Word: amir
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...high school but focus rather quickly (on a non-science field) in college. Forcing students to take higher departmental courses is not a viable option, since science courses tend to specialize more quickly than their counterparts in the humanities. --Gopal Garuda '98, Lonne Jaffe '99. Sandrine Goffard '98, Amir Zarrinpar '99, Charlotte Chui '98, Lee Koffler '98, Rebecca Onie '98-'97, Advanced Standing Peer Counselors
...great asset of the Kennedy School is the students [who represent] an international community; the professor only has to let students speak between themselves," said Ehud Amir, head of the Education, Culture and Youth and Sports Department of the new Modi' in municipality...
Just what the Israelis were up to outside their zone in Lebanon remained unexplained. Lebanese sources speculated that the Israelis intended to snatch Sheik Abdul-Amir Kabalan, who has a house in Insariyeh and is influential in Amal, one of the Shi'ite militia groups. Israel has carried out such kidnappings before, but military insiders downplayed this theory. They hinted instead that the mission was to plant explosive devices in the area, targeted either at a nearby Hizballah post or an Amal encampment...
...mother will raise a child like herself. But an imprisoned, uneducated and frustrated mother will raise a myopic, selfish and materialistic child. Misunderstanding and misinterpretation of Islamic law are contributing factors to the backwardness and downfall of Muslim civilization. It is never too late to correct the course. M. AMIR ALI, Managing Director Institute of Islamic Information and Education Chicago...
...stations, showed Peres leading by just one-to-four percent, which means the outcome cannot yet be predicted. At stake is Israel's course toward peace, pursued aggressively by both Peres and his Labor Party predecessor, Yitzak Rabin, who was assassinated last November by right-wing rabbinical student Yigal Amir. Netanyahu has come grudgingly to accept the accords granting the Palestinian Authority limited self-rule in Gaza and the West Bank, but he opposes Palestinian statehood and trading occupied land for peace with Israel's neighbors. During his campaign for the office of Prime Minister, he has moderated his hard...