Word: ganges
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...After his January capture in Manila, al-Ghozi said he carried out the bombings on the orders of JI operations commander Riduan (Hambali) Isamuddin. Equally worrying, recent Mindanao bombings suggest that Abu Sayyaf has returned to its roots as a purely terrorist organization rather than a kidnap-and-extortion gang...
Around us in the line are dozens of little kids, some wearing capes and carrying brooms in homage to Harry, Hermione and their gang. But we don’t feel out of place—sharply-dressed, fast-talking New York yuppies abound as well, and even a few 17-year-olds like us. Potter-mania has struck the entire Upper West Side, judging by the size of the crowd. Julia and I leave the store each wearing a pair of plastic-rimmed Potter glasses and clutching our 750-odd page treasures to our chests. Harry...
...high school, Tsuyoshi, who played drums for a Kraftwerk and Cocteau Twins-inspired new wave band, spent most of his school days smoking cigarettes with his bosozoku (motorcycle gang) buddies. "But since my grades were good, teachers hated me more," he adds, laughing. His slacker attitude continued into university, where the budding DJ spent his graduation day "dancing in Goa." His absentee rate once prompted a worried Nihon University College of Art professor to land him a job at a local TV production company. He lasted two weeks. "Then I dropped out." He spent the next eight years wandering between...
...Peter Shaw was about to be shot on a mountain path in Pankisi Gorge when he broke free and hid in gorse bushes. He escaped after five months captivity, during which he had been kept chained in a cellar. The banker was seized in June in Tbilisi by a gang disguised as policemen. His unaided escape will do little to enhance President Eduard Shevardnadze's claim that he's asserting authority over the gorge. FRANCE That's All Folks A Red Cross refugee camp at Sangatte, in northern France, shut its doors to new entrants and began preparing...
Meenakshi Iyer was heading home to her husband when a Hindu gang boarded her bus, baying for Muslim blood. As a Hindu, Iyer was safe. But she knew the man beside her, Raja Chowdhury, would be killed if they discovered he was a Muslim. "I'm Mrs. Iyer," she told the mob, "and this is Mr. Iyer, my husband," she lied, introducing Chowdhury. And that was it. The gang moved on, questioning other passengers, forcing men they doubted to prove they weren't circumcised...