Word: shari
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout much of his life, there were warning signs that something was terribly wrong with Jeffrey Dahmer. His stepmother, Shari Dahmer, who was interviewed last week by the Cleveland Plain Dealer before clamming up to the press, said that "when he was young, he liked to use acid to scrape the meat off dead animals." At 18, Jeffrey witnessed the bitter divorce of his parents and lived with his mother in Bath Township, Ohio. But one day, said Shari Dahmer, his mother disappeared with his younger brother, leaving Jeffrey with nothing. Often Dahmer attempted to sedate himself with alcohol...
...years Jeffrey lived with his grandmother in West Allis, Wis. During the late 1980s, Shari Dahmer recalled, a harsh chemical odor began to emanate from the basement and garage. When Jeffrey's father Lionel, a chemist, found "bones and the residue in the containers," Jeffrey told him that he had been stripping the flesh from an animal he had found. "Now I look at it, and I think that it's possible he was destroying human body parts," said Shari Dahmer...
...accusations that the country's most influential Islamic scholars last week condemned the ultraconservative campaign as "counter to the interests of the Muslim society." Like the moderates, the conservatives have endorsed the concept of a Consultative Council and called for an end to corruption. But they also want Shari'a (Islamic law) applied to banks, courts and the media. The government, for example, would be barred from borrowing money from banks, and noncriminal offenses would be tried in religious courts. So far, King Fahd has rejected the demand...
...that will help educate the public," says Abdul Muhsin al-Akkas, an executive of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "We are not yet ready for free elections, but it is a step forward." In response, the religious conservatives marshaled support in the mosques for the implementation of Shari'a. Last month religious leaders in the conservative stronghold of Buraida spread rumors that a popular sheik, Salman al-Oda, had been arrested. Five thousand followers marched on the governor's palace in protest...
...approval, but opponents of the bill, including educated women and lawyers, charge that it would pave the way for a militant and repressive Muslim theocracy, confine women to their homes and bring the media and the educational system under the control of Islamic clerics. The worst-case interpretation of Shari'a also favors the banning of music, dance and cinema, and the mandatory wearing of veils by women in public...