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...causing the loss of over 20,000 Khalifa Group jobs; hundreds of thousands of other Algerians will never get back their Khalifa bank accounts. "Moumen's growing success, fame and fortune was so amazing, it gave many Algerians hope that 'finally, we can have the good life, too,'" comments Waël Hasnaoui, an Algerian working in Paris as an advertising consultant, and a member of Khalifa's original social circle. "In fact it was incredible - literally. His entire business ascent was obviously too beautiful to be true, and his eventual failure was absolutely predictable." In a state-stifled economy...
...entire lingo that helped us scope the flawless athletes who sauntered the Mather dining hall in the dinner hours. The genius of Missy Eliot’s ditty, “Work It,” infused our daily speech. “I need a glass of wa-ter,” an innocuous dining-hall apropos phrase, became understood as “give me some space; I’m trying to flirt with this guy in the line.” But our social dynamic wasn’t about just playing up the overdone behavior...
...performances--beyond Frank Sinatra's, even beyond Elvis'." Retired correspondent Bruce van Voorst was on the chartered Air France 747 that carried Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini from his Parisian exile back to Tehran on Feb. 1, 1979. "At sunrise, somewhere over Turkey," remembers Van Voorst, "the Ayatullah said prayers, then wa* As served an omelet for breakfast...
...have escaped the area say the group has set up a Taliban-like regime, under which women are veiled and Islamic law is h* Aonored--or else. According to a former Iraqi intelligence agent imprisoned by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq, a member of Ansar's ruling council, Abu Wa'el, once worked for Saddam's intelligence agency, though PUK officials cannot confirm the link. But some connection between Ansar and Iraq seems clear...
...LATEST COVER STORY The Wa: Burma's Drug Cartel Ne Win: Death of a Strongman