In August, Chile's Supreme Court had rejected General Pinochet's claim that he was immune from prosecution, both as a senator-for-life (a self-bestowed title) and under a 1980 amnesty law.
With that popularity comes opportunity -- and not only for Internet land barons like self-proclaimed Second Life millionaire Anshe Chung, but also virtual builders, landscapers and interior decorators, designers of avatar clothing and accessories, and even community moderators and governors.
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has veered from being one of the country's most powerful politicians in its post-independence history to living a quiet life of self-imposed exile in London and Dubai.
Their public life has a self-described conservative goal: to protect their vision of domestic life.
In August, fact will follow fiction with the arrival of the first real-life self-destructing recording medium.
It was a culture shock after his self-confessed "easy life" back home -- where he admits a love for the local alcohol kava resulted in him getting a gold tooth after coming off second best in a drunken fight.
Although the books and audiovisual resources give inmates a general opportunity in any case to direct their thoughts away from the prison environment, the main value of the prison library is in providing its users with the option of further education and self-reflection, obtaining life skills and improving their reading skills.
Warren, who founded Saddleback with his wife 33 years ago, gave the invocation at President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration and penned "The Purpose-Driven Life, " a Christian self-help guide that became a mainstream best-seller.
In America and in Britain, on both the hardback and paperback lists, non-fiction books with a life-affirming or self-improving message are holding their own against those with a downbeat one.
For Deacon, the answer has to lie in a closer look at self-organizing processes and how the origins of life and consciousness are rooted in the constraints that bind and shape these processes as they build from the simplest self-assembly of molecules up to the emergence of the first life forms.
First off, though he was certainly self-made, his early life story was hardly one marked by poverty.
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This is no laughing matter in most other walks of life where self-centeredness is an obstacle to communication.
He reveals, or even fortifies, the fact that self-parody has become the life-support system of international art infrastructures.
The advent of self-service stations will make life even harder.
By far the biggest long-term issue for anyone knocked down in life is the loss of self-esteem.
The National Adult Literacy course addresses a broad range of skills including reading and writing, basic numeracy, listening actively and responding appropriately, developing ICT skills and self-strategic learning, applying problem-solving techniques to real life situations, engaging in critical and consensual discussion, planning performance to attain goals and enhancing interpersonal skills to improve teamwork.
Acquiring literacy skills gives women a sense of self-confidence and control over their life and future.
Study after study shows that money, after getting above the line of self-sufficiency, does not improve life satisfaction.
"Mariah's Challenge stands for integrity, character and honesty and living a life of simple self-respect, " said McCarthy, 52.
Did they suffer through a few, self-imposed weeks of the quiet life and decide it wasn't for them?
The crisp and admirably self-deprecating vignettes of his own life, both emotional and professional, give his parents' story a fitting perspective.
After sitting derelict for years, an old folly in Guernsey will soon be given a new lease of life as a self-catering holiday home.
Her writing life was oddly self-contained, even if, by the end of the Potter series, she was receiving between one and two thousand pieces of mail a week.
The former Gurkha, who has a black belt in karate and taekwondo, served with Maidstone's 36 Engineers for 12 years and said his self-defence training undoubtedly saved his life.
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The family lives a life of rural self-sufficiency that makes the River Cottage look like a microprocessor plant, raising pigs, keeping bees and growing tomatoes, corn, figs, beans, apples, medlars and pears.
His skill at word-play, coupled with a self-destructive and fatalistic attitude to life (in a Russian intellectual, no less) lands him a job first as a copywriter, and then as something more sinister.
Our deepest desires for life precede significant self-knowledge.
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The single life is inherently self-interested: it calls for vigilance on matters of self-preservation both large (financial autonomy) and small (dish detergent), and, in many cases, it frees the solitary from the sorts of daily interaction that help craft a sense of shared responsibility.
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