Word: lites
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...true is modern Syria, which is mostly Sunni but since 1970 has been ruled by a small Shi'ite subsect known as the Alawites.) Sunni rulers maintained their monopoly on power by excluding Shi'ites from the military and bureaucracy; for much of Islamic history, a ruling Sunni élite treated Shi'ites as an underclass, limited to manual labor and denied a fair share of state resources...
...perhaps the finest glimpse into how the war is driving the country's large middle class out of Iraq, devastating entire professions. It takes good connections and lots of money - $8,000 to $15,000 - to get to Stockholm from Baghdad, but now it is not just the élite who are willing to pay the price. "At first we saw the really wealthy people arrive here," says Paal Aarsaether, unhcr spokesman in Stockholm. "But over the last year we're seeing a lot of middle-class people as well." Having granted asylum to 2,330 Iraqis in 2005, Sweden...
...part of a new crop of young African-American politicians--like Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Illinois Senator Barack Obama--who attended élite colleges. Do you feel any kinship with them...
...hard-knock story. To reach an élite level, Arenas has fought through personal and professional rejections, most recently his exclusion from the Team U.S.A. roster that played (below expectations) in the World Championship last summer. It's an omission that befuddles Smith: "He's doing things only the greatest players in the league have done...
...have facial hair, calculatedly placed light boxes with sinister circuits of wires, batteries, duct tape, and a lighted cartoon character in strategic locations throughout the city. The danger posed by these devices is almost too terrible to contemplate: In the alternate universe where al-Qaeda terrorists hide bombs in Lite-Brite toys, these devices could have been lethal weapons of mass destruction. The evildoing entrepreneurs who hatched this plot, in wanting to force their way of life (or, at least, their product) upon all decent Bostonians, succeeded in making the city and its denizens look, well, stupid. Fiends! They must...