Word: fighters
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...begun work on a memoir of her life as an anticommunist activist in the 1980s. "The history of our nation will not be written by the secret police. I will not allow it!" she declares. "I am not a collaborator," she then adds quietly. "I am a freedom fighter...
Boyle talked about one such fighter, “the teacher,” whom she described as a “kind, jovial guy” who hated Saddam Hussein...
Connors closed by saying that U.S. troops will have to leave Iraq before the resistance fighters quit, quoting an Iraqi fighter who told him, “I’d rather live in a hovel than have my country reconstructed by people on the outside...
Life looks simple from the 75th floor, but the Manhattan that sprawls below is a violent, festering jungle of corruption: "Nothing gets built in Gotham without a kickback," Kelly tells us. Briody is haunted by his past as a street fighter for the I.R.A., and he gets in even more trouble for hooking up with Grace, a beautiful bohemian artist who happens to be the kept woman of Johnny Farrell, a top-level Tammany Hall fixer, who in turn is worried about the rising power of the Italian gangsters, whose gift for sick violence freaks out even hardened...
When he served as India's finance minister from 1996 to 1998, Palaniappan Chidambaram became known as a forceful economic reformer. After a stint in the political wilderness, Chidambaram returned to his old job last year in a new role: poverty fighter. He spoke to Time's Aravind Adiga in his office in New Delhi...