Word: khalil
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...wrote about a high school shortstop named Khalil Greene, back before Peter Gammons knew his name and girls screamed it from the stands of Petco Park...
...Middle East at the time, from King Feisal of Saudi Arabia to Yasser Arafat to a young Iraqi named Saddam Hussein. Aburish was part of the Palestinian diaspora after the creation of Israel in 1948, and in exile his family took up the tourist trade in Beirut. There Mohammed Khalil Aburish (everyone called him by the more informal name Abu Said) pampered clients, including Saudi princes, during a period when no one paid particular notice to Saudi princes. Those contacts served him well once he took to journalism. TIME's access to Saudi Arabia, for example, was due in large...
...want to do things that conform to my time frame, not someone else's." MATTHEW KHALIL, senior at UCLA, who says he goes to the movies about once a month but, like many other Americans, prefers to watch DVDs at home...
Meetings aimed at establishing a political face for the insurgency have been under way for months. An earlier conference collapsed beneath the weight of the conflicting interests of the various groups. But Abu Khalil says his group is trying to spark a debate among the insurgents on what kind of country they want to create. Whereas the jihadis are aiming to establish a Taliban-style Islamic state in Iraq, the nationalists say they are willing to participate in a democratic Iraq, though one that is independent of foreign influence. The push for political legitimacy flows from their success at fending...
...based in Fallujah. Their goal is to create a political party that can contest and win elections, held after U.S. withdrawal, in areas like Fallujah. "Thinking has started to move toward asking what happens after the Americans leave," says a nationalist commander who asked to be identified as Abu Khalil. "So far we have only shown that we know how to act militarily, but the military wing cannot lead the country into the future...