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...spirit than war fever. After the U.N. eased sanctions against Iraq in 1996, local markets grew flush with everything from Korean TVs and Japanese cars to Syrian trousers and Egyptian milk. For reasons unknown, the government recently gave families an extra month's supply of such rationed items as rice and beans. Millions of dollars of illicit revenues are sloshing through the economy, thanks to oil smuggled across the borders with Jordan, Turkey and Iran. Iraqis are thus enjoying a relatively bountiful Ramadan, the time when Muslims fast during the day but join communal feasts called iftars at sunset...
...against Saddam Hussein. The news was rushed to him not long after experts at the CIA's bin Laden unit at Langley reviewed the audiocast on al-Jazeera, the network regularly used by al-Qaeda to deliver its messages. At around 8 p.m. that day, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice called Bush with the bad news while he was in the shower. Experts were almost certain they were hearing the voice of bin Laden for the first time since U.S. agents thought they picked up a radio message from him in Tora Bora almost a year ago. When the President...
Chelo— n. Indian. Chelo is a rice dish made of basmati rice (long grained, nutty-flavored rice), that is commonly found in Iran. Chelo is made with butter and saffron, and in exceptional cases, raw egg yolk. i.e.: Iskendar often enjoyed eating at Spanish restaurants like Dali or Tapeo, as their ample poritions of tapas and paella reminded him of Iranian meze and chelo...
...team other than all-timer Dan Clemente ’01. Quiet as he may still have been, his moves screamed the very badass hoops culture Harvey had been surrounded but not engulfed by in Chicago—both because of his unassuming personality and because Brother Rice was insulated from...
...banquet at the end of his senior year at Brother Rice, Pat Richardson told Harvey that “He’d have to talk” once he got to Harvard. Maybe he’ll have to get even more vocal if he plays in Europe, or maybe getting loud in practice doesn’t mean as much when the guys on the court with you don’t speak English...