Word: achkar
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...really had a fixation about them." Khan then suggested that she wear a white scarf to crown the ensemble, displaying both colors of the Pakistani flag. In 1996, when Princess Diana visited Pakistan, Rizwan Beyg was commissioned to outfit her. "I actually dressed her in a man's achkar [a long, traditional buttoned jacket]," recalls Beyg...
...good health, I am off to my sigmoidoscopy. I don't like what I see in the examination room: a black, jointed, snakelike creature with two little eyes and a mouth that squirts jets of air and water. This thing, under the guidance of gastroenterologist Dr. Edgar Achkar, is about to explore the lower third of my colon for polyps. After enemas are administered, I am in position. A congenial nurse named Debby clutches my hand reassuringly. Achkar wonders if I would like to see the proceedings on a video monitor. Suddenly a world I never imagined existed lights...
...would have gone through the same blood work-up, basic tests and measurements that I encountered. She would have had a sigmoidoscopy, because the frequency of colorectal cancer after 50 in both men and women "just takes off," says Dr. Edgar Achkar, Cleveland Clinic gastroenterologist...
...year-old lawyer who became Guinea's Minister of the Interior when that country chose independence last fall in Charles de Gaulle's referendum. As a law student in Paris in 1949, Fodeba led two other Guinean students, Artistic Director Kante Facelli, 35, and Administrator Achkar Marof, 28, in singing African songs over the French radio. What they sang went over so well that Fodeba assembled a successful dance group recruited from fellow Africans in Paris. Then the trio took off on a "25,000-mile" talent hunt for authentic West African dancers, organized contests, persuaded ritual dancers...
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