Word: samir
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...classes for middling achievers called Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID), designed for freshmen who enter with a GPA between 2.0 and 3.5 and show the potential to succeed in honors classes. The AVID classes teach them how to take notes and study for exams more effectively, and provide tutoring. Samir Webster, who came to Huron last year with pretty good middle school grades but an antiacademic chip on his shoulder the size of his blowout Afro, didn't apply himself until AVID class changed his attitude. He now has a B average. "I used to watch TV, play video games...
...imams, and close down radical mosques. Dutch police believe Mohammed B. was part of a terror cell called the Hofstad Netwerk, whose alleged leader, Syrian Redouan al-Issar, preached at Mohammed B.'s home. Around a dozen alleged members of the cell have been picked up so far, including Samir Azzouz, a Moroccan arrested in the Netherlands this year for allegedly plotting attacks on government and public sites, and Abdeladim Akouad, another Moroccan detained near Barcelona last year. Dutch police who stormed an apartment in the Hague last week were met by a grenade. After a 14-hour siege, four...
...waiting flew home to Yemen after the birth of a child. Mohammed wanted him dropped from the operation, but bin Laden refused. When the wayward Nawaq Alhazmi grew lonely waiting for orders in San Diego, Mohammed allowed him to search for a wife on the Internet. Another hijacker, Ziad Samir Jarrah, left the U.S. as many as five times to visit his girlfriend in Germany in the year before 9/11. He even sent her a last love letter, the only hijacker known to have written a farewell...
...advertising-industry conference in Detroit in 2001, she was speaking to a crowd of starstruck ad executives when somewhere in the crowd, a voice piped up with a fawning question. "Someone asked her, 'You dispense all this advice. Who taught you all these things? Who's your mentor?'" recalls Samir Husni, a magazine consultant who also spoke at the meeting. "She said, 'Me. Me. I did it all by myself...
...strength and vulnerability of the media empire she had built. At an advertising-industry conference in Detroit in 2001, the lifestyle guru was fielding questions from a star-struck audience. "Someone asked her, 'You dispense all this advice?who taught you all these things? Who's your mentor?'" recalls Samir Husni, a magazine consultant who also spoke at the conference. "She said, 'Me. Me. I did it all by myself...