Word: yasmin
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Tony Baekeland grew up with two competing family identities. His great-grandfather, Leo Baekeland, was the inventor of Bakelite and the "father of plastics." His parents fancied themselves aristocrats. They socialized with Greta Garbo and Tennessee Williams, the Duchess of Sutherland and Yasmin Aga Khan. But they were vagabonds, getting by on good looks, lordly manners and copious spending. Brooks Baekeland was a self-proclaimed writer who never published. His wife was an artist too busy to paint. Each of them had a love of danger and a propensity for violence. Each seemed more interested in boasting of Tony...
...Yasmin brought her 12-year-old son Ahmed to Baghdad hoping that there were more medicines in the capital than in the local hospital in southern Iraq. But Owaid, who has blood cancer, is not getting any better. He has clots in his eyes and his lips are bleeding. Yasmin says that many kids in her village are falling sick. Most of them have the same symptoms: fever and pain in their joints because of swollen lymph nodes. Dr.Hussan walks past rows of sick beds, talking to desperate parents and their children. "All these patients are the same," he says...
Sheikh and Yasmin Dugla, 16, are both Muslim, and say they have felt discriminated against post-Sept...
...When Yasmin K. Bin-Human ’03 forwarded an advertisement for the exhibit to the Eliot House e-mail list, several students turned the discussion from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s effect on children to the conflict itself...
...logged on to thecrimson.com to read about The Game and found something even more disturbing--Yasmin Bin-Humam's naive anti-Israel polemic (Editorial, Nov. 17). In all fairness, it sounded like the kind of naive pro-Israel polemic I might have written when I was a sophomore at Harvard...