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Some women wear the veil of their own volition, and not to comply with rules imposed by their husbands or parents. “I am happy behind the veil, I protect myself from depraved stares. Neither my father, nor my brother, nor my husband forced the full veil upon me; it's a personal choice," wrote one Muslim woman on LePoint.fr, as quoted in The Christian Science Monitor...
...Well, they're very important. I think that in many ways, private donors who give their own money, or their foundation's money, truly care about the objectives. They can actually have a beneficial influence on bureaucracies that generally try to protect their behinds from being criticized. Those bureaucracies are maybe less mission-oriented than private citizens that put up their own money. Very often, this is how we use money at our foundation, to set examples or to innovate in ways that the public authorities by themselves are unlikely to do. Generally speaking, I'm in favor of [using...
...less complaisant way. Two years ago, when Brown was a federal prosecutor, she squared off against then private attorney Eric Holder in a tense plea negotiation that cost Holder's client, Chiquita Brands International, a $25 million fine and an admission that it had paid off Colombian terrorists to protect its lucrative banana-growing business there. (Read "Terrorism and Bananas in Colombia...
...When I found out I was terminal, I knew there was one thing I had to do: protect my children," Picat said in a March interview with TV channel TF1. "I needed to be sure they'd be able to live normally...
...opted by Hungarian fascists in the 1930s and 1940s. The party's chairman, Gabor Vona, 30, also chaired the Magyar Garda - or Hungarian Guard - a private militia that appeared at Jobbik rallies and marched through scores of Hungarian villages as part of its self-proclaimed mandate to protect "ethnic Hungarians" against the 6%-10% of the population of 10 million that are ethnically Roma, or gypsy. Vona was briefly detained by police at a July 4 rally called to protest a court order banning the Garda, which has now "relaunched" itself by adding the word Movement to its name. Despite...