Word: alie
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Even such tenuous feelers toward the U.S. put Khatami on the other side of the political barricades from his nation's supreme leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Spiritual chief Khamenei and other militant hard-liners still prefer shouting sulfurous slogans at the "Great Satan" and setting fire to Old Glory. Khatami has been walking a line between the Iranian reformers and mossbacks from the day he was elected. At an Islamic summit in Tehran last month, Khatami reportedly passed the word that he intended to reshape and moderate Iran's foreign policy, but it would take him two years to build...
DIED. WILLIE PASTRANO, 62, fleet-foot boxer whose nimble moves inspired Muhammad Ali; of cancer; in New Orleans. A chubby child who was the butt of many a schoolyard joke, Pastrano dropped the pounds--and his opponents--in the ring, becoming world light-heavyweight champion in the 1960s...
Sophomore Tracy Amber Thall, freshmen Ali Shipley and Kristin Hennings and junior Courtney Swain all scored high enough to secure a spot in that competition, joining freshman Camilla McLean, who qualified previously...
Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture Ali S. Asani '77, who serves on the Faculty board of the Harvard Foundation for Race and Intercultural Relations, says he remembers when the schools around him ceased to be segregated, and even when the patriotic songs in class changed...
...Field, 27, and Griscom, 29, are clicking. Attractive, bespectacled and living in a bookshelf-clogged apartment that looks very much like grad-school housing, they've become the cyber Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw. Since they launched their online magazine, Nerve, on June 26 (the very day the Supreme Court knocked down the Communications Decency Act), they've got great reviews, a book deal with Broadway Books and about 10,000 visitors...