Word: recruited
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...terrorist organization whose former leader was executed last year for the kidnapping of 16 Western tourists in 1998. But the more likely suspects, experts say, are international troublemakers operating in Yemen. Bin Laden, who attempted to blow up an Aden hotel housing U.S. service members in 1992, has helped recruit and support several fanatically anti-American terrorist cells, including the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Army of Yemen, which is headed by Bin Laden's brother...
...effort to recruit more student theatergoers, Never Swim Alone presents to Harvard a quick, hour-long and free performance with racy humor embedded in a fast-paced verbal joust. Two men, Frank and Bill, argue about everything from the size of their homes to the quality of their lives to the size of their...you get the idea. Beneath the humor lie subtle references to repressed memories and undertones of violence. In this verbal boxing match, the referee becomes a woman killed in a drowning accident while racing with the men, who as young boys were desperately trying to impress...
...game show asked permission to recruit Harvard students on campus this semester, but were denied access to campus facilities by College officials...
...then disaster struck. In 1995, the NCAA found Miami guilty of recruiting violations and suspended 31 of the school's athletic scholarships. Unlike Ivy League football, large Div. I-A programs live or die by their ability to recruit with scholarships--and Miami effectively died...
...Vietnam-era drama Tigerland (which opens in theaters this week) arrived nearly unnoticed. By the end it had emerged as the festival's biggest surprise, and its heretofore unknown star, Colin Farrell, 24, had critics using words like "James Dean" to describe his performance as Bozz, a rebellious Texan recruit who helps his boot-camp buddies in Fort Polk, La., avoid Vietnam combat. A native of Dublin, Ireland, who dropped out of high school to study acting, Farrell had no trouble trading his Irish accent for Bozz's Texas drawl, but he's finding it hard to keep his briny...