Word: farid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more amazing than the government's ability to bring off the election without disastrous violence. Many voted as they had for three decades of one-party rule--mechanically and without conviction. Others saw the poll as a fresh start: "I don't care if the F.I.S. is excluded," said Farid Harssani, 38, a printshop worker. "This is the first time we've had more than one candidate to vote for." Above all other considerations, Algerians voted in the desperate belief that their gesture might somehow stem the violence wracking their country...
Back home at her apartment last week, Nasrin was virtually crippled by fright after discovering that TIME reporter Farid Hossain had slipped past the official security detail. She shouted, "If he could come in, any killer can walk in!" Two months of fugitive life, in a hideout Nasrin has refused to identify, had taken a toll. During her confinement to a single room, she lost not only weight but all awareness of events in the outside world after the telephone was removed. "It was like living in a jail cell," she said. "I felt as if I was dying every...
...effort. "The vast preponderance of seafood that reaches the consumer is safe, clean and free of contaminants and chemicals," Kessler , maintains. Researchers at the National Academy of Science came to essentially the same conclusion last year in a report on seafood safety. "There are some areas of concern," says Farid Ahmed, the toxicologist who oversaw the report, but "basically the fish supply is safe...
...green-eyed 16-year-old named Farid, who wants to become a doctor when he grows up, is sitting in the back seat of the car, explaining how to stone Israeli soldiers. "You stay behind walls, follow the soldiers, throw and then dodge out of sight. Always know where you are, and have a way to escape in mind...
...duty to throw stones, Farid believes. "Sooner or later you will die, so there is nothing to be afraid of. They took our land, they killed our brothers, they arrested my friends. Our life is not so good that we can regret losing...