Strong Embedding of 2-Generated Cores in Groups of Finite Morley Rank and Odd Type Alexandre V. Borovik * Department of Mathematics UMIST PO Box 88 Manchester M60 1QD United Kingdom alexandre.borovik@umist.ac.uk Jeffrey Burdges † Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University Hill Center, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, U.S.A burdges@math.rutgers.edu Ali Nesin ‡ Mathematics Department Istanbul Bilgi University Ku¸ stepe S ¸i¸ sli Istanbul Turkey anesin@bilgi.edu.tr Version 11, 21 July 2003 1