Word: outspoken
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...extremist religious groups, which often feed people into militant organizations, including those fighting for Kashmir. It's not a task for the fainthearted. Three weeks ago, the brother of Pakistan Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider was gunned down in the port city of Karachi because, police believe, Haider was outspoken against fanatical religious groups...
...business and local leaders called Community Action Now. Says he: "While we're not the Promised Land, we're making great progress and moving in the right direction. I think everyone's tired of fighting." Still, the effort is off to a bumpy start. White recently canned the most outspoken can member, the Rev. Damon Lynch, after he called for an economic boycott of the city. In addition, the chairman of the Citizen's Police Review Panel, Keith Borders, resigned, citing the city's lack of cooperation. "The administration and the police chief and the police division refuse...
...fellow Texan George W. Bush for his tax-cutting agenda, will step down after completing his term in January 2003. AWARDED. SHAHNAZ BOKHARI, 45, a Pakistani psychologist and publisher, the Weimar's Human Rights Prize for sheltering and tending to victims of domestic violence; in Weimar, Germany. Bokhari, outspoken about women's rights, is seeking to abolish the Pakistani tradition of condemning to death women who commit adultery. DIED. LARRY COSTELLO, 70, a five-time All-Star guard for the Philadelphia 76ers and former Milwaukee Bucks coach; in Fort Myers, Florida. Costello, known as among the last...
...didn't think this tawdry story was just going to go away, now, did you? Gary Condit certainly wishes it would - especially now that the 53-year-old Congressman has decided he will run for another term next year. That's despite outspoken criticism from the Democratic leadership, many of whom surfaced, shaking disapproving fingers, after Condit's much-hyped interview with Connie Chung. Local Democrats are already lining up in Condit's central California district, primed to challenge the battered pol in the March primaries...
...brother, the card of her closest male relative, even if she scarcely knows him. Manar, 35, a Riyadh translator, thinks ID cards for women will make a real difference. "As long as you are a follower, you cannot have a separate opinion, you cannot be outspoken," she says. "Once you have a separate identity, then other things will come." For most Muslim women, there are many things left to come...