Our team was composed of a white guy, a Latina, a black woman and a black man bound by a single commitment: to send kids to college.

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That appears to be what happened to a disruptive male passenger aboard a flight from Iceland to New York on Thursday after a photo surfaced on social media showing a man bound to his seat.

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Over the weekend, police said that the wheelchair-bound man was acting aggressively and had tried to stab an officer with a pen.

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No more office politics or artificial deadlines, and "you can't beat the commute, " says the man, who, bound by a confidentiality agreement, requested anonymity.

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The notion of a man's personal honor being bound up with his mustache appears to have survived into more recent times in some areas.

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Partners were often pulled in different directions by their careers, and American women, especially, were often disillusioned when the free-spirited man they had met at school became tradition-bound, subdued partners when they returned to their families, often in societies were women were expected to be more seen than heard.

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In many ways, the young man and his friend were a modern dating couple, yet still bound by caste and tradition.

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When asked if his son met with the man charged with trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane on Christmas day, al-Awlaki's father said it's not likely.

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So far, the prime minister's plans for streamlining the troubled finance ministry, not to mention deregulating Japan's hide-bound financial markets, have depended critically on having a strong man like Hiroshi Mitsuzuka as finance minister.

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Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit, Michigan, had a one-way ticket from Accra, Ghana, to Lagos, Nigeria, and a round-trip ticket for his trip from Lagos to the Netherlands and then to Detroit, according to the Nigerian Aviation Authority.

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On December 23, a 29 year old man was found in one of the neighborhoods up the hill from the beach in Acapulco with his hands and feet bound, killed by two gunshots.

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