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...Habib ’07 is a social studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House. When not writing for the English-language Daily Star, she spends her time teaching William M. Rasmussen ’04 how to say, “I swear I am not a CIA or Mossad agent” in Arabic and picking up bad Lebanese habits like smoking Marlboro Lights, drinking highly caffeinated tea and sleeping in the afternoon...

Author: By May Habib, | Title: Returning to Lebanon | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

Well I, for one, will not stand idle, for I have lived the Palestinian dream; I have seen it almost come true. And I have witnessed the horrific collapse. And I, by God, swear that a childbirth gone so wrong can wait no more. This is why I speak, and this is why the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is more than a question of land, security and terrorism...

Author: By Mohammed Herzallah, | Title: Speaking Up for a Wounded Nation | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

...Plenty More To Swear About" [July 5], columnist Joe Klein noted that Vice President Dick Cheney deployed the F word against Patrick Leahy on the Senate floor. Cheney later commented that he felt better afterward. He may be right. I uttered the same obscenity at Cheney, and it made me feel better too. LOUK WIJSEN Alameda, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 26, 2004 | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...homesick as hell," Kerry says. Raised a Catholic, Kerry says he found comfort and company in church, becoming quite religious and serving as an altar boy. "I remember him writing me to remember to say my prayers," Peggy recalls. Cam, on the other hand, recalls how John learned to swear in Italian. "That part I do remember. Him coming back from vacation and spouting 'Spaccare la faccia, porco!'" Cam says with a laugh. The phrase roughly translates as "Shove it in your face, pig" and was "probably one of the milder things he learned," says Cam. "I had to learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making Of John Kerry | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...people swear." MARK PHILIPPOUSSIS, Australian tennis player, after spewing obscenities at the umpire during his Wimbledon loss to Tim Henman and for which he was fined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

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