Word: alie
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...Associate Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Ali S. Asani decides to leave the University at the end of this year, Harvard may have serious difficulties continuing its program in Indo-Muslim culture and many South Asian language programs, faculty and students said yesterday...
...meter hurdles: 1. Ali Nisa Tucker (Northeastern) 8.2; 2. Simone Scott (Northeastern) 8.2; 3. Michelle Lordon...
...Kuwait, meanwhile, resistance members wait. When the war started, techno-euphoria erupted. As they watched the CNN telecasts from Dubai, they marveled at the allied coalition's precision weapons. Expecting almost instant liberation, they began to joke. "We told each other we were going to beat the record," said Ali Salem, one of the resistance leaders. Israel took six days to defeat an Arab coalition during the 1967 war; now, the Kuwaitis predicted, the U.S. would show Israel how it could be done in even less time...
Bombast aside, the speech gave a strong clue to his plans, which struck some American politicians as a military adaptation of Muhammad Ali's "rope-a- dope" ring strategy: bob, weave, dance and duck until the opponent tires himself out chasing an elusive target; then hit hard. Saddam, in fact, has supposedly used very nearly those words. Says an Arab diplomat in Amman: "Before the war, he was telling everyone, 'We know that the first strike will be for the benefit of the U.S. But we are prepared for them to hit us for two or three weeks. After that...
Education in Kuwait will change too. "Today," says Ali Jaber, whose view is typical, "people go for the sheepskin, not for the knowledge. With employment assured, there is no need to actually learn anything if you are not self-motivated." Performance and accountability "are only the beginning of the new discipline we are going to have to inject into our school system," says Hasan al-Ebraheem. "We have to break up the university, create elite centers of training in specific skills like banking and business, and then we have to encourage those who cannot make it in those places...