Word: gan
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...times, and then a senior monk withdrew a marker bearing the name of Gyaincain Norbu, 6, who was quickly ushered into the room in golden robes and a yellow silk hat. Norbu was hailed by the monks and by a man dressed incongruously in a Western-style suit: Luo Gan, a senior Chinese official dispatched to oversee the ceremony. Luo later bent forward, shook the boy's hand and said, "Love the country and study hard...
...Nassar, a member of the radical Islamist group Hamas, who they suspected was planning a suicide bombing in Israel. Later that night, the Israelis captured 10 members of a Hamas cell in the West Bank, including, they believed, the mastermind of a bus bombing in the city of Ramat Gan on July 24. The sweep also led to the seizure of three ready-to-go bombs, a car fixed to explode and assorted bomb-making materials. Thus, the counterterrorists reckoned, they were one up on Hamas...
After a three-month lull, the battle between Hamas and its foes has again been joined. The blast in Ramat Gan, which killed six Israelis, and now the one in Jerusalem have conjured up images of last fall and early winter, when Palestinian attacks, mostly suicide bombings, claimed 53 victims over four months. The violence nearly sank the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, as Israeli public opinion turned against expanding Palestinian self-rule. Now the question is again alive: Will the bloodletting drown the goodwill? "The peace process will go on," says a U.S. State Department official, "but how long...
...past Hamas publicly celebrated successful suicide bombers, but it was the Israelis who, after their investigation of Issa's ring, announced the identities of Sufiyan Jabbarin, 26, the Jerusalem bomber, and his Ramat Gan counterpart, Labib Azzam, 22. Hamas' silence, activists say, was meant to conceal the identities of the bombers' accomplices. "We don't want Israeli security to know the circles from which we are operating," says Amjad, who is connected to the Hamas military wing in the Gaza Strip...
...splinter Jewish sect whose adherents (above, with Wonder) claim to be descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. By week's end, however, the singer still hadn't found his long-lost care giver. But the trip wasn't a total loss: Wonder performed concerts in Jerusalem and Ramat Gan and said he was thrilled at "seeing the Holy Land in spirit...