But as NPR's Mara Liasson reports, there is still a long way to go.
Mara Vanderslice is the Deputy Director at The White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
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The Masai Mara has previously been named the seventh new wonder of the world.
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Fellow Ethiopian Berhane Adere won a tough women's race, with British runner Mara Yamauchi fifth.
Little known actress Rooney Mara will tackle the juicy role of punk hacker Lisbeth Salander.
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The two have a teen-age daughter Jessica, played by Kate Mara, whom Kay fearlessly protects.
We talked a little bit about stars Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum's box office history yesterday.
According to Oscar, the marero in San Salvador, the mara is like a family.
While the exact route changes every year, the herds will inevitably have to cross the Mara and Talek rivers.
The group also runs the Mara Foundation, a non-profit arm focused on fostering entrepreneurship among young Africans.
O'Mara said Zimmerman, who will plead not guilty, is worried about getting a fair trial in Sanford.
The challenge, as Mara pointed out, is finding the right language to institute that kind of rule.
Ratu Mara died in 2004, but his family played a critical role in backing the 2006 coup.
George Zimmerman's lead attorney Mark O'Mara presented a motion to have the trial pushed back to November.
But Ratu Mara's influence remains strong, and members of his family hold positions in the new government.
Mara Vanderslice serves as the Deputy Director of The White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Many Americans have encountered a U.S.-based offshoot of the FMLN known as the Mara Salvatrucha gang, or MS-13.
Addressing reporters after last week's ruling, O'Mara expressed hope that his client's detention once again would be short-lived.
Obviously, again, Mara, those meetings are ongoing in identifying and looking at a whole host of those ideas.
But he initially did not pick Mara out of a photo lineup of six men, the affidavit says.
Mara's lawyer, William Dow III, said Mara will plead not guilty and he's confident a jury will agree.
But the two-time champion displayed real quality in closing out the set, and now faces Italy's Mara Santangelo.
"I'm very happy for Bill, " Bill Mara, the Giants' president and chief executive officer, said in a statement.
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Though the account has been closed, O'Mara said he intends to open a legal defense fund for Zimmerman.
O'Mara replaces Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig, the two lawyers who had been giving legal advice to Zimmerman.
We reached the mountains of Jebel Mara, the ancient home of the African Fur Tribe that lends its name to Darfur.
One of the authors, Mara Cameran of Bocconi University, found that mandatory rotation tends to worsen audit quality.
As NPR's Mara Liasson reports, the White House had been working to change political perceptions in the black community.
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