Word: assisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born in the Arab village of Al-Joura, Sheik Yasin has been paralyzed below the neck since age 15 as the result of an athletic accident. He resides with his wife and eleven children in a one-story house in Gaza City. Family members assist him in dressing and eating. Despite his handicap, he runs al-Mujama al- Islami, a community organization that builds mosques and sponsors cultural activities...
...volunteers, who can speak Vietnamese, assist the teachers by tutoring the students and participating in other classroom activities. "The teachers really appreciate the volunteer efforts," said Thuy Truong, a bilingual teacher at Jackson-Mann. "These educated young people can serve as role models for the children...
...responsibilities to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, to which I am counsel, to the Harvard Board of Overseers, and to the other community and political causes to which I am committed. (There are only so many hours in a day.) I was invited but unable to assist the nominating committee for this year's slate, although I did help by interviewing and evaluating some of the candidates based in Washington, D.C. I had conversations with [HRAAA officials] Chester Hartman and Dorothee Benz before and after the tentative state...
...decided to create a modern Talmud. "It was a kind of hubris," he admits. Standard editions are virtually unreadable for nonexperts partly because the Hebrew is printed without vowel notations or punctuation. And the work abounds with obscurities. Two commentaries are customarily printed alongside the text to assist understanding, but they raise further questions because they are centuries...
...Nieuwendyk, a forward for Cornell's 1986 ECAC championship team, scored a pair of goals and added an assist for Calgary. He is the Flames' chief power play expert and has over 30 goals on the season, more than Wayne Gretzky...