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...He’s a great recruiter,” Rose says. “I met him when I visited here and he just seemed like such a strong figurehead type. He seemed very straightforward and very professional. I thought Harvard took football much more seriously than the other schools I had visited...
...He’s a great recruiter,” Rose says. “I met him when I visited here and he just seemed like such a strong figurehead type. He seemed very straightforward and very professional. I thought Harvard took football much more seriously than the other schools I had visited...
Since the death in July of Faisal Husseini, the revered Palestinian figurehead of East Jerusalem, Nusseibeh has gradually assumed that leadership role. The scion of a family that came to Jerusalem with the Caliph Omar 1,300 years ago, Nusseibeh, 52, stands out among the city?s remaining political leaders. He carries intellectual heft as the head of Al-Quds University and wields political clout as the organizer of Jerusalem?s 1987-93 intifadeh, which helped spur Israeli leaders to negotiate with the Palestinians. Nusseibeh is using his position to push a dovish line at a time when extremists have...
...Megawati came to power on the crest of a wave of youth rebellion. Those kids didn't really think about it; they didn't have any other figurehead, so they adopted her because she was Sukarno's daughter. That...
...shot down by police in 1998. Since then, say Philippine counter-terrorism experts, Abu Sayyaf's ties with international Islamic terrorism may have broken. At the same time, leadership of the group splintered into two main factions: the first, which is currently holding the hostages in Basilan, has a figurehead in Janjalani's younger brother, Khadaffy. But the real chief is Abu Sabaya, a former media communications student who worked in Saudi Arabia before gravitating to the Afghan training camps. A cleric familiar with the group's history says that Abu Sabaya, whose real name is Ahmad Salayudi, was banished...