Vakatora's calls were immediately rejected by Opposition Leader Mahendra Chaudhry, who said that Indo-Fijians were already underrepresented, claiming that they had given up two seats in the constitutional revision of 1997 in order to make way for the minority groups.

In his autobiography, From Jerusalem to Munich, first published in France in 1999, and later in a written interview with Sports Illustrated, Abu Daoud wrote that funds for Munich were provided by Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the PLO since 11 November 2004 and President of the Palestinian National Authority since 15 January 2005.

In addition to his contributions in education, Washington wrote 14 books ; his autobiography, Up From Slavery, first published in 1901, is still widely read today.

His autobiography, Up From Slavery, first published in 1901, is still widely read today.

In his autobiography Up From Slavery, he gave all three of his wives credit for their contributions at Tuskegee.

When Washington's autobiography, Up From Slavery, was published in 1901, it became a bestseller and had a major impact on the African American community, its friends and allies.

Shy by his own admission, Kelley was the only cast member of the original Star Trek series program never to have written or published an autobiography ; however, the authorized biography From Sawdust to Stardust ( 2005 ) was written posthumously by Terry Lee Rioux of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.

In addition to Vadim's theater and film work, he also wrote several books, including his autobiography, D ' une étoile à l ' autre ( From One Star to the Next ).

* Country musician Eddy Arnold, a native of Henderson, titled his 1969 autobiography It's A Long Way From Chester County.

From 1945 to 1947, Bundy co-authored recently retired United States Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson's third-person autobiography, On Active Service in Peace and War, which was published in 1947.

From his wife's autobiography it seems his mental illness took the form of a bipolar disorder, with the depressive phases being of moderate to severe intensity.

Knight sued for breach of contract, which resulted in a protracted legal battle and the band dropping the word " Railroad " from their name ( in his 2001 autobiography, " From Grand Funk to Grace ", Farner stated that the shortening of the band's name was done after most of their fans began to refer to them as Grand Funk ).

" In 1995, Richard Blackwell published his autobiography From Rags to Bitches, where he declared he was a lover of both Grant and Scott.

" From then on ", as he wrote in his autobiography, " most Rickenbachers were practically forced to spell their name in the way I had ..."

'" In his autobiography, From Pieces to Weight: Once upon a Time in Southside Queens, he wrote, " After I got shot nine times at close range and didn't die, I started to think that I must have a purpose in life ... How much more damage could that shell have done?

He always remembered the words of his mother and cited her in his autobiography, From Immigrant to Inventor ( 1925 ):

In 1913 he published his autobiography, From Studio to Stage.

In his 1998 autobiography, Crazy From the Heat, Roth characterized Van Halen's music just before his 1985 departure as " morose ".

The ex-Royal Kumari Rashmila Shakya states in her autobiography From Goddess to Mortal ( 2005 ) that this has nothing to do with the selection process, but rather is a ritual the Royal Kumari goes through each year, and that there are no men dancing around in masks trying to scare her, and that at most there are only a dozen or so decapitated animal heads in the scary room test.

Her autobiography, From Under My Hat ( Doubleday, 1952 ) was followed by The Whole Truth and Nothing But ( 1962 ), also published by Doubleday.

Barnes had a long and active retirement, continuing to support the International Labour Organization, serving as chairman of the Co-operative Printing Society, and publishing several books, including his autobiography, From Workshop to War Cabinet ( 1923 ), and a History of the International Labour Office ( 1926 ).

He is the author of three volumes of autobiography: From Militancy to Marxism, Inside Cowley and Militant Years.

From here, she continued to produce artworks in a variety of mediums, as well as launching a literary career by publishing several novels, a poetry collection and an autobiography.

From Vyvyan ’ s accounts in his autobiography, Son of Oscar Wilde, Oscar was a devoted and loving father to his two sons and their childhood was a relatively happy one.

This illustration was from the cover of Stine's autobiography, It Came From Ohio!

From his autobiography ( Homans 1984 ), it is learned that Homans entered Harvard College in 1928 with an area of concentration in English and American literature.

In his autobiography, mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota tells of casually browsing the mathematical stacks of Sterling Library and stumbling on a handwritten mailing list, attached to some of Gibbs's course notes, which listed over two hundred notable scientists of his day, including Poincaré, Hilbert, Boltzmann, and Mach.

Dodds, in his autobiography The Baby Dodds Story, tells the story of making his first drum:

* Thomas Merton, in his autobiography Seven Story Mountain, tells of living in Ealing for a time with his Aunt and Uncle.

In Chuck Berry's autobiography, Berry tells of how he declared there would be no drinking in the car, while on the road.

In his autobiography, How You Play the Game, Colangelo tells of working after graduating college at the House of Charles, a tuxedo rental shop in Chicago Heights.

As he tells the story in his autobiography, although various spiritual leaders had urged him at various points in his life to strike out on his own path, it was not until near the end of his years that he felt fully confident to assume the mantle of the teacher.

In her 1938 fictionalized autobiography " We Lived as Children ," San Francisco native Kathryn Hulme captured this difference, as her persona tells of watching San Francisco burn after the tragic 1906 earthquake.

His 1996 autobiography, Half Luck and Half Brains, tells the story of Holiday Inn.

While living there she more or less takes charge of Karabekian's life and tells him to start writing an autobiography, which he does.

Enid Bagnold, in her autobiography, tells of unwittingly smuggling silver across the English Channel for him after the war.

In The Woman Within ( 1954 ), an autobiography written for posthumous publication, Glasgow tells of a long, secret affair with a married man she had met in New York, whom she called " Gerald B.

In his autobiography, called Dual Allegiance, Dunkelman tells the story of how, between July 8 and 18, 1948 during Operation Dekel, he led the 7th Brigade and its supporting units as it moved to capture the town of Nazareth.

Julie Newmar, Vida Boheme ( Patrick Swayze ) gives a copy of Vreeland's autobiography to a thrift-store clerk and tells him to " commit sections to memory.

The Manuscript is Everhard's autobiography as she tells of: her privileged childhood as the daughter of an accomplished scientist ; her marriage to the socialist revolutionary Ernest Everhard ; the fall of the US republic ; and her years in the underground resistance from the First Revolt through the years leading to the Second Revolt.

Nat Love's autobiography tells of many adventures fighting against cattle rustlers and inclement weather.

* Mao's Last Dancer ( film ) ( 2009 )-Based on the autobiography of Chinese dancer Li Cunxin, this movie tells the story of his selection from an impoverished rural village to train at Madame Mao's Beijing Dance Academy.

Her autobiography tells not only about raising Nancy, whom she had at twenty and also describes Nancy as disturbed from a young age, but also her life following Nancy's murder in regard to her and her family's treatment by the judicial system and the press.

In 2008, Andy Taylor published an autobiography, Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran, in which he tells his life's story from youth in an extended family to his life with wife Tracey.

Other than what he tells us in his autobiography, namely that he worked as a portrait-painter, glass-painter and land-surveyor, we have little record of how he lived during the first years of his married life.

He often commented on the literary life: the first edition of his autobiography came out with the title A Mug's Game, a quotation from T. S. Eliot, whom Hamburger greatly admired, and to whose sixtieth-birthday biblio-symposium he contributed an eponymous poem of four stanzas which tells its own story.

The film Brian's Song, loosely based on Gale Sayers ' autobiography, tells the story of the friendship between Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and their time during football with the Chicago Bears up until Brian Piccolo's death.

Written as a fictional autobiography, this novel tells the story of middle-aged protagonist Thomas MacMillan, who, in his struggle to understand himself and his origins, reflects on the relative isolation of his early life with his unconventional Trinidadian grandmother.

Etheridge tells both in her autobiography and during the interview on the bonus DVD of her greatest hits album that Come to My Window is of all songs she has written the one that surprises her the most and that she almost did not put it on the album.

Kriyānanda tells these stories in his autobiography, The New Path.

As a coming-of-age autobiography, the book tells the story of Thompson's childhood in an Evangelical Christian family, his first love, and his early adulthood.