Word: sadat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. KING HASSAN II, 70, leader of Morocco for 38 years with an uncanny survival instinct; of a heart attack; in Rabat. The ever diplomatic, pro-Western Hassan helped facilitate a number of key Middle East negotiations, including a visit to Jerusalem in 1977 by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. A deft handler of vastly different factions in his country, among them Islamic militants, the charismatic ruler was said by Moroccans to have baraka, or blessedness. Hassan, who had been ill for several years, will be succeeded by his son Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed...
...list: the Top Chrome Domes of the Century. Although we would not be very comfortable flatly asserting that the following Men of the Year were bald, it would be safe to say they were balding or, better yet, follicularly challenged: Gandhi, Churchill, Eisenhower, Truman, Mossadegh, Khrushchev, Pope John XXIII, Sadat, Gorbachev, De Klerk and Pope John Paul...
...reaction was immediate. The next day, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, spiritual leader of Iran, called Arafat a "traitor" and a Zionist "lackey." Hassan Nasrallah, spiritual leader of Hizballah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia, followed suit, suggesting that Palestinians assassinate Arafat, just as Egyptian radicals had killed Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. In a leaflet faxed to reporters, the military wing of Hamas, breaking with its practice of eschewing internecine violence, accused Arafat of treason and warned that its activists, if pushed, might "direct their war and guns, out of necessity," against the Palestinian Authority...
...thing is, despite this extraordinary single, Lord Jamar and Sadat X seemed to hide behind Grand Puba's light--for a while at least, because even Puba's solos left much to be desired, especially Lord Jamar, who didn't have Sadat's distinctive "flow" that sounded like he was holding his nose while not caring about what rhymed with what. So by last year, after Puba proved to be capable of only a single (don't front, you know you started rocking Tommy only after you saw the "360 degrees" video) and after Sadat X's solo attempts flopped...
...boys. Tell your girl to takenote of Sadat's story in "The Beat Change" andespecially Puba's in "Probable Cause." And how canyou go wrong with Common on your album (even if hedoesn't rip as we know...