Word: ismail
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...democracy" that envisaged a new constitution and the first national elections since 1990, and a possible reconciliation with detained Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. The junta barely made a step down that path to peace, but Suu Kyi told U.N. envoy to Burma Razali Ismail in March that Khin Nyunt was someone she could deal with. After that endorsement, some residents of Rangoon started calling the Prime Minister the "second most popular figure in Burma"?after...
...need to put our guns where are our mouth is,” said Omar Ismail, director of Darfur Peace and Development, a multi-national non-profit organization that advocates for peace in Darfur. “Our government needs to do far more than it’s doing; all it’s done for all this yammering and ‘g-word’-using is sanction the rebels,” said Lecturer in Public Policy Samantha Power. Dallaire said the American media is partly to blame...
...WHAT'S TINA GOT TO DO WITH IT? Filmmakers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory have set many of their films in India. But the duo's The Goddess, still in preproduction, has Hindus up in arms over Tina Turner's being cast in the title role as the goddess Shakti: the singer's sex appeal is "improper" for the divinity, according to one anti-Tina petition...
...operative wanted for his alleged role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, they also brought in two South African men. Or did they? South African officials in Pakistan have yet to interview the detainees, who were carrying passports identifying them as Feroze Ganchi, 30, and Zoubair Ismail, 20. The families of two South Africans also named Ganchi and Ismail say the passports must have been stolen from their relatives, who went to Pakistan for religious studies. The families have not heard from the men in over two weeks. Whatever the truth, South African authorities worry that...
...government of Sudan remains defiant, however. In a statement issued yesterday, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail dismissed the suggestion that any foreign intervention was necessary, threatening that U.S., British or U.N. intervention would only aggravate the situation...