• But I've heard a lot about Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men, and a friend has pointed me towards Alan Moorehead's reportage there from World War Two.

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  • Suicide is the biggest killer of young men in some parts of the country.

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  • Police in Nepal say a group of Spanish hikers has been robbed by unidentified men in the west of the country.

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  • When Horace Greeley ran against Ulysses Grant in 1872, he was the first presidential candidate to travel the country in search of votes, and Grant men roundly mocked him for it.

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  • As we do, let us also reaffirm that their legacy will always burn bright -- whether in the memory of those who knew them, the spirit of service that guides our men and women in uniform today, or the heart of the country they kept strong and free.

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  • Winners were Abdul al-Latif al-Mayah, a Shiite Iraqi intellectual assassinated this year by the enemies of freedom in that country, and two other men still living to make the fight.

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  • And it contains a good selection of people with impeccable reformist credentials, while clearly dividing their functions from those of the siloviki, the men from military and intelligence backgrounds who run the ministries in charge of the country's order and security.

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  • The Indonesian police said DNA tests proved that the body of one of four men killed in a raid in central Java was that of Noordin Top, the country's most-wanted terrorist suspect, accused of involvement in the 2002 Bali bombing and many other attacks, including one on two hotels in Jakarta in July.

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  • But we can all remind ourselves that the richness of this country was not born in the resources of the earth, though they be plentiful, but in the men that took its measure.

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  • The ambitions of these two men, one the ruler of his country, the other a junior partner in a team of English soldier-adventurers, soon intersected.

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  • The other explanation is that the census itself is faulty, failing in particular to catch hundreds of thousands of young foreign men known to have entered the country in the past decade or so.

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  • More than 360, 000 men and women took part in Movember across the UK last year in a campaign aimed at raising awareness of the caner that affects one in nine men across the country.

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  • In the party's recent internal elections for the top posts in the 165 divisions around the country, Anwar's men tightened their hold, while many of the PM's top loyalists were ousted.

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  • We urge all concerned citizens to support our efforts to ease the financial burdens faced by the brave young men and women who have suffered severe wounds in the service of their country.

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  • Nowadays he's one of the wealthiest men in the country (No. 24 on our recent Thai 40 Richest list) and, since he took up polo eight years ago, has been found on the field playing with the likes of Prince Charles and top-ranked Adolfo Cambiaso.

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  • You know, even though you have plenty of celebrities who have used it - either white celebrities who have used it, who have been arrested for it - still the penalties time and time again, and the court systems across this country are weighed against particularly young black men who are caught in possession of the drug and selling it.

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  • " Sirota regards that as a gross disproportion "in a country where only 30 percent of the population is white men.

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  • "Let there be no doubt that anyone wishing to revisit harm upon this country will find, in the men and women of this department, adversaries who have found clarity of purpose in their grief, a strength of resolve in their anger, " Gates said.

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  • One of the men I admire most in the country, Professor Kader Asmal, a former cabinet minister, told me to remember that the country still had strong independent institutions and a vibrant civil society which could hold politicians to account.

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  • Data gathered between 1996 and 2006 by the University of Chicago's General Social Survey revealed that in the country's 12 largest cities, about 18% of married men and women had more than one partner, compared with 15% of respondents in the corresponding suburban areas.

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  • Together, you are fighting for the hardworking men and women in this country after nearly 10 years of struggle.

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  • And obviously we all defend our Constitution and the First Amendment and free speech, but we also believe that when men and women die in the service of their country and are laid to rest, it should be done with the utmost honor and respect.

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  • The oldest men's chorus in the country was once the darling of Manhattan society, but it now performs in relative obscurity.

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  • My family is proud of both of them and of all the fine men and women serving the country in uniform.

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  • We dedicate this award to the countless number of men and women who have served our country in silence throughout history and those who continue to protect our freedoms today.

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  • The region is number one worldwide in the devastating effects of smoking with this exception: In Sweden, the only EU country where snus is not banned, only 16 percent of men smoke.

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  • And at the same time, much more basically, we must deal with the need of rebuilding Haiti, thanks to an effective decentralization policy -- namely, offering health care, education, jobs to all Haitians, men and women, regardless of where they live in the country, in order to prevent migratory flows towards the big cities, towards Port-au-Prince, and that will help avoid that disaster such as the earthquake would cause so many victims.

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  • Prince Nayef said the five men would be tried in Saudi courts "as part of the country's rejection of all kinds of terrorism".

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  • So to all of you, and our men and women in uniform all across the country who may be watching this, I want to send a very clear message to all of you, particularly on this issue: No matter what you're going through, America will be there for you and your families.

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  • The country remains one of the few places in the world where women are drafted to fight alongside men in combat roles.

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