However, if Mr Sadr gets himself arrested, he may be able to establish himself as a symbol of resistance to the new order, as his father was a symbol of resistance to the old.

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The baby was then taken into foster care, and at Northampton County Court she was freed for adoption after a judge ruled it was in her best interests to live with a new family as the father was likely to play too great a role in her upbringing.

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He later went to live with his father but returned to care as a result of conflict with his father's new partner and remained there as his father spent time in prison.

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Here, as a new film about the singer goes on general release, she explains that as a father he was surprisingly strict.

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Jim's first crisis came as his father lay in a New York hospital: CNA "was on the intensive care list, too, " he says.

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Wilde got his first shot at performing as a DJ at his father's restaurant outside Newark, New Jersey, nearly a decade ago, and he hasn't looked back since.

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The bulk of that came as a loan from her father, Jay Topkis, a semiretired partner at the New York firm of Paul, Weiss.

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He points to San Francisco's highly successful Embarcadero Center, designed and codeveloped by his father, as a possible model for a new World Trade Center.

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Others cite instances of bad grammar, a plea for money by the author to send 100, 000 (it doesn't say what), and the almost-chatty mention that he is the father of a new daughter named Nawwar, as out of character for al-Zawahiri.

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