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...daughters and had them apply to Harvard using only their first initials on the applications and had the pleasure of seeing them accepted, then the pain of seeing them rejected for their sex, because at the time Harvard admitted no female, even if she was the world's leading Egyptian authority or Saudi scholar or Yemenist. Frederic Ogden Nash was born on August 19, 1902, in Rye, New Yorque. In print he might have signed himself Fred Nash, except that it lacks class, rhythm, torque. And if, like his mother and aunts, he had initialized his first name, Nash...
...P.L.O. executive committee (who is also known as Abu Mazen), was favored by senior Palestinians for the Prime Minister's job. He stormed off to Qatar three weeks ago in anger at the lack of progress, telling friends he planned to quit. He was persuaded to return by Egyptian and Jordanian leaders who want to keep the pressure on Arafat for change. Palestinian officials close to Abbas expect him to have a showdown with Arafat soon...
Sometimes a cigarette isn't just a cigarette. Nowhere is that more evident, these days, than in Cairo. For four consecutive summers, I've met friends for drinks at the Greek Club downtown in the Egyptian capital, but this year there's a new ritual to our gathering: Before sitting down, everyone tosses their pack of cigarettes onto the table for a brand inspection. Gauloise (French), Cleopatra (Egyptian) and Rothmans (Canadian) pass without comment, but a pack of Marlboros demands explanation. Boycotting American cigarettes has become a standard political statement in a city where the vast majority of urban professionals...
There is little doubt that Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet, a 41-year-old Egyptian limo driver who has lived in the U.S. for 10 years, went to the Los Angeles airport last week with the intent to kill. Especially this year, when terrorist fireworks for the Fourth of July were being imagined in every crowded place, no ordinary traveler would show up at any U.S. airport carrying two handguns, a 6-in. hunting knife and a supply of fresh ammunition. Hadayet's attack left two dead and at least three wounded before he was gunned down...
...know more about why police were once called to his apartment complex in Irvine, Calif., 44 miles south of the airport, to handle a domestic dispute involving him and his wife, who recently returned to Egypt with their two sons. After the airport attack, she was questioned by Egyptian authorities. The Fourth of July was also a significant day for Hadayet--his birthday, according to the date of birth on his driver's license...