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...same. Now you can victimize us even more. Now you can post police everywhere spying on us." After he left, some of his friends, embarrassed by his outburst, offered reassurance that his views were unusual. "He's not like that all the time. He's a really nice lad," said one. The big challenge after London is to prevent more nice lads from growing up to be terrorists. With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., Brian Bennett, Sally B. Donnelly and Adam Zagorin/Washington, Jessica Carsen/Leeds, Helen Gibson and Ghulam Hasnain/London, James Graff/ Paris, Tim McGirk/Islamabad, Amir Mir/Lahore, and Lindsay Wise/Cairo
...takeaway joint on the end of a strip of budget shops that appear to be closed much of the time. Ali, Pav, Shy, Raja, Safi, Asif and Hasif are talking about their friend Kaki, another local boy, born nine miles from their Beeston neighborhood. "He was the best lad," says one, "everybody liked him." "He was gentle" and "he got on with everybody." Ameer, a younger boy in a nearby park, could "definitely not" believe it was Kaki. The evidence suggests otherwise. From CCTV images captured at rail stations in Luton and London and personal documents found at the scenes...
...distress sale of Lehman Brothers to a subsidiary of American Express in May 1984 ended the independence of a private investment banking house that lad been in existence since 1850. The final reckoning yielded Lehman's 72 partners sums ranging from nearly $ 1 million for the most junior to $10 million-plus for the top echelon. This gilded dissolution followed months of infighting that had effectively deposed two chief executives of the firm. The first was a former Nixon Cabinet member with a Greek immigrant background but Wasp manners and connections; the other was a company insider who throughout...
...here and mutter about it though," said Peggy, whose five-month-old, Jason, rode his mother's hip as easy as any other good Western lad ever sat a pinto. Jason is the only male connected with the paper, which draws its management and work pool from the 24-member Penistaja Homemaker's Extension Club. It was called the Penistaja Woman's Club when the first issue came out on April 6, 1964, with a front-page dedication to "faith in God and country, hope for our future and charity to all," an admirable aim that has appeared in each...
...lad's talent may remind Eddie of his old self, but if Vincent is a natural nine-ball artist, his personality is strictly that of an adolescent eight ball. Not for him the dour reserve and cunning calculation of the traditional pool player, setting up his opponents for a hustle. He likes to announce his presence at the table with a thunder break. When he is on a hot streak, he boogies around the baize as if he were starring in a music video. To him, guile is a synonym for cowardice, and patience the deadliest of virtues. There...