Word: khans
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Desaulniers leads a squash double life. He currently holds the undisputed top ranking among North American amateurs. With the 70-plus ball (the staple of the American game, although rapidly being replaced by the soft ball internationally), he occupies the second slot overall in North America, behind only Sharif Khan and ahead of several outstanding pros who have nothing to do but, well, play squash...
That was Rudyard Kipling's tribute to Afghanistan, a barren moonscape of a land at the "crossroads of the world," and to its proud and savage people. Conquered by Alexander the Great in the 4th century B.C. and by Genghis Khan in the 13th century A.D., Afghanistan in the Victorian era served as a buffer between Imperial Russia and the British raj. The Afghans accepted it all, but they exacted a bloody price. For generations, the Hindus of India prayed for deliverance from "the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger and the vengeance of the Afghan...
...have been screaming for justice, for having our grievances redressed. The U.S. Government placed the Shah on the throne?that is, the Allies appointed him [in 1941] after ousting his father Reza Khan [who was] a British stooge. The U.S. Government consistently helped him stay in power in the face of our people's opposition to him. The Shah squandered all our resources?our national dignity, our natural assets, the talents of our youths and everything else we had. Obviously, Iranians cannot have a good view of the U.S. Government. And recently our people discovered that the Administration had turned...