Word: hasan
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William James said, "Evil is a disease." But it can be an atrocious liberation, like the cap flying off a volcano. The mind bursts forth to explore the black possibilities. Vietnam taught many Americans about evil. Hasan i Sabbah, founder of a warrior cult of Ismailis in the 11th century in Persia, gave this instruction: "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." It is a modern thought that both charmed and horrified William Burroughs, the novelist and drug addict who like many in the 20th century somehow could not keep away from horror. During a drunken party in Mexico...
Clifford and law partner Robert Altman, who is First American's president, are now under scrutiny by a New York grand jury seeking to determine whether the pair were knowing front men for one of the most ingenious bank tycoons of the modern age: B.C.C.I.'s founder, Agha Hasan Abedi of Pakistan. Clifford and Altman insist they were not, despite long and close connections. They were attorneys for B.C.C.I. from 1978 through 1990, as well as attorneys for First American, billing the two banks for more than $1 million during that period. Clifford, who has long defended Abedi, says...
...startling news that the world's fastest-growing international bank, no longer headed by its financial genius founder, was in deep trouble. Hundreds of millions of dollars was missing from its capital accounts, and hundreds of millions more consisted of loans granted to insiders to buy stock in Agha Hasan Abedi's banks. Such loans were never meant to be repaid, and now the accumulating interest charges had grown so large they could not be ignored. The reason for the grim announcement was an audit by the British office of the Price Waterhouse accounting firm that revealed for the first...
Colgate (81): Dave Goodwin 4-7 4-4 14; Jim Cook 0-2 0-0 0; Devin Hughes 5-11 6-7 17; Jack Ehretsman 3-7 4-4 10; Jay Armstrong 6-11 0-0 12; Hasan Brown 1-1 0-3 3; Brennan Lothery 1-1 2-2 4; Jack Ruppert 0-0 0-0 0; Jason Whatley 1-1 0-0 2; Jonathan Stone 6-12 2-2 14; Steve Benton...
...will be an unprecedented demographic make-over. As quickly as possible, Kuwait's population will be dramatically reduced, perhaps even halved. "How * do you get people to actually stop being lazy?" asks Ambassador Saud. "Why should anyone care about a real education, or making do with fewer handouts?" asks Hasan al-Ebraheem. The answer is that nothing will change unless everything changes. And the way for everything to change is to take a country that had more than 2 million people before August and recreate it with only 1 million. "The only way to exit the trap of dependency," says...