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That month he enrolled in Airman Flight School in Norman, Okla. He was a weak student, according to Dale Davis, director of operations. The problem could have been a language barrier. Moussaoui spoke fair English, Davis said, but some of the school's instructors had problems communicating with him. He left the school after a heart-to-heart with Davis about his lack of progress. Investigators have noted that both Atta and Al-Shehhi visited Airman, though they didn't enroll...
...rejection of America and Western values; others are seeking hope and a sense of purpose in an ever more dismal and disillusioning national scene. "This is a generation of hopelessness," says former National Assembly member Daniyal Aziz, "and people need hope to get by." Pakistan's institutions are weak, its political leaders are discredited and its economy is a shambles. An explosion of religious seminaries has filled the vacuum caused by a deficient government education system; a million children are enrolled in medressas and emerge qualified only for religious work. Housewives and grandmothers who used to spend their mornings gossiping...
...homosexuality meant that I had probably been molested as a boy; even that I couldn’t really be gay since, in a pre-interview with my parents, my dad had at one point interrupted my mom—thus proving that he wasn’t the weak, submissive father that a homosexual ought to have. Adult gays usually lived shallow, unfulfilling, empty lives—but if I wanted, he said, I could change. I tried to argue, but as a middle-schooler I was no match for a licensed psychologist three times my age. Riding home...
...Green tea ice cream—but Tuscanini’s has a weak imitation—it’s only good in Japan...
...pretty much any other ?stan you can think of. Wall Street watchers figure the bottom is right around here somewhere, but investors still need a reason to be confident about the future - to rally the way they rallied when the Iraqi army turned out to be a bunch of weak-fighting surrender candidates, and it was suddenly, instantly clear that the U.S. was going to win, quickly and safely. Think it?ll be that way with Osama bin Laden and his stateless, shapeless, cave-dwelling band? George W. Bush says no. Maybe we should keep that in mind...