Word: alias
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...American -- Queen Noor, formerly Lisa Halaby. (She was his fourth wife: A youthful marriage to a Palestinian woman ended in divorce, as did his union with Toni Gardiner, daughter of a British Army officer and mother of his heir, Crown Prince Abdullah; a third bride, the Palestinian Queen Alia, was tragically killed in a helicopter accident...
...write in response to yet another irresponsible Crimson news article, the piece on Friday, April 19, concerning the dropping of criminal charges for want of evidence against one Kaveh Afrasiabi, accused inter alia of threats against Mr. Reza Alavi, research associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and organizer of its Iranian studies seminar. While I have no direct knowledge of the court proceedings in question, we have more than once reviewed Mr. Afrasiabi's wholly unfounded charges of persecution against the Center and its members. We have not wanted to dignify these charges with a response...
...fall of 1992, a plurality of American voters placed their confidence in the ability of President Clinton inter alia to conduct American foreign policy. In selecting Warren Christopher to be his Secretary of State, the President gave the most prestigious of cabinet posts to a man who by all accounts has brought to the job an almost exceptional level of mediocrity...
Through most of the experiment, Kanzi and Alia were neck and neck. At the end, however, Alia's language skills began to outpace the bonobo's, while Kanzi's grammatical comprehension topped out at the level of a 2 1/2-year-old. Though not impressive by human standards, even that toddler level implies vastly more sophisticated abilities than critics have acknowledged...
...achievements are no greater than those claimed for Koko or other subjects in early language studies. His real significance is that scientists are more willing to accept the results as valid because of the tight controls used during the studies. For instance, a one-way mirror prevented Kanzi and Alia from seeing who gave them commands, while those tracking what the ape and toddler did in response wore earphones to prevent them from hearing the requests. Each sentence was also utterly new to both ape and child. The young bonobo has thus helped break a two-decade deadlock during which...