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...discrimination against minority Coptic Christians, he faces a sentence of up to seven years. Ibrahim says it's worth it, to dramatize the need for democratic reforms in Egypt. "I have resigned myself to paying the price," he says, "for what I have been fighting for." Ibrahim's ordeal began with a midnight knock on his door in June 2000. It has made him a celebrated prisoner of conscience at a time of increasing pressure on the Arab world to democratize. Journalists and human-rights groups have called for the charges against him to be dropped. Ibrahim, who teaches...
...wanting to face the ordeal of renewing his U.S. visa again, he has decided to work in London after graduation...
...having arrived at last in Cambridge to finish a Harvard career that began in 1994, el-Gaili recounts the extraordinary ordeal that began for him in the late summer...
...times I felt like I was in a very dark place," Cooper says. She read and reread the 23rd Psalm: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me." At various times during the ordeal, she has been screamed at and she has been patronized, say her colleagues. She continued to work, keeping long hours to help the accounting firm KPMG redo Andersen's audit and staying at her parents' house because it was closer to the office. Finally, Lance piled their two kids into...
...wind as they scrimmaged on the lawn at Hyannis Port, Mass. But for more than a decade now, as biographers have burrowed under the New Frontier, another J.F.K. has come into the picture. That would be the one with a multitude of serious illnesses whose life was a hidden ordeal of pills and injections, the one whose severe chronic back pain led him eventually to find relief in amphetamine shots from Max Jacobson, the celebrity physician later known as Dr. Feelgood. "I don't care if it's horse piss," Kennedy is reported to have told his disapproving brother Bobby...