Word: refugee
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Two hundred years of American history have demonstrated how flexible the Constitution is, but Philip Morris is stretching it way out of shape. There is nothing even remotely Constitutional about killing your fellow citizens. If euthnasia (killing people in accordance with their wishes) is a slippery judicial question, then the...
Early this year, Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega was forced to take refuge in the Vatican Embassy when the heat was on.
Some delinquent borrowers have tried to seek refuge behind Texas' homestead law, which shelters a debtor's home from hungry creditors. But Pankau nailed one scamp after he used proceeds from a commercial loan to hide $1 million in a River Oaks mansion. "If it's out there, we're...
The fact that activists have survived not only in Beijing but also in the countryside testifies to continuing public support for the officially proscribed protesters of Tiananmen Square. Zhai's own survival depended on the kindness of strangers. From the square he fled to an agricultural cooperative outside Beijing. "The...
The end for Haiti's most recent strongman was reminiscent of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier's ignominious departure in 1986. On the morning of his 53rd birthday, after seven days of protests and a general strike, Lieut. General Prosper Avril and his family were driven to the airport on...