Word: siad
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...aide, he "must not hear their voices" ...Residents of Kabul were generally too cautious to express concern about the Taliban out loud, but they certainly had reason to wonder: at the first Taliban-attended Friday prayer meeting, soldiers forced passersby into mosques at gunpoint. At the Malali High School, Siad Bibi knew that her life had turned a terrible corner. She was a cleaner until the Taliban decreed that she could not leave her house, which is right next door, without her husband, who is old and ill. "Now I have no work. I can't go outside," she says...
...this fall, Iftikhar tried to stop cooking pizzas at 2 a.m., but said fire concerns and comon courtesy kept him from forcing hungry students out of the establishment promptly at 2 a.m. He also opened a convenience store two doors down from the pizzeria. But business was suffering. Iftikhar siad the 2 to 3 a.m window of time without freshly cooked pizza brought his sales down 15 percent. And the noise complaints continued...
...Domb siad the reason baboons publicize their fertility probably has to with the high rates of infanticide in the baboon population...
...Although I won't be here next year, I think hopefully I've taught our freshman and sophomores something," Caramanico siad. "We're going to get some players in--our coaches are awesome and they're not going to give this...
Reconciliation and peace in Somalia? Since the collapse of former dictator Siad Barre's regime in 1991, the country has become synonymous with violence and chaos, the archetypal "failed state" in United Nations-speak. But 10 years on, Somalia is finally and slowly beginning again. In August a peace conference in neighboring Djibouti elected a Somali parliament that then chose Hassan, 58, a long-serving minister in the Barre regime, as President. In October, he and the new M.P.s arrived in Mogadishu, the capital, to begin re-creating their country from scratch. Last month the U.N. said it will begin...