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Bathed in the television's fiery glow of images from the World Trade Center explosions, Pakistani banker Anar Khan turned to his four young sons curled up next to him on the rug. "See? Evil brings evil upon itself," he exulted. "This is Allah's punishment for the wrong that America has done to Muslims." It is easy for Khan to understand the mentality of the airline hijackers who unleashed their apocalyptic destruction on New York and Washington. He can comprehend how 19 educated men, despite having seen the world in all its wondrous multiplicity, can crash airliners into skyscrapers...
...Durham says, In ways, you can see how the school was trying to sweep everything under the rug...
...able to look into Vladimir Putin?s eyes and see his soul, but he cannot tell when an employee is lying through his teeth. On the evening of July 4, George W. Bush was approached by a White House usher who told him that his brand new Oval Office rug had arrived. Wouldn?t he like to take a peek at it? The President said he?d love to, opened the door and was greeted by 85 friends gathered for a surprise birthday party...
...point is that there is a serious issue here that people have brushed under the rug,” said Natalie A. Landreth, a third-year law student who is organizing the action...
...successful, she said, "All he had to do was not be Bill Clinton. All the questions of legitimacy got pushed under the rug because the media was totally obsessed with the way Bill Clinton left the White House...