Word: abdul
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Nobody would think the worse of him if Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz al Saud joined the selling stampede. The tumbling value of Citicorp alone has cost him, as the banking company's largest shareholder, $640 million by the time the clock strikes noon on Wall Street. But to Alwaleed the only question is: At which precise moment should he strike? He and his advisers have spent six months studying 40 companies. Now prices are becoming more of a bargain by the second. So many stocks, so little time. Alwaleed sits elbows up at a cockpit-style desk...
Alwaleed's parents divorced when he was barely school age. Growing up with his mother's family in swinging, pre-civil war Beirut made him into a wild and, at 189 lbs., seriously paunchy teenager. Talal yanked him back to Riyadh and reality and installed him at the King Abdul Aziz Military Academy. Alwaleed credits the experience for giving him his strong personal discipline. Later, business and social science degrees from Menlo College in California and Syracuse University gave Alwaleed the know-how to make his start...
...YORK: Six men down, one to go. After the conviction Wednesday of Ramzi Yousef and Eyad Ismoil in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing ? plus the four co-conspirators jailed back in 1994 ? prosecutors vowed they would not rest until the final suspect was caught: Abdul Yasin, a native of Bloomington, Indiana, who has been charged with mixing the chemicals for the bomb...
Just what the Israelis were up to outside their zone in Lebanon remained unexplained. Lebanese sources speculated that the Israelis intended to snatch Sheik Abdul-Amir Kabalan, who has a house in Insariyeh and is influential in Amal, one of the Shi'ite militia groups. Israel has carried out such kidnappings before, but military insiders downplayed this theory. They hinted instead that the mission was to plant explosive devices in the area, targeted either at a nearby Hizballah post or an Amal encampment...
...Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a Muslim, and Yisrael Lau, one of Israel's two chief rabbis, doesn't shoot hoops, but the two were eager to meet in Jerusalem this week. A family friend of Abdul-Jabbar's, Leonard ("Smitty") Smith, was among the first American soldiers to enter Buchenwald. He found Lau, then seven years old, and held him up to show people who lived in the nearby town of Weimar, saying, "Look! This is your enemy." Said Abdul-Jabbar: "I just wanted to complete the circle...