Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...according to federal-court documents. The FBI says they were part of al-Qaida, an international terrorist organization that bin Laden heads, and had been trained at a camp in Afghanistan. Federal prosecutors in New York are drafting a broader terrorism case against him that will include the East African bombings...
...deal/ The streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill/ Made sure that I'd never go too far." Hill isn't out to create bourgeois hip-hop lite; she constantly strives to connect her message to the street. The album veers from rapping to singing, from hip-hop to neosoul, from African-American argot to Jamaican patois. Part of the CD was recorded in Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, where reggae rebel Bob Marley recorded...
...fellow African, I sympathize with the families of all those who were killed or injured in the Nairobi and Dar es Salaam embassy blasts [WORLD, Aug. 17]. In some countries, the U.S. embassy is in a strategically secure location, but in Kenya it is in a densely populated residential waterfront area where the neighboring buildings are other embassies and elementary schools. It's time the U.S. government reviewed security measures for its buildings and reassessed their location to protect the people who live or work near these embassies. And international terrorists need to be watched more closely than ever...
...less than a week he has taken the public's emotions on a ride from a noble and heartbreaking ceremony for those killed in the African embassy bombings to "I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong." So it has always gone with Clinton. He is the spiritual leader of the people, driven by compassion and graced with charm and a common touch unknown in the presidency for decades. And he is also the lusty, leering bad ole boy who sweats and groans on the national church floor after services...
...Laden's money took when the exiled Saudi millionaire started funding Islamic extremists in the United States. According to counterterrorism officials, the New York jurors handed down a sealed indictment for Bin Laden as long ago as June -- two months before he became the prime suspect in the African embassy bombings...