Word: protector
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...small country of Dagastan, Bodrov and his crew transformed a town that spoke 36 dialects and languages into a working set, using townspeople as extras in many of the scenes. Bodrov found a star in one of them, the twelve-year old Valentine Fedotova, who plays Vania's protector, the daughter of his captor. Silent at first, her incredible eyes convey innocence while her daily life conveys drudgery. With her mother dead, she is the woman of the house, the cook, the cleaner, the farmer and the care-taker. She cannot help but care for the boy Vania, whom...
Moran, the current Kansas Senate majority leader, boasts that he has never missed a floor vote in eight years. He vows to be a vocal protector of agriculture and small business, and says he wants to shift power back to the states and fight income-tax increases. A favorite to take over for Senate hopeful Pat Roberts, Moran has logged more than 8,000 miles a month to deliver his message in all 66 counties of the "Big First," a district that comprises more than two-thirds of Kansas...
...thumbnail sketch of New Hampshire politics, one need only look at the license plates, emblazoned with the motto live free or die. In true libertarian fashion, New Hampshire imposes neither income nor sales tax on its residents. Not surprisingly, the G.O.P., protector of low taxes, small government and free enterprise, has dominated politics here for most of the century, and currently the Governor and the entire congressional delegation are Republican. But things are a little different this year: the Democrats have a shot at two of the three congressional seats up for election...
Abercrombie, who had a three-month stint in the House in 1986-87, believes in government as protector of the disadvantaged and the environment. He also takes issue with Republican welfare-reform proposals restricting benefits to legal immigrants, and wrote a bill to waive visas for some South Korean tourists, aiding Hawaii's biggest industry. In a tight race , his labor and minority support should serve him well...
Their disagreements regularly degenerate into warfare. As protector-in-chief over the past five years, the U.S. has exerted its diplomacy and spent at least $900 million to bring the Kurds together as an effective anti-Saddam force. But after every U.S.-brokered cease-fire, fighting resumed; 4,000 Kurds have died in such vicious brawls...