Word: meccas
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...ones that can pressure Microsoft to open up - the firm's own clients have clout too, and they may be the most persuasive. BEVERAGES Muslims Sip The 'Real Thing' as soft-drink marketing goes, it's a bit more inflammatory than "the real thing." "Each time someone buys a Mecca-Cola," says the entrepreneur who has taken orders for 1.5 million bottles of the drink in Europe, "they're saying to George Bush, and the war-criminal Sharon, we don't agree with your policies." Responding to calls for a boycott of U.S. products across the Middle East, French Muslim...
...where, you ask, would an academic develop teaching skills? Labs and libraries are not a mecca of social skill and public speaking ability. “They should learn in school,” you say? Yes, they should. But most graduate programs require extra semesters and tuition to complete a college-level teaching certificate, an unlikely choice for a starving graduate student eager to obtain university status with a brilliant dissertation. And we all know how successful required TF positions are for graduate students with no teaching talent whatsoever...
...charges or proceedings were brought. After they were freed from custody, the seven were driven to Dhaka's Sheraton hotel where they spent the night, and then disappeared. TIME's HUJI source claimed the trafficking story was merely an official smoke screen. "These are the same guys from the Mecca," he said. "These are bin Laden's people. They've been hiding here for several months...
...militants want to come in here and buy themselves new passports and new identities, stock up on any weapons they might want and maybe do a little refresher training before heading off again, there's nothing to stop them." Indeed, December was a repeat visit for the Mecca, according to the HUJI source. In June 2001, he says the boat sailed from Karachi to Chittagong with 50 other militants who had completed their training in bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan...
...with their counterparts in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and have a long history of supporting rebels fighting Indian rule across the border, including providing safe houses in Dhaka for the leaders of the United Liberation Front for Assam (ULFA). The HUJI source and the portworkers who saw the Mecca arrive claim that the man who greeted the new arrivals was a major in the DGFI. The major checked the visitors in by name and led them to a fleet of suvs lined up on the docks, add the portworkers. A spokesman for the DGFI denied knowing that members...