Word: ruses
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...Northeast since I first came here from Texas four years ago. As a first-year, I loved Boston because it was a new experience. "More sleet!" I would yell. "More scrod! Wicked! Wicked! Wicked!" Sophomore year, I saw a downside--that accent was really not just an elaborate ruse. Now, in my senior year, I'm watching my friends take jobs in New York and Boston, and it seems these places are unavoidable on the path to success. Problem is, after three years I'm sick of the Northeast. I want to go back home, where the best thing...
There is something wrong with this picture. Cops in Atlanta say Al-Amin's devout image is a ruse. Federal agents have suspected him of gunrunning since 1994, when two members of his congregation were convicted of illegally shipping nearly 1,000 pistols to a Muslim group in New York City, but they have never obtained enough evidence to charge him. A year later, Al-Amin was accused of shooting a 23-year-old Atlanta man, but the charges were dropped after the victim claimed police had pressured him into falsely naming Al-Amin as the shooter. Such brushes with...