Both were members of the bureau's elite hostage rescue team, a group known most recently for rescuing an Alabama boy from a kidnapper in an underground bunker.

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Both men belonged to the army's Special Services Group, an elite force that Musharraf once commanded.

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There's always somebody, usually an elite group grabbing rents, that loses.

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AACSB-accredited schools comprise about 5% of all business programs world-wide, and nearly all elite institutions in the U.S., according to the group's own estimate.

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While it is not clear at this writing whether he will prevail in the upcoming run-off, Humala's inflammatory rhetoric (threatening the country's political elite and its constitutional democracy, admiring the violent terrorist group known as the Shining Path and signaling a willingness to go to war with neighboring Chile ) represents a frightening prospect for Peru , the region and U.S. interests.

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Ecclestone, head of the Formula One Management group responsible for running the elite division of motorsport, said that Bahrain's political problems were a separate issue.

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Columbia negotiated the deal with a group of 33 elite writers, including Ron Bass (My Best Friend's Wedding, Stepmom) and Nicholas Kazan (Reversal of Fortune).

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George Soros's Open Society programme offers one modest solution: it tops up the pay of a small group of elite public-sector workers who have returned to countries in Central and Eastern Europe after being educated abroad.

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