Word: outlawed
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...Iraq civil society has no background before 2003. It was all controlled by government, a totalitarian regime. Iraqis couldn't do any humanitarian work - government does everything. You're not allowed to question anything. If you question it, either you're persecuted or you're an outlaw. After 2003 July, I joined UNIFEM and NGOs started to form in Iraq, women NGOs. They were quite active in thinking of the future, trying to make something. After 2005, it was really difficult, [there were] a lot of humanitarian violations. Networking was completely something new to the Iraqi culture. This kind...
...explosion was considerable.”But that literary urge cannot be kept out of the book. Maybe Claudia is both right and wrong: Literature cannot transcend politics, but politics cannot escape literature. It’s a truth that Bolaño lived when he led an outlaw band of avant-garde poets called the “infrarealists,” and it’s a truth that he writes into his book. One character, hoping to gain status but choosing to forgo violence, turns to “literature, which is a surreptitious form of violence...
...Although the nation's first post-independence presidential elections proceeded largely peacefully in May 2007, the continuing presence of outlaw soldiers has marred the storyline of a successful young democracy. Gang warfare by groups loosely affiliated with pro- and anti-Reinado forces have only added to the sense of anarchy. Reinado was due to be tried in absentia for his role in the 2006 violence, but the court case would have had little effect given that the former army commander was still on the run. "Even after the elections, we felt like we were waiting for something bad to happen...
...allegations come at a time when Congress is considering passage of a new intelligence bill that would effectively outlaw other CIA methods. During his testimony before Congress on Feb. 5, Hayden made clear his opposition to that part of the bill, but he may soon find that there's more than one way to uncover secrets...
Still, there are holdouts. Most police departments continue to outlaw beards, claiming they make officers look unprofessional. The management of the New York Yankees also refuses to let players wear facial hair below the upper lip. And then there are unspoken prohibitions in many parts of the corporate world. "I should have a right to wear my own facial hair as I please," says Justin Wolff, 32, a student at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, who hopes to keep his short beard when he starts working next year. "But I am not going to risk...