Word: shaker
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...Fatah al-Islam is headed by Shaker al-Absi, a veteran Palestinian guerrilla fighter who originally trained in the Syrian Air Force. He is believed to have fought American forces in Iraq and was linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq who was killed a year ago. Al-Absi was sentenced to death in absentia by a Jordanian court in 2004 for the murder of American diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman. His fighters reportedly number 200 to 500 and are drawn from several Arab countries...
...five-second margin. Later, the B team thumped Michigan State by almost 13 seconds, notching a time of 8:05.2 to the Spartans 8:18.1. The Bulldogs finished a distant third in both races. “I think everyone overall was really satisfied,” freshman Ariel Shaker said. “We want to be able to beat teams like Yale, especially when its comes time for [Eastern] Sprints.” Despite not earning first place in the varsity eight division, the Black and White still raced impressively. The crew rallied from third-place position after...
...despite racing stronger and cleaner in this heat.Both boats, however, fell behind No. 2 Southern California, which won the varsity and second varsity eights in addition to the varsity four races.“Yesterday morning was not a very good race for us,” freshman Ariel Shaker said. “We were pretty frustrated with ourselves and with the conditions.”“We felt a lot better with the second race, she added. “It was frustrating to lose, but it was a lot cleaner and stronger race...
...than Betty Suarez. On ABC's hit comedy-soap Ugly Betty, she's a fashion-magazine assistant who is distinctly unfashionable--chunky sweaters, frizzy hair, bear-trap braces--but succeeds through good old Yankee values like perseverance, optimism and hard work. Smart and sweet-hearted, she embodies the Puritan-Shaker-Quaker principle of valuing inner good over outer appearance. She's as Norman Rockwell as a chestnut-stuffed turkey. The actress who plays her is even named America Ferrera...
...flip to page 314 of November’s GQ, you’ll be just one flip away from seeing a familiar face: that of Alex C. Math ’10. At the end of his senior year of high school in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Math, now a freshman in Matthews, was interviewed and trailed by Devin Friedman, GQ’s senior writer and an alumnus of Shaker Heights High School. And when a photographer showed up at his door to follow him and his prom date around for the evening, Math was excited about his newfound...