Word: sultan
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...Sultan, an award-winning assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), resigned from his position Sept...
...says concerns like these first came to his attention while he was Kennedy School dean and heard stories from foreign students who had difficulty entered the country because of restrictions. Now the Sultan of Oman professor of international relations, he describes his role as that of a “concerned citizen...
...several Taliban chiefs that U.S. intelligence officials had told him were hiding in Pakistan, according to a member of the Afghan delegation. Musharraf, says the source, denied any knowledge of them. "If the U.S. has specific evidence that the Taliban are hiding here," says presidential spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan, "they should tell us, and we will act." Recently, Musharraf told reporters he was "exasperated" by claims that Taliban leaders were hiding in Pakistan...
...their sublime run to the championship, the Sox put to rest one of baseball's most irresistible legends: that the great George Herman Ruth, a.k.a. Babe, Bambino and Sultan of Swat, had jinxed the team when the Sox sold him to the Yankees in 1920 for $100,000 so that Boston owner Harry Frazee could finance a Broadway show. With Ruth, the Beaneaters won three World Series, the last in 1918. After Ruth, they reaped eight decades of squat, with the occasional run at the title always ending in tragedy, including seventh-game World Series losses to St. Louis...
...wouldn't say no." Fellow fighters respect Basayev but few like him. Two former guerrillas interviewed by Time two years ago in Vedeno remembered Basayev as a harsh, mercurial leader. "One moment he could be nice, the next minute he could curse you out, really insult you," recalled Sultan, a Basayev aide. "Then he would come back, see you were offended and say it was a joke. I was never convinced." (About a year ago, Sultan was detained by the Russians and has not been heard from since.) Kazbek, a deeply religious young fighter who joined Basayev...