"That is where a lot of my country influences started to come out, " she said in the online biography.

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The league cast John Stagikas, 32, to play RJ Brewer, an ultraconservative American patriot who, his online biography declares, "feels that good morals and strong family values are the key to a successful country".

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Yusuf founded Zaytuna Institute, which has "established an international reputation for presenting a classical picture of Islam in the West and which is dedicated to the revival of traditional study methods and the sciences of Islam, " according to his online biography.

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Hickenlooper appointed Clements as chief of the state's prison system in January 2011, according to Clements' online state biography.

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