Word: membered
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...known that the Prophet was born about A.D. 570 to a member of the respected Meccan clan of Hashim. His father died shortly before Muhammad was born, and his mother when the boy was only six. Two years later, his doting grandfather Abd al-Muttalib died, leaving the orphan in the care of a poor uncle, Abu Talib. As a youth, Muhammad was set to work tending his uncle's herds; he later recalled that task as a mark of divine favor. "God sent no prophet who was not a herdsman," he told his disciples. "Moses was a herdsman...
...angry, provocative new book called Orientalism (Pantheon; $15), Edward Said, 43, Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, argues that the West has tended to define Islam in terms of the alien categories imposed on it by Orientalist scholars. Professor Said is a member of the Palestine National Council, a broadly based, informal parliament of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He summarized the thesis of Orientalism in this article for TIME...
...become a popular pastime to say apartheid is immmoral and then do nothing else," Chris Nteta, a member of the African National Congress, told the crowd in front of Memorial Chapel. "You are comrades, comrades in the struggle against the apartheid regime in South Africa...
...school, Richard A. Guthrie '80, a member of the Committee to Strengthen Afro-American Studies (CSAAS), told the ralliers "we pledge out deeper commitment to the spirit of Afro-American Studies and to the struggles against racist oppression and its pomposity couched in supposedly responsible, morally bankrupt enclaves the world over...
Smith's philosophy seems to be as good as any for this year's crew, which faces Penn and Cornell this morning with only one returning member from last year's sprint titlist, junior Pasha Lakhdir in the seventh seat...