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Some of Farrakhan's impact is his bootstrap message of independence and self-reliance. Says Yvonne Haddad, professor of Islamic history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst: "Some of the issues that Farrakhan is highlighting are important to the African-American community, and no one else is highlighting them." She cites his attack on welfare as "subsidizing single women to have babies," his complaint that the Federal Government spends more on prisons than on education and his charge that white-collar crime is not considered as heinous as other offenses. In meetings with the Congressional Black Caucus, Farrakhan proposed unconventional...
STANDARD ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES RARELY APPLY IN Brazil. But one law has stood the test of time: the length of a Finance Minister's tenure is inversely proportional to the rate of inflation. With prices rising 28% a month, President Itamar Franco put Finance Minister Paulo Haddad on the firing line, berating him and criticizing his policies in public. Haddad, who had barely 10 weeks to settle into the job, resigned and was replaced by former Transport Minister Eliseu Resende. He is the third Finance Minister since Franco took office five months ago and Brazil's ninth in the past eight...
...bomb that ended up on the Pan Am jet could have been assembled by Khreesat. However, last month the Palestine Liberation Organization reported that it was built by Khaisar Haddad (a.k.a. Abu Elias), who is also a member of Jibril's Popular Front. Haddad purchased the detonator, the P.L.O. said, on the Beirut black market for more than...
Though director Jeremy Blumenthal has assembled an excellent cast overall, certain performances are especially appealing. In Shanley's Welcome to the Moon, Marwan Haddad perfectly juxtaposes the roles of an insecure teenager and a man who can't even kill himself successfully, switching from adolescent angst to teary hysteria with ease...
...Ronnie, the perpetual suicide attempt, Haddad cries on command and listens to the misery of others with an endearing sympathy. Ronnie is someone who knows other people's problems so well because he's managed to have many of those same problems himself. And as the infatuated teenager, Haddad reveals many of the silly yet sentimental aspects of puppy love without seeming hokey...