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...Christians claiming Allah?" asks businessman Rahim Ismail, 47, his face contorted in rage and disbelief. He shakes his head and raises his voice while waiting for a taxi along Jalan Tun Razak, a main thoroughfare in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital. "Everybody in the world knows Allah is the Muslim God and belongs to Muslims. I cannot understand why the Christians want to claim Allah as their God," Rahim says as passersby, mostly Muslims, gather around and nod in agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Christians Say 'Allah'? In Malaysia, Muslims Say No | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...fenced in and dominated by an oil-exploration tower that dwarfs their bamboo shacks. Several villagers took lowly construction jobs on the site but they were never paid so they've stopped showing up for work. "I hope they don't find any oil," says village chief Aye Thein Tun. "Because even if they do, none of it will come to us. It will just go to other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Scramble For A Piece of Burma | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...That's the plight of most everyone in Burma, even the ethnic Burmese. Balancing on a narrow bamboo raft in the middle of the Irrawaddy River, ethnic Burmese migrant Aung Tun sifts for specks of gold. Over the past decade, Chinese demand for gold has skyrocketed, and thousands of ethnic Burmese have moved to Kachin to pan for the mineral, as well as mine jade. But for the right to float his raft on the river, Aung Tun must pay fees to the Burmese government, the Burmese police and the KIO. If the specks of gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Scramble For A Piece of Burma | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...Bachelor”—what it realizes is a giant, prolonged orgy for Flavor Flav, formerly of Public Enemy, with 20 women whom he calls by nicknames like Bubblez, Hoopz, and Miss Latin because his drug use has led to memory loss.…Tun a state-of-the-art Beverly Hills gym while coping with lovers who sometimes throw glass at them:Who doesn’t love Jackie, the openly gay trainer at the center of Bravo’s “Workout?” She’s cute, she?...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Glued to the Boob Tube | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...senior at Boston University and NROTC cadet. That history began when the Second Continental Congress appointed Samuel Nicholas to organize the first two battalions of the Marines Corps on Nov. 10, 1775. According to the PowerPoint presentation, Nicholas recruited his first service members in Philadelphia’s Tun Tavern by offering them beer. The presentation ended with a more serious discussion of the situation in Iraq. Referring to an operation in Ramadi, the capital of war-torn Anbar province, Gurfein emphasized the dedication of Marines currently serving overseas. “They believe in their mission...

Author: By Rachel L. Pollack, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Marine Corps Reunites at HBS | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

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