Word: mariam
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...could have carried out the attacks, in part because, they claim, the U.S. has failed to bring proof against bin Laden to the Arab media. This absence creates fertile ground for his views, even among those who would not endorse his acts. "I found bin Laden strangely convincing," says Mariam Ali, a Cairo teacher...
...respective territories, but drew a straight line in the vicinity of Badme to connect two rivers. That straight line disappeared from many maps after 1962 when Eritrea was incorporated into Ethiopia, but reemerged with the amicable secession of Eritrea in 1993, following the overthrow of Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam. Both countries insist Badme falls on their side of the geographically invisible line, and they appear willing to commit tens of thousands of lives to win the argument. "Everyone knows an arms embargo won't do anything to end the fighting because there are so many weapons stockpiled in both...
...When Mariam Naficy and Varsha Rao made the venture-capital rounds in autumn 1998, the funders to whom they pitched their proposed beauty site, Eve.com were mostly male--and often skeptical. "They'd say, 'There aren't many women on the Net,'" Rao recalls...