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Since the campaign began, worshippers in Riyadh and Jidda have reported hearing sermons promoting tolerance, denouncing terrorism and warning against radical interpretations of the doctrine of jihad. On a recent Friday, the sermon was mundane at Jidda's Juffali Mosque, which is next to Chop-Chop Square, so called for the work of the executioners who practice there. On the agenda were the importance of good deeds, kind words and the rejection of pagan customs...
...Korea employed to palaver with shoeshine boys and barmaids? Maybe committee investigators were told to keep their eyes out for a tape on which Bruce Lindsey says to Maria Hsia, a fund raiser prosecutors considered generous to a fault, "Listen, missy, you tell Charlie Trie boss needs money chop-chop...
...injured 500 others. His extradition today to the U.S. ends a messy diplomatic problem for Canadian authorities who had feared embarrassment at home if Sayegh had been returned to Saudi Arabia, where he likely would have been executed in an area next to a Riyadh mosque unofficially known as "chop-chop square." --Mark Coatney
...after they confessed to the November 1995 bombing of an American-run training center in downtown Riyadh, an attack that killed seven people including five U.S. advisers. Chop-chop square is also likely to be the destination of some if not all of the 40 suspects the Saudis now have in custody for last June's Khobar Towers bombing near Dhahran, a blast that took the lives of 19 U.S. airmen. Chop-chop makes fast work of sticky problems...
Tannen's most popular numbers are close-up effects, magic that can be done around coffee or conference tables. "Half and 20 centavo" ($12.50) turns a copper coin into a quarter-while the customer clutches it. "Chop-chop cups," little changed from the days of ancient Egypt, produce spheres from plum to orange size. "Spooky, the spirit handkerchief makes a ghost wander around under an empty little blanket of silk...