Word: citizens
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Classic design may be timeless, but evergreen luxury brand C?line is due to collect her senior citizen's bus pass. The fashion house turns 60 in December and has launched a range of commemorative goods to celebrate the occasion...
...instead provided more uncertainty. A document the Americans hoped would start the forging of a national identity-and undermine a rampaging insurgency by drawing Sunnis into the process-is still unclear on what it means to be an Iraqi. Does it mean being primarily a religious Muslim or a citizen of Anbar? Must Iraqis choose between being a Kurd or an Arab...
...lightly injured, was staged in order to win sympathy votes and ensure Chen's subsequent victory?a result that sparked protests across Taiwan. The end of the inquiry is unlikely to silence critics, who maintain that questions remain unanswered about the attack. ARRESTED. XIE CHUNREN, 56, Chinese-born U.S. citizen; on suspicion of spying for Taiwan; by Chinese authorities; in Sichuan Province. Arrested upon his arrival from the U.S., Xie has remained under "residential surveillance" at a state-run guesthouse since May 31, according to Jerome Cohen, an expert at Chinese law at New York University who is advising...
...Palestinians go home, they pass through military checkpoints where they are forced to show they have not taken any greenhouse fertilizer, which could be turned into explosives for use against the settlers. As two intifadehs brought ever increasing violence to Israel, Gush residents came to think of themselves as citizen soldiers on the nation's front lines, ensuring its survival by their refusal to be cowed. "We are proud of what we built here, what we did here for ourselves and for the country," says Sammy. "Even when the mortars hit, we never shot back, and we never ran away...
...Roberts, his ABC colleague for almost twenty years, recalls that it wasn't unusual for Jennings to get misty-eyed when discussing the virtues of the U.S. Constitution. He bragged about acing his 2003 citizenship exam, and was eager to exercise his new rights as a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen. "What was so endearing in the 2004 election was just how excited he was to vote for the first time," says Roberts. "Last night, after I heard the news, I got so sad thinking that was the only time he'd ever get to vote...