When Westerners puzzle over why it's so hard for Israel to find moderate interlocutors among the Palestinians -- historically among the best educated, most entrepreneurial, and liberal of Arab societies -- a sad but simple part of the answer is that a great number of the Palestinian elites who might have filled that role were either killed or persuaded to leave long ago.
And Ibrahimovic revealed that Inter president Massimo Moratti had given him permission to leave several months ago should an offer from Barca arrive.
Benedict, who stunned the world's Catholics when he announced his resignation just over two weeks ago, will leave office at 8 p.m. local time Thursday.
Jobs took a leave of absence a few years ago after it was revealed he had pancreatic cancer.
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We had to leave our office a few weeks ago because there wasn't enough water to flush the toilets.
Was it really only a few years ago they wanted to leave the 6N and throw their lot in with the southern hemisphere to find some real competition?
Just two nights ago I had a leave a local ice cream shop because he would not stop screaming at me for not letting him put on his own toppings.
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And thanks to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- enacted 20 years ago this week -- I had a legal right to job-protected leave.
Several months ago, he took a leave of absence from his IT work in Texas to focus on working with the National Coalition's Assistance Coordination Unit.
Four days ago Britons were urged to leave Benghazi immediately.
Only months ago he emerged from a leave of absence to present at an Apple keynote event, and his passing comes with AAPL continuing to ascend to the dominant position in the consumer electronics market.
Refugee Hassan Cober said he was forced to leave his family and flee Sudan four years ago after many were killed and raped in his village.
Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon , visited France , seeking to mend fences after he caused upset a year ago by suggesting that Jews should leave France because of anti-Semitism.
Not long ago, the Clintonites thought they could leave Kosovo diplomacy to their European partners, who led the peace talks at Rambouillet.
Before she took leave to give birth to her daughter three months ago, she often worked until 8 or 9 p.m. and frequently had to travel out of state.
If it were announced tomorrow, rather than nearly three years ago, Hearst's decision to leave print for the greener fields of Silicon Valley would have been met with polite, understanding applause rather than raised eyebrows.
The biggest difference is that residents are starting to leave their homes, something unthinkable just a few months ago.
Four years ago, Zagallo took the controversial decision to leave an unfit Ronaldo on the field for 90 minutes in the World Cup final against France.
He is the personification of evil, the antichrist of Christian eschatology, the sort of monster who, 800 years ago, inspired 30, 000 kids to leave home and set sail to Jerusalem.
Rasool said his decision to leave his home in Hisarak district came nearly a month ago after a particularly blistering air assault killed five people in the neighboring village of Meya Saheeb.
But it must be easier to leave Facebook now than it was just a few months ago when the social network was the hottest, fastest growing, most exciting company on the planet.
Nevertheless, the itch returned last year, when, during an extended existentialist spin-out, the same family dog I had abandoned so many years ago dragged himself to my side and refused to leave.
Wozniak said that he had last seen Jobs three months ago, shortly after he temporarily came out of medical leave to unveil Apple's iCloud service.
The only solution, Roubini believes, is for countries like Greece to leave the Eurozone and engage in a real depreciation, ala Argentina, to restore productivity, as I reported a few months ago. (Read Greece Should Default, Leave The Eurozone, And Reinstate The Drachma).
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Discretion the better part of valor, I will leave to others the debate over who did what to whom a century ago.
Beyond that, I'm not going to get into specific detail because the President moments ago spoke about their meeting, and I'd rather leave it to him.
Days after the Penn State case came to light, Syracuse University in New York placed longtime assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine on administrative leave following allegations that he molested former ball boys more than 25 years ago.
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Apple is very restrictive, just like AOL. The opportunities to customize are limited, not much different from AOL It was not long ago that the general belief was that Apple users would not leave Apple.
"If you asked me two years ago, I would never believe that so many young people would leave Greece and go to London or Germany or other European countries, " he said.
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