U.S. and French defense officials believe at least one of those marriages gave Mr. Belmokhtar the social position he needed to charge safe-passage fees to cocaine cartels that move across the Sahara.

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"His character proves he is a good person and put in charge of trying to keep homes safe, " one of his supporters said in a handwritten letter.

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And, everything else being equal (as they say), that means they would feel obliged to charge their customers rather more for loans and for keeping money safe (cough).

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Among other things, the state has countered that it didn't make sense that Mr. Pistorius would charge at a closed bathroom door before checking whether his girlfriend was safe.

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Among other things, the state has contended that it didn't make sense that Mr. Pistorius would charge at a closed bathroom door before checking whether his girlfriend was safe.

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The TSA exists to send a signal about who is in charge, and it is to present the illusion that the government is doing something to keep us safe.

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Safe enough to go into the human body, the hydrogel prevents biofilms from growing and, thanks to its positive charge, attracts negatively charged microorganisms, which it then pops like water balloons.

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