Word: descent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though these jihad-warriors play for the Sudan, the minor leagues of Islamic fundamentalist state-sponsored terrorism (considering the country's recent descent into barbarism, perhaps the metaphor of an expansion team rings truer), they still can cause a lot of trouble, as evidenced by the Trade Center bombing...
Huge as American academe is, it has few public intellectuals -- men or women ( whose views carry weight with general readers off-campus. Near the top of any list of such people is a tall, elegantly tailored, 57-year-old American of Palestinian descent who for the past 30 years has taught English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York City: Edward Said...
...networks. Most of the arrangements are done by international crime syndicates, which cut deals with desperate families, then draw up the escape plan, procure the forged documents and furnish the transportation. One kingpin of the racket is Big Boss Ma (not his real name), a Thai gangster of Chinese descent who funnels mainland Chinese through Bangkok. Seated in the lotus position on a teak sofa at home in Mae Sai, a northern Thai town, Big Boss exudes confidence and affluence. His gold front tooth glimmers as he speaks of his $20,000 prepaid package trips, which he claims have...
Well, it wasn't. Yes, the Germans considered the Poles an inferior race. They invaded, abused, violated and socially decapitated the Poles. But they did not issue a death sentence and track down for gassing every child of Polish descent. That treatment was reserved for the Jews...
...home in Maplewood, New Jersey, they had ( several pieces of evidence linking him to the first suspect seized, Mohammed Salameh, starting with the business card they found in Salameh's pocket. Although Ayyad is from Kuwait and Salameh is from Jordan, both men are of Palestinian descent and they have been friends for more than a year. One of Ayyad's brothers says they met at a mosque, though it is still not certain if he was referring to Al-Salam Mosque in Jersey City, where Salameh worshipped on occasion and Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, a radical Egyptian cleric, often...