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...extended families, some even sleeping in shifts; there's no privacy at home, but even less compunction to leave. In the vacuum, drugs have taken hold. An estimated 30,000 Maldivian youths are addicts, almost 10% of the country's population. "There is nothing to do here," says Ali Adib, one of the directors of Journey, a drug-rehabilitation NGO in Malé, and a recovering addict himself. "The whole social fabric is torn...
...status quo rather than embrace the need for change. Mubarak, for example, strongly defended the continuation of the government's 24-year-old State of Emergency, suggesting that terrorists would have put the country "in ruins" without it. The flattering questions, tossed by veteran talk show host Emadeddin Adib, projected the feeling that Egyptians should happy to have Mubarak for a leader. In contrast to the jittery mood in Egypt following last week's terrorist attacks, at one point in phrasing a question Adib praised Mubarak with the words, "One does not worry when you are around...
Continuing international support for an independent Lebanon has been crucial, said Adib Farha, a former advisor to Hariri’s government and a professor at Lebanese American University in Beirut...
...Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, was ready to party. At his first outing in 1998, at the posh Jadriyah Equestrian Club, he used high-powered binoculars to survey the crowd of friends and family from a platform high above the guests. He saw something he liked, recalls his former aide Adib Shabaan, who helped arrange the party. Uday tightened the focus on a pretty 14-year-old girl in a bright yellow dress sitting with her father, a former provincial governor, her mother and her younger brother and sister. Uday's bodyguards picked up the signal and walked through the darkened...
...certainly embiggened that role with his kromulence." Busch-Reisinger Museum displays newly-invented words by Adib Fricke, The Word Company. Enjoy Fricke's "protonyms" such as "smorp," "yemmels" and "ontom." Through May 2. 32 Quincy St. 495-2397. FREE...