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Kasinga and Fauziya
Nineteen-year-old Fauziya Kasinga, a member of the Tchamba-Kunsuntu tribe of Togo, was granted asylum in 1996 after leaving an arranged marriage to escape FGM, setting a precedent in U. S. immigration law because FGM was for the first time accepted as a form of persecution.
The Matter of Kasinga was a legal case decided in June 1996 involving Fauziya Kassindja ( surname also spelled as Kasinga ), a Togolese teenager seeking asylum in the United States in order to escape a tribal practice of female genital mutilation.

Kasinga and .
A possible third species may exist in Uganda, in the vicinity of the Kasinga Channel, linking Lake Edward with Lake George.
The narrative following the 12 – 13 December 1996 Nchelenge Council meeting defined the new Chienge as the area ‘ Starting from the mouth of Kefulwa River on the Lake Mweru, the boundary follows the Kefulwa river in a straight line up to the confluence of Kasinga stream.

Bashir and .
Just a brief note of appreciation to Vice President Johnson and Pakistani camel driver Bashir Ahmad for providing a first-class example of `` people to people '' good will.
The Shihab leadership continued until the middle of the 19th century and culminated in the illustrious governorship of Amir Bashir Shihab II ( 1788 – 1840 ) who, after Fakhr-al-Din, was the most powerful feudal lord Lebanon produced.
Though governor of the Druze Mountain, Bashir was a crypto-Christian, and it was he whose aid Napoleon solicited in 1799 during his campaign against Syria.
The current Governor is Professor Marie Bashir, who has served since 1 March 2001 ; Labor Premier Bob Carr recommended her to replace former Justice Gordon Samuels.
Bashir had her term extended in October 2004 to February 2008, again extended in October 2007 for a further five years to 2012, and further extended in September 2011 to February 2014.
The first woman to hold this position is also the first Lebanese-Australian governor, Marie Bashir.
In October 2011, the new Premier Barry O ' Farrell announced that the Governor, now Marie Bashir, had agreed with O ' Farrell's offer to move back into Government House: " A lot of people believe the Governor should live at Government House.
The most prominent among them was Bashir Shihab II, who was much like his predecessor, Fakhr ad Din II.
Both Napoleon and Al Jazzar, the governor of Acre, requested assistance from the Shihab leader ; Bashir, however, remained neutral, declining to assist either combatant.
In 1788 Bashir Shihab II ( sometimes spelled Bachir in French sources ) would rise to become the Emir.
He would reform taxes and attempt to break the feudal system, in order to undercut rivals, the most important of which was also named Bashir: Bashir Jumblatt, whose wealth and feudal backers equaled or exceeded Bashir II – and who had increasing support in the Druze community.
Jumblatt represented the increasingly disaffected Druze, who were both shut out from official power and angered at the growing ties with the Maronites by Bashir II, who was himself a Maronite Christian.
Bashir II was overthrown as wali when he backed Acre, and fled to Egypt, later to return and organize an army.
Jumblatt gathered the Druze factions together, and the war became sectarian in character: the Maronites backing Bashir II, the Druze backing Bashir Jumblatt.
In 1825 Bashir II defeated his rival and killed him after the battle of al Simqaniya.
Bashir II was not a forgiving man and repressed the Druze, particularly in and around Beirut.
Bashir II, who had come to power through local politics and nearly fallen from power because of his increasing detachment from them, reached out for allies, allies who looked on the entire area as “ the Orient ” and who could provide trade, weapons and money, without requiring fealty and without, it seemed, being drawn into endless internal squabbles.
The discontent grew to open rebellion, fed by both Ottoman and British money and support: Bashir II fled, the Ottoman empire reasserted control and Mehmed Hüsrev Pasha, whose sole term as Grand Vizier ran from 1839 to 1841, appointed another member of the Shihab family, who styled himself Bashir III.
Bashir III, coming on the heels of a man who by guile, force and diplomacy had dominated Mt Lebanon and the Biqa for 52 years, did not last long.
The Druze had grown increasingly resentful of the favoring of the Maronites by Bashir II, and were backed by the Ottoman Empire and the wali of Damascus in an attempt to gain greater control over Lebanon ; the Maronites were backed by the French, out of both economic and political expediency.

Layli and .
Layli Miller-Muro founded the Tahirih Justice Center in 1997 following a well-publicized asylum case in which she was involved as a student attorney dealing with Female genital mutilation.
* Phillips, Layli.

Miller and .
The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.
He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.
Clyde Miller was crying softly to himself, shedding his striped suit and fumbling into the nondescript butternut pants, the worn brown shirt.
They went to the pawnshop of Joseph Miller of 1162 Sixth Avenue.
`` Mr. Miller was in the shop '', the Herald Tribune story related, `` but was reluctant to have anybody's picture taken inside, because his business was too ' confidential ' for pictures.
Henry Miller characterized Patchen as a `` man of anger and light ''.
Morning sessions included addresses by Ward Miller, Jr. of the U. S. Dept. of Commerce.
The opposition to this point of view has its staunchest support in the work of Miller ( '50 ).
Apparently, however, Miller has relied heavily on the anatomy in dogs and cats, and he has been criticized for using pathologic human material in his normal study ( Loosli, '38 ).
Miller ( '50 ) is the principal antagonist of this viewpoint.
They were disturbed by his idiotic bravado -- as, when his bodyguard, Yankee Schwartz, complained that he had been snubbed by Dave Miller, a prize-fight referee, chieftain of a Jewish gang and one of four brothers of tough reputation, who were Hirschey, a gambler-politician in loose beer-running league with Torrio and O'Banion, Frank, a policeman, and Max, the youngest.
To settle this slight, O'Banion went down to the La Salle Theatre in the Loop, where, he had learned, Dave Miller was attending the opening of a musical comedy.
The greatest team of this period was unquestionably the New York Yankees, bought by brewery millions and made into a ball club by men named Ed Barrow and Miller Huggins.
-- After a long, hot controversy, Miller County has a new school superintendent, elected, as a policeman put it, in the `` coolest election I ever saw in this county ''.
The new school superintendent is Harry Davis, a veteran agriculture teacher, who defeated Felix Bush, a school principal and chairman of the Miller County Democratic Executive Committee.
`` Science In Action '', San Francisco's venerable television program, will be seen in Hong Kong this fall in four languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Chiuchow and English, according to a tip from Dr. Robert C. Miller.
Even Mr. Miller himself seems uncertain on this score.
To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.
According to Roy Andrew Miller ( 1996: 98-99 ), the Clauson – Doerfer critique of Altaic relies exclusively on lexicon, whereas the fundamental evidence for Altaic consists in verbal morphology.
It is followed by the Nihon shoki, completed in 720, and that by the Man ' yōshū, which dates from c. 771-785, but includes material that is about 400 years earlier ( Miller 1971: 4 ).
* 1923 – Ann Miller, American actor and dancer ( d. 2004 )
* 1908 – Frank Robert Miller, Canadian airman and politician ( d. 1997 )
* 1912 – Richard C. Miller, American photographer ( d. 2010 )
Still captained by Bradman and now featuring the potent new ball partnership of Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller, Australia were convincing 3 – 0 winners.

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