Word: civilizing
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...reduced stage for a man once wined, dined and courted by congressional leaders and Presidents - nearly all Republican - and backed by a large lobbying apparatus in Washington. He will appear not as a genius of finance but as the deposed chairman of a defamed colossus who still faces a civil lawsuit by the New York attorney general's office over accounting issues...
...once al-Qaeda-infested western province turned against the insurgents and sided with the U.S. military, providing the model for what became a nationwide campaign known as the Sahwa. But that model is in trouble. "The Sahwa has been infiltrated by al-Qaeda," he says somberly. "A civil war is coming...
...behind the Girls Gone Wild video series. Francis' videos of topless coeds made him a fortune - quite literally off the backs (and especially fronts) of young women - until an ill-advised shoot in Panama City, Fla., in 2003 led to Francis being jailed in a dispute over a civil suit that stemmed from the videotaping of underage girls...
Iraq's civic society has blossomed since the fall of Saddam Hussein, who sought to rigidly repress it. There are some 6,250 registered organizations operating in the country today, as well as a Ministry of State for Civil Society Affairs and civil society committees in provincial governments. But there are still limitations. NGOs cannot merge with one another or form networks without the permission of the government. Furthermore, the participation of non-Iraqis, even in international NGOs, will be limited to 25% of an organization...
Khaled al-Asadi, a member of parliament's committee on civil society organizations, says that although Saddam's dictatorial regime was toppled, some of its habits linger. "Certain groups within government want to put their fingerprints all over the work of NGOs and the law governing them," he says. "They still think in terms of control and surveillance. The Iraqi people were raised on this mind-set. It's not easily or quickly erased...