Word: nahr
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...person is specifically responsible forslavery in the new world, it's Columbus," saidErich Fox Tree '91, a Lowell House resident whohas served as president of Native Americans atHarvard-Radcliffe (NAHR) for the past two years."The more people know about Columbus, the lessthey celebrate the holiday...
...With Columbus came a change to their [NativeAmericans] whole way of life, and so many werekilled," said Ellen I. Smith '92, who served lastyear as vice-president of NAHR...
...rumors turned into fact. At 5:30 a.m., as the city slept, Syrian artillery shells slammed into the refugee camps of Baddawi and Nahr al Barid on the outskirts of Tripoli. Three columns of attackers advanced on Arafat's forces, trapping the chairman and his men between the hills and the sea. The rebels included not only Fatah dissidents but guerrillas from Syrian-and Libyan-sponsored factions within the P.L.O. Though Damascus denied direct involvement, Syrian guns and tanks supplied the firepower while Syrian Defense Minister Major General Mustafa Tlas coordinated strategy with Abu Mousa...
...days after the beginning of the offensive, Nahr al Barid fell and the noose tightened. Last Monday, Arafat and his top advisers moved into Tripoli, igniting fears among the populace of 500,000 that the city would soon be swallowed up by the fighting. The Arafat loyalists set up artillery and rocket launchers in a grove of orange trees near the waterfront quarter and fired at the troops advancing on Baddawi, a dreary, ramshackle warren of cinder-block houses that normally is home to 10,000 people...
...Chutzpa-nerve; meshuga-crazy; goyim-gentiles; schmutzike-dirty; fineh menschen-nice people; fahrbhundjet-very, very lost; nahr-fool; zich austzeigen-show off; chochmes-jokes, wisecracks...