Word: khan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Genghis Khan sat with his Mongol comrades-in-arms debating the question, What is life's sweetest pleasure? One man ventured that it surely was falconry. Genghis Khan -- who was not Genghis Khan for nothing -- answered, "You are mistaken. Man's greatest good fortune is to chase and defeat his enemy, seize his total possessions, leave his married women weeping and wailing, ride his gelding, and use the bodies of his women as a nightshirt...
Paul Weyrich, the founder of National Empowerment Television (NET) says his politics sit to the right of Genghis Khan...
Hasty Pudding president Zara Aga Khan '94 saidthe club has professional bouncers who check theidentification of all who enter the building andthat the club follows the University's alcoholpolicy, which prohibits serving alcohol to minors...
...lamented with almost pathetic candor, "I felt really badly because I don't want to have to spend any more time on that than is absolutely necessary, because what I got elected to do was to let America look at our own problems." When the brutality of a local khan like Somalia's Mohammed Farrah Aidid rouses Americans from self-absorption, their response -- get out of there -- is as reflexive as was Bush's impulse to go into Somalia in the first place...
...caretaker Prime Minister during the three months before the election. Qureshi, a nonelected official, was imported from his home in Washington to ensure a fair campaign. He took office after Nawaz Sharif, like Bhutto three years earlier, had been forced out following a contretemps with President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, in a deal brokered by General Abdul Waheed Kakar, the army chief of staff. During his brief tenure, Qureshi cut tariffs, reformed tax collection and exposed some of the corruption that had flourished under the two preceding governments. A pre-election poll showed that 8 out of 10 Pakistanis would have...