red-handed, but not every judge does. The case was thrown out in January by Federal Judge Harold Baer Jr., who ruled that the cops lacked "probable cause" to search the bags. In a neighborhood where the police are known for being "corrupt, abusive and violent," Baer said, sprinting from the scene wasn't suspicious behavior at all. It was prudent...
...hardship, but this must not override the real concern about a potential large-scale spread of the disease in humans. Once the genie is out of bottle, it is hard to put it back in. The potentially contaminated beef may reach Third World countries. There is no shortage of corrupt politicians who want to make big bucks at any cost. The whole world has shrunk to the point where there are no secure borders. ANWAR UL HAQUE Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia Via E-mail...