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"My brother is a self-exiled bettor who lost everything he had at the casinos," reads one recent letter to the commission.
States Rethink Gambling Limits Jack Nicas 2011
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A wild card is Hassan Meshaima, a self-exiled opposition leader—one of 25 put on trial last year for plotting against the regime.
Bahrain Says Will Release Political Prisoners Joe Parkinson 2011
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Actual Accomplishment: In the mid-1990s, when tribal tattoos and piercings were still considered edgy, she photographed a clique of self-exiled men and women pushing these boundaries as a form of gender-bending.
Mat Gleason: Ten Most Overrated Los Angeles Art World Stars 2010
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Expelled from several prep schools, the self-described "self-exiled son of a self-made man" moved to Europe, where he lived the life of a bohemian dandy on the easy flow of family money.
Ben Sonnenberg, founder of Grand Street literary magazine, dies at 73 2010
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Kyrgyzstan put its deposed president on trial, with prosecutors seeking a long prison term for the self-exiled Kurmanbek Bakiyev on charges of ordering troops to fire upon demonstrators, killing 78 people.
World Watch 2010
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Actual Accomplishment: In the mid-1990s, when tribal tattoos and piercings were still considered edgy, she photographed a clique of self-exiled men and women pushing these boundaries as a form of gender-bending.
Mat Gleason: Ten Most Overrated Los Angeles Art World Stars 2010
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Recreant and self-exiled, he had no right even to the habit he wore, except of charity to cover his nakedness.
A River So Long 2010
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In 2008, Washington sought to rescue Musharraf's foundering dictatorship by convincing the popular but still self-exiled Benazir Bhutto to front for him as democratic window-dressing for continued military rule.
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Kadeer, self-exiled in the United States of America, has been demanding independence for Uighurs in Xijiang.
Rebia accuses China of disappearing 10,000 Uighurs overnight 2009
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Kadeer, self-exiled in the United States of America, has been demanding independence for Uighurs in Xijiang.
Rebia accuses China of disappearing 10,000 Uighurs overnight 2009
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