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...call. But instead of tackling all 46 volumes of an 1883 text - which he knew nobody would read in its entirety - he decided to tackle a blend of two shorter versions: the 1855 rendering by the Urdu poet Ghalib Lakhnavi, and an 1871 text by the Urdu scholar Abdullah Bilgrami, who took Lakhnavi's edition and added various flourishes and refrains to restore its original bardic character. Even so, Farooqi's translation is almost a thousand pages in total. It was a Herculean labor. "When I looked at the first page," Farooqi confesses, "I thought 'What the hell is this...
...testimony last week before a subcommittee chaired by Senator John Kerry, a convicted former B.C.C.I. employee fingered Zayed as one of the phony stockholders in B.C.C.I.'s purchase of First American. The witness, Akbar Bilgrami, testified that he had personally read the loan agreements by which B.C.C.I. lent the money to Zayed to buy First American shares. If true, this means that Zayed violated the same banking laws that Adham and Mahfouz are charged with breaking...
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