Word: alberts
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...phone services are still not fully functioning, the 130-student elementary and middle school is providing a sense of normality. "The school is what's bringing people back," says Betz, who fled Pass Christian for Sandestin, Fla., around 200 miles away, the day before Katrina hit, with her husband Albert, 39, son Owen, 7, daughter Jane Todd, 10, and mother Anita Orfila...
...Muslims suggests a parallel with European Jews. Despite centuries of racial, religious and social discrimination and economic deprivation, not to mention the pogroms and ghettos of the World War II era, Jews have produced philosophical, artistic and scientific geniuses like Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler, Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein and Marc Chagall - not suicide bombers. Jack Hoffmann Allerod, Denmark Your cover headline "Why Some Young European Muslims Are Turning to Extremism" makes a rather broad assumption. Aren't there any disaffected young Muslims in the U.S.? Aren't any of them unemployed and angry about living...
...ALBERT HADLEY: THE STORY OF AMERICA'S PRE-EMINENT INTERIOR DESIGNER By Adam Lewis Designs for J.F.K.'s White House, Brooke Astor and others
...into the royal family of the Thembu, a clan of the Xhosa tribe based in the Transkei, Mandela was trained as a boy to rule someday as a chief. Instead he became a lawyer and an A.N.C. militant. It was just a few months after then A.N.C. leader Chief Albert Luthuli was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize that Mandela urged the party leadership to take up arms. Committed to nonviolence, Luthuli was deeply ambivalent about the proposition. . Mandela remembers Luthuli finally telling him, ''We are going to keep to nonviolence, but we give you permission to go and start...
...with him; at dinner, invariably, before we reached the sweets we got on to politics. He was a man who always looked for justice. He asked himself, If a plan cannot work, then it becomes immoral to continue something you acknowledge in your own conscience cannot work. MANDELA: Chief Albert Luthuli ((A.N.C. president, 1952 to '67)) believed in nonviolence as a way of life. But we who were in touch with the grass roots persuaded the chief that if we did not begin the armed struggle, then people would proceed without guidance. Armed struggle must be a movement intended...