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...Bank Fatah chief currently in an Israeli prison for his role in directing the Tanzim militias in this intifada, and Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the blind spiritual leader of Hamas. The moderate negotiators from Arafat's inner circle such as Mahmoud Abbas (a.k.a. Abu Mazen) and Ahmed Qurei (a.k.a. Abu Ala) are aging and in ill health, and their intimate involvement in the failed Oslo process has made them magnets for considerable Palestinian rage. The CIA-vetted security chiefs favored by Washington, Mohammed Dahlan and Jibril Rajoub, are equally tainted by their role as the gendarmes of Arafat's corrupt administration...
Justin A. Barkley ’02 met Melissa G. Ausman, currently a senior at Tufts, at their high school in Birmingham, Ala. Ausman had just finished class with one of Barkley’s favorite teachers, when he stopped by the classroom to pay the teacher a visit...
CONVICTED. BOBBY FRANK CHERRY, 71, former Ku Klux Klan activist; of first-degree murder in the deaths of four young girls in the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church; in Birmingham. Sentenced to life in prison under 1963 Alabama law, Cherry, who bragged about his deed, was the third man to be convicted of the crime that shamed pro-segregationist whites and galvanized civil rights leaders (a fourth died before being tried). Of the 39-year march toward justice, Sarah Collins Rudolph, the sister of victim Addie Mae Collins, said, "It was a long time...
...with that, after 39 years, the case that has haunted Birmingham, Ala. and is credited with awakening the nation to the savagery of the civil rights struggle in the South finally came to an end. Former Ku Klux Klansman Cherry, 71, was found guilty of four counts of murder in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in 1963 that killed four young girls...
...central nervous system or stimulates its development. The likeliest candidate: a long-chain polyunsaturated acid known as DHA that is found in human milk but not in infant formula or cow's milk. Today's infant formulas, by the way, are fortified with a precursor of DHA called ala and may offer some of the same benefits...