Word: shaka
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wonder if my roommate, Shaka, would get mad if I hooked up with his hot sister...
...Nablus, the road bumps down a mile-long stretch of chop shops where cars stolen from Israel are gutted for parts. Arafat's police don't dare touch these garages. "It's a free-trade zone," jokes Khader. Outside the door of his second-floor office, Nablus mayor Ghassan Shaka'a keeps two guards armed with Kalashnikovs. Smartly dressed in a checkered sports jacket, Shaka'a is a member of the executive committee of the P.L.O., a confidant of Arafat's. "Balata is not against me," he says, laughing dismissively. Out on the street, however, he rarely shows his face...
...When Shaka shot himself, Franklin had been stunned. "I didn't think black people killed themselves. I thought it was a white man's disease." Shaka had been a football star at the local high school. But sidelined with an injury, he began to worry about his mother Cherilyn, who was divorced from Les and would die of cancer in 1991. On Oct. 19, 1990, Shaka picked up his father's pistol and killed himself in a bedroom of the Franklins' dream house...
...apart," Les told TIME shortly after discovering Jamon's body. "But he promised me that he'd never hurt me the way his brother hurt me, and in the final analysis he broke his promise, and I'm very angry." He adds, "There will be no Jamon's place. Shaka was 16; he was a baby. Jamon was a 31-year-old man. I'm not going to give him that. He knew I loved him. He made a horrible, horrible decision...
...will remain the Shaka Franklin Foundation's chairman, but he is putting aside his work in suicide prevention. For the first time in his life, he feels defeated. He is also selling the home he worked so hard to build. "My two kids died 25 ft. apart, one in the bedroom and one in the garage. We thought it was our dream house, but it holds only sad, sad, hard memories...