Word: magnus
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...coach Tommy Soderberg says will rely on teamwork and spirit. "In Sweden we want a team that can work without a hierarchy, a team that is based on the dialogue between the players." This is easier when half your team is named Andersson (Daniel, Patrik, Andreas) or Svensson (Anders, Magnus, Michael...
Harvard added some more insurance in the eighth. Sheffield, who was moved to right in the seventh in favor of Hendricks, did a little bit of everything yesterday. The senior jumped on Lions reliever Jason Magnus with a leadoff double, eventually scoring on a wild-pitch and triggering a three-run eighth...
...ready his copy of Critical Essays by German poet and essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger to corroborate his belief that writing movies is a valid intellectual pursuit. In a passage Silva calls “very well put,” Enzenberger claims, “Retreat from the media will not even save the intellectual’s precious soul from corruption. It might be a better idea to enter the dangerous game, to take and calculate our risks...We must know very precisely the monster we are dealing with...
...weeks ago six Algerians detained in Bosnia, whom Americans suspect of being part of an al-Qaeda sleeper cell, were handed over to U.S. authorities. Elsewhere in Europe, Algerian extremists have taken a leading role in some operational cells and have also developed expertise in support activities. According to Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at Scotland's St. Andrews University, Algerian extremists have specialized in credit-card fraud, forged checks and false documentation. They have, he says, "become masters of support activity, providing safe houses, money and documentation to enable groups to launch terrorist acts...
...known for the radical, anti-American stance of its one-eyed, steel-clawed cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, but the Brixton Mosque adherents say that in their strict orthodox teaching, terrorism and suicide bombing are condemned to the point that they earn hostility from extremist factions. And according to Magnus Ranstorp, deputy director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at Scotland's St. Andrews University, the mosques themselves are not the problem anyway. The real threat is from the al-Qaeda talent spotters, trusted men of battle-hardened experience who use the mosques to find...