in the world economic forum `s 2012Global gender Gap report ,which compares progress in 135 countries towards sex equality ,Saudi Arabia ranked 131st.
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59.then,either out of concern for national security, a desire to embarrass the president, or both, in clauses inserted into successive defence-spending bills congress made it difficult for officials to transfer anyone anywhere.
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58.Chechnya itself, the site of two wars and the historic homeland of the Tsarnaev family, has ,at least on the surface, been pacified under the eccentric and brutal rule of ramzan Kadyrov,the republic’s 36-year-old president
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57.Mr rose discharged himself from hospital to recount the details of this assault at a conference on hate speech on April 29th.
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56.on the subject of digital literature ,the author is amusingly contradictory-grateful to his editor and publisher, and yet disagreeable about a book about a spinal-cord injury that lacks a spine.
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55.additional police missteps also angered the public, including a decision to release Mr Janousek from custody, after brief questioning, when suspects in cases of intentional bodily harm are normally detained for 48 hours.
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