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...when the two met again, after the U.S. had struck Afghanistan with cruise missiles in retaliation for the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania--which were attributed to bin Laden--they had a tense, half-hour exchange. "He reverses himself completely," Turki recalls. "He starts spouting bin Laden propaganda against the kingdom. He was very, very hysterical, high-pitched, screaming, gesticulating. I just stood up and said, 'I'm not going to hear any more of this.' I told him, 'What you are doing is going to bring harm to Afghanistan.'" Just as Turki never grasped...
...true for many whose lives until now were defined largely by their differences. "I was very skeptical of the new unity back when people first started waving flags," says Brandon Wolf, 54, a computer programmer from Houston. "I'm not skeptical anymore." As a gay man, he was struck by a sudden sense of belonging. "There was media coverage of gay families, gay pilots and gay heroes. The Red Cross responded without blinking that it would honor gay and lesbian relationships when determining who would be provided assistance. And then to top it all off, Jerry Falwell got a public...
...when it came time to tell her parents about Gillespie, Ricks hesitated, knowing his race would be an issue. "I told my mom I met this great guy who was smart and handsome and," she says with a giggle, "a little bit white." Her mother, she says, was "struck dumb." But soon her parents came to know and like her boyfriend...
Caitlin E. Stork ’04, who participated in FOP under Lewis, said she was particularly struck by his leadership skills...
...votes of Tufts’ 200 janitors, tallied yesterday, approved a tentative agreement struck last Thursday between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 26 workers bargaining committee and OneSource, the private company that Tufts hires for maintenance and janitorial services...