Word: muslim
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...Rauf is $31,707 per game. That's how much the Denver Nuggets guard is losing after being suspended by the NBA without pay for violating a league rule that requires players to "stand and line up in a dignified posture" during the national anthem. Abdul-Rauf, a devout Muslim, said he doesn't believe in standing for any nationalistic ideology. "My beliefs are more important than anything. If I have to give up basketball, I will," Abdul-Rauf said. "This country has a long history of (oppression). You can't be for God and for oppression. It's clear...
WASHINGTON: President Clinton left for Egypt Tuesday afternoon to attend a multinational conference aimed at "beating back terrorism." The summit is being held in response to the recent wave of suicide bombings in Israel that have claimed 62 lives. Muslim militant group Hamas has claimed responsibility for the bombings, saying they are meant to derail the peace process between Israel and Palestinians. "We must not let the terrorists in the Middle East have the victory they seek: the death of the very hope for peace," Clinton said Monday night. Clinton's trip is expected to be the first step toward...
...least 13 people were killed and 109 wounded yesterday in Tel Aviv, Israel, in the fourth suicide bombing attack in that country in recent weeks. The Muslim militant group Hamas has claimed responsibility for all the incidents...
Dudayev: First, a major hotbed of instability in the Caucasus will have been settled. Otherwise Dagestan [the neighboring Muslim republic east of Chechnya] could be next to explode. Second, Russia wouldn't have to send trillions of rubles here, since once the conflict is settled, we don't intend to ask Russia for any money. We can jointly exploit the riches of this land, including income from [energy] transports through this key geographical area...
...India about the unwillingness of United States intellectuals to seriously analyze Federal farm policy, the laughter from Spain about American feminists as unable to go top-free on beaches as they are unable to nudge Congress toward state-funded daycare, the careful analysis from a half-dozen countries of Muslim imperialism versus the iconography of Madonna, the reminder from Rome that Italy once governed one-third of present-day Somalia. Not liberal, not conservative, not European or Asian begins to designate overseas programming. Only different comes anywhere close, although at Harvard strange might do as well...