Word: elders
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...Even in his own prosperous family, Atta seemed overshadowed by his lawyer father and the academic success of his two elder sisters, one who lectured at Cairo University and the other who became a doctor. A quiet only son who was strongly attached to his mother, Atta's father nicknamed him "Bolbol" - Arabic for a little bird. Mohammed El Amir recalls his son as a timid boy who avoided fights or squabbles between friends. "In his behavior, my son was almost like an angel," he said. "He is like a virgin girl in his politeness and shyness. Growing...
...character assessments are deft and perceptive. He points out how the elder Bush—shaped by the Great Depression and World War II in his youth—was reluctant to take credit for the foreign policy achievements of his first term, and how Albert Gore ’69 came across during the 2000 presidential campaign as awkward, stiff and even self-defeating. Halberstam writes, “To those who had studied both Clinton and Gore, the outgoing president was clearly the more skilled politician, his loyalty always calibrated to the needs of the moment, his allegiances...
...Aslam Larik, 54, Attiya's elder brother, lives about half-an-hour's drive?and an entire world?away. At his apartment in the Karachi Engineering University's staff colony, a simple, sober message printed in Arabic and English greets visitors at the front door: ALLAH IS THE BEST PROVIDER OF ALL. Inside, the drab walls are devoid of decoration, bare but for a calendar. There is no television on the TV stand, but in its place sits a Koran wrapped lovingly in an embroidered shawl. The women are sequestered, and a peaceful silence prevails...
...only deplore the action,” J. Petersen Elder, professor of Greek and Latin and Dean of the GSAS, said last night. “A knowledge of Latin literature is necessary for a knowledge of English literature...
...Elder was supported by John Finley ’25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. “It is a mistake, he said. “I don’t see how anyone could study English profitably without some knowledge of Latin...