Word: alie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVER SINCE SHEIK OMAR AHMED ALI Abdel Rahman arrived in America in July 1990, he has confounded the U.S. government. His incendiary sermons at mosques in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, New York, have called for the violent overthrow of the Egyptian government. Now six of Sheik Abdel Rahman's followers have been indicted in connection with the bombing of the World Trade Center. Little wonder that the U.S. State Department is trying to figure out how the sheik got to America in the first place...
...Yemen has taken a first step from one-man rule toward multiparty democracy. The General People's Congress Party, which governed North Yemen before its 1990 merger with the Marxist South, won a plurality of the 301 parliamentary seats. But in a bid to curb lawlessness and inflation, President Ali Abdullah Saleh promises a coalition government that will include the southern Yemen socialist and fundamentalist parties...
...billed as Ali versus Frazier. The Bulls against the Pistons. Top-ranked Miami against second-ranked Alabama...
What does have racist overtones is the suggestion that ethnic minorities grouping together is a bad thing in a way that, say, Feppies gathering in the Hasty Pudding is it. I disagree with Zaheer R. Ali '94 on many sings but I agree with his comments last week in the Crimson: "I do think in general in society there is a fear anytime Black people or so-called minority people or people of color are gathering together...
...sure [Johnson] has good intentions, but I questions whether a racist officer would express his racism openly and overtly in front of him," Black Students Association president Zaheer R. Ali '94 said in an October interview...