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...tall man with stylishly unkempt hair and no beard who wore Western clothes, Zougam hardly looked like an Islamic fundamentalist. He did not appear religious. In Lavapies, a Madrid melting pot of North African, Chinese and Indian immigrants, Zougam ran a locutorio, one of the popular shops where you can make cheap phone calls abroad. The owner of another locutorio says Zougam was an expert in "liberating" phones--altering handsets sold cheaply by service providers to take prepaid SIM, or internal identity, cards. Among Zougam's customers was Yarkas. According to the November 2001 indictment against Yarkas, police tapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's The Enemy Now? | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

...only think of the Cornell men’s hockey team to fit this billing. Seemingly every year the squad—and its obnoxious fans—storm Bright and turn it into Lynah East. The unkempt wreckage they leave behind in the form of a despondent hockey team is not unlike that of the five-star hotel room after (insert favorite heavy metal band here) checks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KING JAMES BIBLE: Zen And The Art Of Ivy Athletics | 2/27/2004 | See Source »

...There is a place now reserved for their bones, a burial ground in Beijing dedicated to those who have died for their lost causes. A row of 14 unkempt graves lies near a railroad track, a tiny plot of earth too isolated for anyone but petitioners to claim. Some of those buried here had committed suicide out of despair, including one man who last April threw himself in front of a train just meters away from his eventual grave. Others succumbed to disease after living in flimsy shacks through Beijing's frigid winters. "I wonder if their families even know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nothing Left To Lose | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

...Variation is “yobbo.” Someone who is very unkempt in appearance who favors “trakky-daks” (sweatpants) and “thongs” (flip-flops...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Australian Slang from A to Zed | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

British Sea Power, instead, sing about Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic voyage in the Spirit of St. Louis, parade around like a group of unkempt, outcast forest rangers and make a really big deal about their interest in birds...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: British Sea Power | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

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