Word: alie
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...maybe Rock is a fighter. Not with his fists but with his jokes. His punch lines are his punches, his gibes are his jabs. In fact, just as Muhammad Ali had his Rumble in the Jungle, Rock hopes to set his next HBO stand-up in the symbolic location of Africa. "It's weird with stand-up comedy," he says. "It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something...
...little early for sighs of relief over the fate of East Timor. Indonesian foreign minister Ali Alatas met with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York Monday to negotiate the terms of a peacekeeping mission to East Timor. But although President B. J. Habibie caved in under mounting international pressure Sunday and accepted the principle of a peacekeeping mission, perils aplenty await both the Timorese and their prospective liberators. For one thing, nobody knows quite who is in charge in Jakarta these days. That the president's announcement was immediately endorsed by the all-powerful military is certainly encouraging...
After waking up yesterday afternoon, I did some more reporting. I interviewed a few more seniors, and I tried to reach others, including campus figures: the inestimable Michael P. Beys '94, former Undergraduate Council chair; Zaheer R. Ali '94, former Black Students Association President; etc. (Okay, there's no "etc." I only tried to reach two campus figures...
Then, Zaheer Ali returned my phone call. But he has a thesis due, too, in Afro-American studies...
...done the senior thesis procrastination thing, but right now I'm not doing that," Ali says. Otherwise, he's only had time for "planning the revolution," he says with a laugh...