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...just and feasible solution. What's needed is a leader of the caliber and courage of a De Gaulle or a Clement Atlee (the post-World War II Prime Minister of Britain). The sooner such a leader emerges, the better for everyone in the Holy Land. ERICH H. PARBHOO Baton Rouge...
...stumbled out of the flooded, filth-filled hole that served as the last Taliban fortification in Mazar-i-Sharif last December, Yasser Hamdi heard a British journalist ask, "Where are you from?" Hamdi, who appeared upbeat even after six days in that besieged sewer, chirped up immediately. "Baton Rouge," he said. Just hearing a response surprised Neil Syson, a reporter for the Sun, a London tabloid. But the actual words floored him. "Louisiana?" someone asked incredulously. "Do you know it?" replied Hamdi...
...deny that he was an American citizen." In January the FBI and Louisiana's state highway patrol started an investigation that tiptoed around the state's strict privacy laws and involved hand searches for birth certificates. It led to one issued for Hamdi by Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge...
Beyond that there is nothing but doubt, since no one in Baton Rouge has yet claimed to recall the Hamdis, who returned to Saudi Arabia in the early '80s, according to officials. His father might have worked in the petrochemical industry, which forms the industrial base of Baton Rouge, or at Louisiana State University, where hundreds of Saudis have taken part in a petroleum-engineering program over the years. But oil companies have not been able to find a record of Hamdi's father or mother, nor has Louisiana State...
...stare. But after someone in our group blurted out that I was Miss Harvard, he suddenly became more interested in speaking with me. Chewing on a piece of grass and talking in a southern drawl, he encouraged me as I twirled a broom like it was a baton. Later, when his brother came to pick him up and asked what the best part of his day was, Boone said it was meeting Miss Harvard. His brother, ignorant of who had actually won, wanted to stick around and meet...