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Glee Club President Darren Walker '91 says their past gives club members a unique male bond, and member Henry Roman '92, a three-year club member, calls the group a "fraternity-like brotherhood." But all the Holden groups seem to share a social link. The groups' parties, outings and weekend retreats in early autumn allows for social networking that sometimes takes a romantic turn. "There have been a few romances between members of different groups and they have not been discouraged," says Collegium President Kelly Flynn...
...Middle East. The Arab League is already split down the middle, with at least nine of its members, including some that offer lip service to the U.N. resolutions, giving overt backing to Iraq. Iran is, at best, equivocal. Saddam tries to build on this support with appeals based on brotherhood, religion and the Palestinian cause. It is interesting to note that he has never criticized his Syrian brothers for sending forces to Saudi Arabia, nor has he built up troops along their common border. Most Muslim believers are uncomfortable with Western troops in their holy lands. Iraq's propagandists also...
...report that Coffey's unit recently prepared for New York City police commissioner Lee Brown describes the Genovese family as the "most stable," the "best counseled" and the most diversified business-crime group in the country. Leading the family's extortion list is the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the largest U.S. labor union (1.7 million members). Mostly through unions, the family also has major clout in such trades as construction, food distribution, textiles and garbage hauling. The Genovese clan dominates the ports of New York, New Jersey and Miami, as well as America's biggest fish market...
...April 1989 convinced King Hussein that he needed to engage the public in the kingdom's political and economic problems. Last November he called the first national elections in 22 years. The result was telling: of the 80 parliamentarians elected, 34 were members or supporters of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. Although the moderate Brotherhood was the only organized opposition force to stand in the elections, Arab leaders read the outcome as a confirmation of their worst fears. While Hussein favors continued reforms, he retains absolute control of defense and foreign policy...
...parties to flower, and tolerates perhaps the most feisty press in the Arab world. At the same time, he has invoked emergency arrest-and-detention laws to crack down on radical fundamentalists. Mubarak's party controls the national assembly; the opposition benches are dominated by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, who had to run under other parties since the Brotherhood is banned...