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...Sebbagh sisters--Laura, 28; Mazal, 26; Farah, 20--and their 18-year-old cousin, Eva Saad, were caught at the border, raped and murdered by Syrian authorities, who then stuffed the women's disfigured bodies in trash bags and dropped them off at their parents' doorsteps...
...preference shown toward children who livein the neighborhood and those with siblings in aparticular school prevents the abolition of schoolstereotypes, says Farah M. Ravanbakash, a formerparent liaison at the Tobin School...
...look at reliable statistics, however, suggests otherwise. According to Professor Tawfic Farah's survey of 1393 students from Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait, the U.A.E., Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, only 36 percent of the respondents agreed with the statement that the Arab world extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf; 64 percent disagreed. Concludes Professor Farah, "This is surprising, considering the fact that this is what students are taught in school and hear repeatedly in the media. It is consistent, thought, with the students' general tendency to reject the idea of Pan-Arabism...
Shawcross briskly recounts the Shah's decline and fall, from the first wobbles of the Peacock Throne to the restrained dash to the airport with Queen Farah Diba, their entourage and pets. But unlike luckier deposed billionaires, the Shah did not have a soft landing. He had cancer and was coming down with an acute case of political leprosy. Switzerland, France and Britain, concerned about oil and terrorism, rolled up the welcome mat. Despite entreaties by the Rockefellers, who handled the fallen Shah's finances and provided him with a live-in public relations man, and Henry Kissinger, President Jimmy...
...audience devours Beehive like a three-foot hoagie. They may stand up and sing The Name Game ("Sarah, Sarah, bo barah, bonana fanna fo farah, fee fi mo marah . . . Sarah!"). They wallow in Lesley Gore's perky petulance ("It's my party and I'll cry if I want to") and sway to the Motown philosophizing of the Supremes ("Baby, baby, where did our love go?"). They thrill again to the eloquent plaint of the Shangri-Las ("Remember, walkin' in the sand") and the sly taunts of the Angels ("My boyfriend's back, he's gonna save my reputation...