Following this brush with death, I fled Iraq.

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"In gratitude to the city and county of Los Angeles, which provided me a home when I fled the Nazis, and whose courts enabled me to recover my family's paintings at long last, I am very pleased that these wonderful paintings will be seen at LACMA, " said Ms Altmann.

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If it hadn't been for the fact that Mom was trying to sleep I would have fled.

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When people hear how I quit my job as a lawyer after six years of corporate work, they assume I burned out and fled the nine-to-five (or, more accurately, the nine-to-midnight), leaving contracts, negotiations and lawsuits behind.

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Even those like a former prime minister, Nguza Karl I Bond, who had fled into exile where he denounced Mr Mobutu, could be bought off, brought back and reinstated.

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The French genius was in a hurry, and not too eager to talk, but before he fled down the hall, I got a good quote from him.

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Has she talked to any of those who have fled the Polisario camps, as I have?

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"Just a couple of days ago, I was in a camp called Gourounkoun, and I was speaking to a grandmother who had fled with several of her children and grandchildren, " Bennett said.

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We left the main restaurant area and fled as fast as we could to the safest area I could think of.

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