Word: anwar
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...told Senators that these self-generated terrorists include a "troubling emerging pattern of lone wolves, directly linked via the Internet to foreign al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist organizations." Some see evidence of a possible similar link in the case of Hasan, whom the FBI had detected communicating with Yemen-based Anwar al-Awlaki, a firebrand cleric and U.S. citizen who praised the Fort Hood killing spree on his website...
...Jerusalem or Ramallah; you stand there "guardedly optimistic" in public; in private, you try to move a comma, but the Israelis or Palestinians move a semicolon to block your comma. The result is almost always the same: gridlock. The breakthroughs, when they come, emanate from others. Walter Cronkite asks Anwar Sadat if he'd be willing to go to Jerusalem ... and Sadat, to everyone's surprise, says yes. The Israelis and Palestinians hold secret meetings in Oslo and reach what appears to be a breakthrough - they're talking! - which then becomes another dead...
...Printmaking has had a dramatic effect on most of the artists spending time at the STPI. For Malaysian painter Ahmad Zakii Anwar, the process of lithography emphasized his innate drafting skills, and gave his print series of male nudes cartographic precision. Chinese installation artist Lin Tianmiao, used to working in large spaces with big props, cut her work down to a more intimate scale. She created a series of hauntingly vacant faces over which she superimposed a sheet of ribbed and pebbled paper. The scarred surface of the works imbued them with an irresistible texture...
Assistant Manager Wajeeh Anwar said he found the signs' appearance to be "a little hilarious" because, he said, Staples recycles all its paper, cartridges, cell phone batteries, and electronics...
...drew succor from the example of a certain Filipino homemaker's bravery - a woman who herself almost inadvertently assumed the mantle of Mohandas Gandhi after the assassination of her political-dissident husband in 1983. "Cory Aquino's struggle for and success at fortifying constitutional democracy in the Philippines," says Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian opposition leader, "was one of the signal battles in the last quarter of the 20th century...