Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese government's disapproval of the nomination has also affected Wei's family. A spokesperson for Wang in Boston told the Associated Press that Chinese police had detained Wei's brother, Wei Yaotao, although his detention could not be confirmed...
...that Assad, whose country remains on the State Department's list of terrorist states, is promoting his son as the sort of Syrian leader with whom the world, Israel included, will be able to do business. Bashar talks the language of economics rather than politics, and, until his brother's death, had chosen a career in ophthalmology rather than following his father's path into the army and power...
...behind him," says Halima Khalid, 39, a Syrian homemaker picnicking with her family in Quneitra, a Golan town regained from Israel after Syria's 1973 surprise attack. He will have done it all, after surviving three wars with Israel, a fierce Islamic uprising, a coup attempt by his own brother Rifaat and the demise of Syria's only important ally, the Soviet Union. Comments Damascus law professor Mohammed Aziz Shukri: "This man built his glory not on his military career but by maintaining stability...
...credit. It's all due to prisons, claimed the GOP, citing their legislation encouraging longer prison sentences and claiming that this keeps criminals off the streets and acts as a considerable deterrent. Others point to the strong economy and say that in a nation where seemingly everybody's little brother is in on a hot IPO, now more than ever crime doesn't pay. And demographers say it's simply the fact that there are now fewer young men, the group statistically most likely to be committing crimes...
Wooten came back weaker after his mid-set break on both nights, but he recovered for the encore. The weakness stemmed from minor problems with the band's talent level, which can be attributed to an attempt to be inclusive. Wooten's band contained both his middle brother Joseph, a keyboard player, and Regi, his oldest brother and a guitarist. Joseph's cheesy pop material was irritating, especially his "Hero" from 1987, but Wooten recovered thanks to his improvisational wizardry...