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Aidid's real name is Hassan. Following a common custom, his mother chose a nickname for him that she thought expressed his uncommon determination: Aidid means "one with no weaknesses." He fancies himself a poet in a country nourished on oral tradition and lives the spartan life of a nomad. In the 1950s he served in the Italian colonial police force and as a general in Siad Barre's army in the war with Ethiopia. But as a tribal rival of Siad Barre's Darod clan family, he was never fully trusted and was imprisoned without trial for six years...
Reno will be only the third Commencement Speaker in the Law School's history. The custom began...
Businessmen brave or foolhardy enough to try rebuilding in the riot corridors met with one failure after another. Even before the rubble was cleared away, John Snipes opened a custom-shirt shop on U Street to cater to snappy dressers in the neighborhood. It quickly faded in the area's dreary economic climate. "You couldn't get insurance. You couldn't get credit. You just couldn't get anything," says Snipes. "You'd look around and see all these empty buildings, all this devastation and that put a damper on us." Since then, Snipes has tried two other enterprises...
...dazzling scenario, to be sure. Maybe a little scary. And definitely fraught with uncertainties. No one involved in the TV industry has a precise idea of what the new world will look like, or how the audience will react to it. When TV offers custom selections to suit every narrow interest, will mass- audience programming disappear? Or will the interactive offerings appeal mainly to an audience of techno-freaks, while the rest of us, at least for the foreseeable future, stick with our favorite channels? Will the traditional networks survive? What about commercials, local affiliates, video stores? Will we wind...
...millions of American but the way churches go about recruiting members to keep their doors open. Increasing numbers of baby boomers who left the fold years ago are turning religious again, but many are traveling from church to church or faith to faith, sampling creeds, shopping for a custom-made God. A growing choir of critics contends that in doing whatever it takes to lure those fickle customers, churches are at risk of losing their heritage -- and their souls...