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Reid was not born to Islam; he is a convert with a convert's zeal. His grandfather was a Jamaican immigrant to Britain, and his father Colvin Robin Reid met and married Lesley Hughes, a white woman who was the daughter of an accountant and magistrate. Richard was born in London in 1973, by which time his father, known as Robin, was in jail for car theft. All told, Robin has spent about 20 years behind bars. "I've seen the inside of most of London's prisons," he says. "I was no great example...
Ward finished off the Crimson’s attack by downing Brown freestyler and Jamaican Olympian Dawn Chuck in the final 100 with a stellar 49.98 split. Ward capped off Harvard’s second relay record of the night, touching the wall in a cumulative time...
...Londonistan Calling Reid was not born to Islam; he is a convert with a convert's zeal. His grandfather was a Jamaican immigrant to Britain, and his father Colvin Robin Reid met and married Lesley Hughes, a white woman who was the daughter of an accountant and magistrate. Richard was born in London in 1973, by which time his father, known as Robin, was in jail for car theft. All told, Robin has spent about 20 years behind bars. "I've seen the inside of most of London's prisons," he says. "I was no great example...
...Zeitgeist every fourth year only to melt away in the post-Games thaw--is at an all-time high. At Salt Lake we'll have all kinds of sleds, cross-country races (some with guns!), ski jumps and ski-jump hybrids. In the past, these events have given us Jamaican bobsledders, hyperdrugged European ski champs and Eddie the Eagle, Great Britain's wonderfully woebegone ski jumper who had all of Calgary ducking for cover in 1988. The U.S. has won about a medal and a half...
...France. All three are suspected of links to Djamel Beghal, another Franco-Algerian detained in France and believed to be a key associate of Osama bin Laden. Beghal lived in London and Leicester in the mid-1990s, frequenting extremist mosques. Even suspected shoe-bomber Richard Reid, the Anglo-Jamaican accused of trying to blow up an American Airlines plane, is alleged to have come into Beghal's orbit...