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...once they did but also had trouble lining up sufficient evidence. Finally, Abu Ali's family filed a civil suit last summer to get him returned to the U.S., forcing the Justice Department's hand. The Saudis, eager to avoid the p.r. nightmare of putting an American citizen on trial for terrorism, were relieved to hustle Abu Ali aboard an FBI flight to Washington. Now it was the U.S. that faced a deadline to indict...
...Bronx in New York City, teachers are often buzzing about big new ideas on how to teach and reach students. But few of their improvement schemes made it into classrooms until rookie teacher Charles Best had the best idea of all: to create an online charity that would give citizen philanthropists direct access to needy classrooms...
Richard Reid Dec. 22, 2001 A British citizen, he was caught trying to blow up a flight from Paris to Miami with explosives hidden in his shoes Bragging about his loyalty to al-Qaeda, Reid pleaded guilty in federal court in 2003 to multiple counts of attempted murder. He received a sentence of life in prison...
...leave you limpin’, you know Yalies stay pimpin’”), the sextet of ballin’ Bulldogs shifted their playa-hating focus onto less lofty targets: namely, nubile newlywed singers. In “Toxic Prophet,” group member Citizen Q lays down a semi-coherent rap over the strains of Britney’s “Toxic...
...driving this series of poetic works into being was, according to Manning, the American legend Daniel Boone. Taking the perspective of the historical frontiersman, Manning composed a voluminous poetic discussion on the meaning of loneliness, grief, and the life and times of Boone, who was “a citizen of nowhere” at his death, according to Manning. He went on to describe the poems in a personal sense, including stories from the spans of time in his life when he himself lived alone, though all of the poems were spoken in impersonal voices. A sense...