Word: samir
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...Reactions of New Yorkers to the Yankees’ World Series loss varied across campus, ranging from depression to anger to disturbing sexual excitement. Samir K. “40” Shankar ‘03 curled into a fetal position, sobbing, as the Diamondbacks’ winning run crossed the plate. Ten minutes later he broke into a rage, kicking his Phoenix-native roommate in the groin and breaking every television in his entryway with his bare fists...Felix P. Johnson ‘03 exuded smugness, despite the fact that he missed the first eight innings...
...earlier been headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, where its alleged ringleader, an Egyptian named Mohamed Atta, 33, had lived off and on for eight years. Atta is thought to have piloted Flight 11, the first to make impact; two of the other suspected pilots, Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Samir Jarrah, were also residents of the Hamburg region. The Hamburg cell, in turn, is thought to have been an operating unit of a worldwide network of terrorists called al-Qaeda, the name of whose reclusive leader is now known all over the world: Osama bin Laden...
...When Raymond Y. Rodham ‘03 and Samir K. “40” Shankar ‘03 found the Adams House foosball room occupied late Sunday night, they assumed that the room was being used for its intended purpose, and that the only rods being gripped were “those rods you turn to turn the guys, you know,” Rodham said. An anonymous masturbator proved them wrong. “Give me, uh, 30 seconds, guys,” the fiend muttered while blocking the door, a fistful of tissue clearly...
Whatever Atta was doing behind the scenes, he was publicly spreading the word of the Koran. Early in 1999, university officials gave him permission to found an Islamic student group. (Investigators believe he eventually met hijackers Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Samir Jarrah in the group.) The 40 or so members gathered to pray every day. The moderate boy from the outskirts of Cairo had grown devout, and he was surrounding himself with like-minded compatriots...
...tasks. I’ve had to put up with a Milton-like character who may actually one day set the Russell Senate Office Building on fire if he doesn’t get his way. I’ve also made good friends, who, like Mike Bolton and Samir, have made the hours pass more easily...