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...least five times.) Harrison's company, Handmade Films, produced Life of Brian and Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, then subsidized many of the projects starring or written by members of the splintered troupe: Gilliam's Time Bandits, Palin's The Missionary and A Private Function, Cleese's Privates on Parade, Idle's Nuns...
...majority of women voters.” The other speakers shared their efforts in various regions of Sudan, particularly Khartoum, to provide education to women through a literacy program and a number of grassroots organizations and campaigns to unite women from different tribes. Literacy education classes serve the dual function of “building awareness of community problems” and educating women “so they can vote and pick leaders well,” Hassan said. Sally Dale, who attended the event, said she was particularly struck by the women’s stories of tremendous...
...While both guests are considered key U.S. allies at the very epicenter of the war on al-Qaeda, neither man considers the other a friend, or even an ally. Karzai accuses Pakistan of enabling the massive Taliban resurgence inside Afghanistan - which has left his fledgling democratic administration unable to function as an effective government in much of the country. On Tuesday, he called on Musharraf to close the radical Islamic madrassa schools in Pakistan whose graduates are ready-made recruits for extremists. His charge that the Taliban insurgency works out of Pakistan is backed by NATO, which underestimated the scale...
...Credits went where they belonged: "New banks immediately accomplished their basic function - that of extending credits to encourage budding businesses," says Ulf Wokurka, a former Deutsche Bank director and now cfo of Samruk, Kazakhstan's holding company that runs such giants as KazTelecom and oil and natural gas firm KazMunaiGaz. The state rapidly privatized over 10,000 trading, service and industrial firms. As often happened in post-Soviet countries, the best of these firms were sold off to insiders, shoring up the power bases of important clans. But the biggest economic engine was oil, and that required outside help. Says...
...Function was only part of the problem. The idea of trying to pass had begun to trouble me. It made me feel as if I had something to hide or be ashamed of. When I started to go bald, I shaved my head. No comb-overs, transplants or toupees for me. So why try to conceal a handicap? I was now proud of how I had lost my hand. The stump had a story to tell, regardless of my motivations for grabbing a grenade. Why not draw attention...