Word: nur
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...People don't understand how I feel. They think I am just sitting in here doing nothing." NUR MALENA HASSAN, on perceived indifference to her attempt to reclaim a world record by living with more than 6,000 scorpions in a glass box for 36 days. The 27-year-old Malaysian has been bitten twice...
...sixty-member Collegium mixed choir serenaded audiences Friday evening with a truly classic program. Most notably, the evening’s Brahms theme was very well carried in “Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen” and “Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren.” The versatile talents of the chorus were displayed in the former work with an achingly beautiful rendition of the first movement followed by rounds in the second movement. Especially praiseworthy was the piece’s sensitive harmonization between the soprano and alto parts...
...Core course, Foreign Cultures 17, “Thought and Change in the Contemporary Middle East,” doubled in enrollment compared to previous years, according to its professor, Nur Yalman, professor of social anthropology and of Middle Eastern studies...
...guilty policemen were former guerrillas of the Moro National Liberation Front, a Muslim secessionist group that had been granted autonomous control of four provinces under a 1996 peace agreement.) The incident followed a clash Tuesday in which 18 people were killed during a rally in support of former governor Nur Misauri, recently jailed for launching an ill-fated rebellion in the area last November...
...Muslim rebels out of the city and angry residents in. Five guerrillas were hacked to death by citizens infuriated by a government decision to give rebels safe passage back to their camp in exchange for the freedom of 110 civilian hostages. Manila charged renegade Governor and MNLF leader Nur Misuari with rebellion and sedition in connection with the violence, which broke a 1996 peace pact between the government and the guerrilla group...