Word: lois
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...Today, Nang Nang lives on the rugged Thailand-Burma border in the hamlet of Loi Tai Leng, the headquarters of the Shan State Army (S.S.A.) and the refuge for hundreds of families fleeing the Burmese army's long-running campaign of terror against ethnic minorities such as the Shan. They include more than 200 orphans: Nang Nang, a shyly smiling girl in a grubby tracksuit, shares a tin-roofed dormitory with dozens of other girls who sleep on a wooden platform over a mud floor. For many, this has been home for five years, but not for much longer...
...access roads. In Miller's time, prostitutes were considered as French as pastry. But with criminal gangs from Eastern Europe, West Africa and Asia now funneling large numbers of girls onto French streets, the Assemblée Nationale is ready to allay voters' fears over mounting lawlessness. The loi Sarkozy, as the legislation proposed by France's high-profile Interior Minister is called, is a ragbag of internal-security measures whose targets include gypsies, beggars and gangs found loitering in hallways, as well as hookers and pimps. The brief section devoted to prostitution abolishes a previous distinction between active...
...text considered to be the literal word of God. But in France, home to the largest Islamic community in Europe, an effort is in full swing to separate the eternal message of Islam from its medieval cultural baggage. Some of the fruits of that effort can be sampled in Loi d'Allah, Loi des Hommes (Law of Allah, Law of Men; Albin Michel) an extended dialogue in which Muslim sociologist Leïla Babès and Tareq Oubrou, rector of the Mosquée de Bordeaux, thrash out their often opposing views on the roles of women and individual...
...minutes before a second deadline of Saturday noon. Although Estrada did not actually resign, he agreed with the decision of the Supreme Court, which had met secretly early Saturday morning. The court resolved that "the people have spoken" and that they could not be ignored. Estrada and his wife Loi boarded a Coast Guard barge moored near the palace for the short trip to their family home in the Greenhills section of Manila, where they will be allowed to stay for five days. On Wednesday, under an agreement negotiators have reportedly reached, they will fly to Australia aboard the executive...