05-13-2008, 05:31 PM
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:: Maverick ::
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Earth ... and you?
Age: 28
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Re: Muslim running for Colorado district rep.
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Originally Posted by AmroodWaala
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" ... [the people in this district] don't vote as much on intelligence, and articulation, or who has the best ideas,...."
no shyt
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Ya don't say. ....
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Unlike his sisters, Ali did poorly in elementary school, and his mother suspected that he had a learning disability. He had trouble reading at first, and he and Seeme now sponsor a program to provide newspapers to Pueblo elementary students. The papers arrive with a little booklet that includes a photo of the mother and son.
"I didn't make it easy for him. I lectured him. I spanked him. I knew he had the potential to make it," Seeme says.
In spite of Ali's poor grades, he followed his sisters to Groton, a prestigious Massachusetts boarding school with a tuition rate comparable to private universities. And his mother continued to keep a close eye on his progress, lambasting him when he graduated last in his class. "She said, 'It might not embarrass you that you get bad grades, but it embarrasses me,'" Ali remembers
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