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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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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