Libyan Eman al-Obeidy has not been identified as a woman of courage, even though -- or perhaps because -- on March 26, 2011, she sought out the international media at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli to denounce the 15 Moammar Gadhafi thugs who gang-raped her, beat her and pushed a Kalashnikov into her rectum.

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For those who want a sample of that sympathy, another Orman opus, The Courage to Be Rich, should be in bookstores in March.

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But the incident gave Angola's other, more reticent, opposition groups the courage to organise the first and only real anti-government march in the country's 25 years of independence.

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