Word: habib
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...audience. These subtle directorial choices might fail to lure the average viewer, but those who open their hearts to the life of a man working at a fishing boat dock will likely find themselves steadily absorbed in his relationships and all their complications. The story revolves around Slimane (Habib Boufares), a tired 61-year-old shipyard worker who is laid off from his job after decades of faithful labor. His ensuing unemployment is marked by an absence of direction and purpose, and a hint of despair. “I’ve done nothing, left nothing...
...because Grameen employees themselves are making the loans, not training an American bank to do it. In New York City, Shah Newaz, who started working for Grameen in 1982, hands out checks to borrowers at Grameen America headquarters - a sparsely furnished one-room office above a laundromat. In Omaha, Habib Chowdhury, who has worked for Grameen since 1985 and is a veteran of its Kosovo start-up, has found more than 250 borrowers since June and has already lent $378,000, mostly to Mexican immigrants stocking up on inventory for small businesses selling things like cosmetics, clothing and Herbalife weight...
...hammered out a tentative cease-fire. Not a bad week for a man who, if the State Department handed out speeding tickets to freebooting statesmen, would have spent much of his 34-year-career in traffic court. His style places him in the ranks of troubleshooters like Philip Habib and Richard Armitage, whose authority derives not from their titles but from their willingness to operate in the highly volatile, here's-the-deal-dammit world of eyeball-to-eyeball diplomacy. The formula is simple: earn the trust of the principals, talk straight and cut the best deal you can; then...
...government’s existence The independents, who had threatened to withdraw form the Cabinet and thus cause the Premier’s resignation if he compromised too much in the Tunisian dispute, decided to remain, at least temporarily, in the ministry. And at the same time, President Habib Bourbguiba of Tunisian reaffirmed his ties with West and indicated that he might compromise on several of the demands he has made as a result of the French bombings of Sakiet-Sidi-Youseff...
...Habib Rizieq said there was no basis for fears of violence, and promised that his group, along with the Indonesian Council of Ulemas, would help "re-educate" followers of the group. "If the government issues the ban we will tell our followers to protect them," he told reporters at a press conference. Rizieq said recent clips of an FPI member on the Internet calling for the death of Ahmadiyah followers were taken out of context, as the video was filmed at a closed gathering of FPI members and did not represent the views of his organization, a puritanical group best...