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...that he couldn't trust those around him. He took to mimicking the habits of the Prophet Muhammad recorded in Muslim texts, including the way he brushed his teeth and wore his sandals. Lacking formal religious training, he prayed incessantly and consulted frequently with religious advisers--attempts, perhaps, to shed his murderous past and reinvent himself as a savior of Islam. But he never got the chance. U.S. forces bore in on al-Zarqawi by tracking his spiritual adviser Sheik Abdul-Rahman, a man the terrorist may have hoped would help guide him toward a new life...
...SHED DEBT Start with credit cards, then auto loans. Move on to your home-equity line of credit and, last, your mortgage. That isn't easy, and automatic payments can really help. So does thinking of it this way: if you have $10,000 in credit-card debt and are paying only the minimum, adding $1 a day to the payment will save you $12,615 in interest expense and retire the debt 35 years earlier, according to The Late Saver's Guidebook nefe.org) The sooner you stop paying interest, the more you will save...
...Though he's by no means an enforcer, Nowitzki has finally shed the "soft" label, buying into coach Avery Johnson's plan that he both bang down low and bomb threes. And if he leads Dallas to a title, Nowitzki will stamp the European revolution of America's game. The first wave of Euros from the early '90s - Vlade Divac of Serbia, Toni Kukoc and Drazen Petrovic from Croatia - had to earn the begrudging respect of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and the basketball establishment. The next wave - Nowitzki, Peja Stojakovic of Serbia, Pau Gasol of Spain - could play, but still...
...stimulated by the general education discussion, they may not necessarily provide the pattern for what general education courses will look like. REVIEW IN PREVIEWAnd already, several of the participants in that discussion admit to feeling little ownership over their proposals.“Frankly, I wouldn’t shed any tears if it didn’t pass,” Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker told The Crimson this spring. “It appears to me that we really have to start this general education from the start again,” Feldman says...
...buying papayas and getting the windows cleaned on his car and buying organic dog food for his dog.“It was the antithesis of the sense of entitlement that had been pitched very fervently at Harvard,” he adds. “I was shed very quickly of that on my very first job.”Caroline C. Cunningham ’81, a close friend of the Cuse family, says that Cuse put in his time before being able to achieve his success.“The story about Carlton that I think...