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...diminutive size with ferocity and his oratory, honed at Islamic universities in Libya and Syria. He reverentially appropriated Sayyaf's name (which means "swordsman" in Arabic) for his group back home. In 1991, Abu Sayyaf struck its first blow by killing two American evangelists in a grenade blast in Zamboanga. This was followed by a string of kidnappings, massacres and extortion operations. Cassette tapes of Janjalani's jihad sermons began circulating, and other gangs of Moro brigands in the Sulu islands?who specialized in running drugs and guns, kidnapping and growing marijuana?accepted Janjalani as their chief. Abu Sayyaf...
Harvard’s plans for a $100,000 investment in Cambridge summer school programs in the same week fell well short of expectations established by the Boston commitment, leading Cambridge officials to blast Harvard for ignoring their host city...
...midwesterner’s had an east coast accent. We all rolled our eyes, not realizing that mom’s intuition proved to be a good sign. Each of us had an element of adaptability that made the year’s living experience a blast...
...midwesterner’s had an east coast accent. We all rolled our eyes, not realizing that mom’s intuition proved to be a good sign. Each of us had an element of adaptability that made the year’s living experience a blast...
...when you can stop and smell the daisies without putting down your laptop, it may not be too far off. I'm at the much-hyped but financially troubled DigiScents Inc. in Oakland, California, for a click-and-sniff demonstration. When I select the cotton candy icon, a short blast from the iSmell scent synthesizer - which connects to a computer or game console - takes me back to the county fair. Some fragrances are better than others: ocean breeze tends more toward air freshener than the beaches of Bali...