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...Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was the kind of guy you could have taken home to mom. Smart and friendly, he once jumped in front of a train in a London tube station to rescue a fallen commuter. But he also, in the name of the Islamist cause, gleefully threatened a hostage with decapitation in 1994. That hostage survived, but Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal Pakistan correspondent whom Sheikh is charged with kidnapping in January 2002, did not. The video of Pearl's beheading can still be found on the Internet (though the identity of the actual knife wielder remains...
...Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was the kind of guy you could have taken home to Mom. Smart and friendly, he once jumped in front of a train in a London tube station to rescue a fallen commuter. But he also, in the name of the Islamist cause, gleefully threatened a hostage with decapitation in 1994. That hostage survived, but Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal Pakistan correspondent whom Sheikh is charged with kidnapping in January 2002, did not. The video of Pearl's beheading can still be found on the Internet (though the identity of the actual knife wielder remains...
...freshman dorm, Residential Life Coordinator Gina D. Burke said. Many HoCo leaders said that they think the process will be completed just as quickly as in years past, despite the change. “Everyone will get the information within the hour,” Adams HoCo Co-Chair Omar M. Abdelsamad ’09 said. “There’s a lot of freshman dorms, but really, there’s not that many letters, especially when you think of people getting broken down into groups of eight.” Those on the receiving end?...
...used in the same spirit as the party fund: to improve campus social life. She added that freshmen will also benefit from the HoCos’ increased budgets because they might be more apt to attend House events this spring after receiving housing assignments tomorrow. Adams HoCo Co-Chair Omar M. Abdelsamad ’09 said he appreciated that, if the resolution passes, it would be up to the HoCos themselves rather than the UC to decide how to use the money. He added that, unlike the party grants, these additional funds could benefit a lot of students...
...Omar is the favorite character of avowed “Wire” fan Obama, who has also called the show one of his all-time favorites. It’s only after watching “The Wire” in its entirety that it becomes clear how significant a major politician being a “Wire” fan really is. The show’s about the system against the individual. More importantly, it’s about how America’s various wars—the war on drugs, the war on the middle...