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...happened to the caches in Al-Ghadeer was no accident. Who was the man with the torch? Dental technician Amjad Sha'ab, 30, who saw the man running away, speculated that he was a member of the Saddam Fedayeen. Amjad's brother Ahmad, 36, said it was "a foreigner," shorthand for the Arab volunteers, mainly from Syria, who remain at large in Baghdad...
...Heights, Mich., was sent home for insisting on wearing a T-shirt that labeled President George W. Bush an “international terrorist.” Of course, the phenomenon of clothing-as-speech is not limited to high schools; even adults use their clothing as an ideological shorthand (as Lamar “I’m Wearing This Flannel Shirt to Demonstrate That I’m un Homme du Peuple” Alexander’s 1996 presidential campaign made clear...
...undeniable strength of Black Friday is the depth and intelligence with which Zaidi portrays the bombers themselves. In penetrating this closed world, Zaidi ridicules the shorthand caricature of terrorists so popular nowadays: that they are "evil," "fanatic" or "mad." Instead, we get to read about ordinary men who start out with earthly motivations and none-too-resolute convictions but who ultimately come to embrace terror. One such character is Badshah Khan, an underworld foot soldier recruited to the plot and swept up in righteous determination, dutiful loyalty and terrifying excitement. He scouts targets, assesses their vulnerability and helps plant...
Harvard's superb shorthand play, especially during three minutes and 49 seconds of B. C. power-play, (11 seconds were 5-on-3) from 13:17 to 18:06, kept the game scoreless until the buzzer sounded to end the first period...
...WorldCom, Cooper desperately needed to carry more plates. The culture was so anti-jargon that Ebbers had ordered her never to use the phrase "internal control"--shorthand for the fundamentals behind auditing--again. He said he didn't understand it, says a WorldCom employee. But that is like asking a weatherman not to use the word forecast. So Cooper huddled her small team together and planned their debut. She called Ebbers, Sullivan and a few others to a meeting in the main conference room. She was going to force them to see what an audit department could do for their...