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Cairo is one of the world's most crowded, impoverished cities, and by the early '90s, Atta felt the intense pressures on middle-class Egyptians not to slip in social rank. His friend Khalifa says Atta grew frustrated because he was unable to fulfill his academic ambitions in his homeland. He believed that political favoritism at Egyptian universities would keep him from the top spots...
...hear that there are generals authorized to shoot a passenger jet out of the sky should they conclude that it poses a threat. The metal detectors are so sensitive that an underwire bra will trip them. So will a candy wrapper. Yet a federal marshal was able to slip through with a buck knife in his pocket. Thus many passengers, returning to the skies last week, resorted to their own incantations: It's never been safer to fly. Lightning doesn't strike twice. If I stay home, they...
...shows that an unidentified, unarmed black male passed the teller a deposit slip with “give me all your money” written...
...Harvard’s lead was short-lived, as Yale tied the game again with 18:26 left. Senior Tovia Martirosian broke into the Crimson circle and took a long shot from the left side of the circle which seemed to slip by Harvard’s defense into goal...
...Kerr Keys M. Soccer Renaissance,” Sept. 26). While the editors should be ashamed for running this article before congratulating our peers on the field, the article is perhaps worse in quoting no independent sources (players, fans, other coaches or soccer observers) and thus letting the story slip into Kerr’s self-congratulation. Neither Kerr nor The Crimson, for instance, mention that Harvard’s senior soccer players represent the last vestiges of the 1998 8-6-2 team that almost made it to the NCAA tournament their freshman year. Kerr neither created nor independently...