Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the political opposition, was assassinated in 1983 at the Manila International Airport ( now the Ninoy Aquino International Airport ) upon returning home from exile.

Worse yet, Kronecker, a well-established figure within the mathematical community and Cantor's former professor, disagreed fundamentally with the thrust of Cantor's work.

The Reform Package debate has seen the return of key political figure and former Chief Secretary Anson Chan, raising speculations of a possible run up for the 2007 Chief Executive election, though she dismissed having a personal interest in standing for the next election.

" A leading figure within the CIA was Philby's wary former colleague, James Jesus Angleton, with whom he once again found himself working closely.

After negotiations, a " crisis-handling " government was formed, with the participation of the same parties, led by former PM Ivars Godmanis, a respectable public figure, and member of Latvian Way.

On January 24, 2002, Elie Hobeika, another former Lebanese Forces figure associated with the Sabra and Shatilla massacres who later served in three cabinets and the parliament, was assassinated in a car bombing in Beirut.

In his 2000 book, The Informant, Kurt Eichenwald, a former New York Times reporter, portrays Whitacre as a complex figure: while working for the FBI as one of the best and most effective undercover cooperating witnesses the U. S. government ever had, Whitacre was simultaneously committing a US $ 9 million white-collar crime.

Fine Gael, having gambled that former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald would run as its candidate ( even though he had insisted for two years that he would not run for office ) then approached another senior figure, Peter Barry, who had previously been willing to run but had run out of patience and was no longer interested.

Statue of Pribislav ( rightmost figure ) flanking that of Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg | Otto I ( center ) on the former Siegesallee ( 1898 )

Only two Ministers from the previous Cabinet were reappointed: Hussein Abdi Halane, the former Minister of Finance and a well-regarded figure in the international community, was put in charge of a consolidated Ministry of Finance and Treasury ; and Dr. Mohamud Abdi Ibrahim was reassigned to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

By the time of his fiftieth birthday in July 1898, Grace had developed a somewhat corpulent figure and had lost his former agility, which meant he was no longer a capable fielder.

* United States President Bill Clinton was a dominant political figure in international affairs during the 1990s known especially for his attempts to negotiate peace in the Middle East and end the ongoing wars occurring in the former Yugoslavia ; his promotion of international action to decrease human-created climate change ; and his endorsement of advancing free trade in the Americas.

* December 3 – Sourou Migan Apithy, Beninese political figure, former president of Dahomey ( b. 1913 )

Jacques Vergès ( born 5 March 1925 ) is a French-Vietnamese lawyer who has earned fame continually since the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist communist figure and then for defending a long string of well-known clients from anticolonialist Algerian militant Djamila Bouhired ( his future wife ) in 1957-1962 to former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan ( 2008 ).

Another major figure from the former Soviet Union, Andrey Kozyrev also concurred that the Soviet Union had been an " Evil Empire.

Vera Ellen Wang (, ; born June 27, 1949 ) is an American fashion designer based in New York City and former figure skater.

There are two naked male figures in the border below this figure ; the one directly below the figure is squatting and displaying prominent genitalia, a scene that was frequently censored in former reproductions.

In Tempest, Luke determines that the dark figure from his dreams is Lumiya, a former Emperor's Hand now known as the " Dark Lady of the Sith ".

Looking back, Nat Turner remains an " enigmatic and controversial figure ", according to former University of Massachusetts Amherst history professor Stephen B. Oates, given that Turner fought for the just anti-slavery cause but he proceeded in acts of violence against women and children that would today be considered as war crimes or terrorism.

Arkan became an untouchable criminal figure in Belgrade and all of the former Yugoslavia.

Steinbrenner, a Cleveland-area native, had hired former Indians star Al Rosen as his team president ( replacing another Cleveland figure, Gabe Paul ).

* Edward Jessup, a political figure in Upper Canada, a former British province in what is now Canada

With Petronius ' Satyricon, Lazarillo takes some of the traits of the central figure of Encolpius, a former gladiator, but it is unlikely that the author had access to Petronius ' work ; from the comedies of Plautus, it borrows from the figure of the parasite and the supple slave ; other traits are taken from Apuleius's The Golden Ass.

It is noteworthy that the majority of the delegates to the Congress were from the less developed, former colonial nations.

Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

The latter is not reduced to the former.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

Some even say that this is the reason for the ultimate acceptance of the former.

Analogously, anyone who argues that Einstein's theory of gravitation is simpler than Newton's, must say rather more to explain how it is that the latter is mastered by student-physicists, while the former can be managed ( with difficulty ) only by accomplished experts.

For here if anywhere in contemporary literature is a major effort to counterbalance Existentialism and restore some of its former lustre to the tarnished image of the species Man, or, as Malraux himself puts it, `` to make men conscious of the grandeur they ignore in themselves ''.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

The area available at Heywood is approximately three times the size of the former Rochdale and Manchester locations.

The essential difference between the new trans-illuminated boards and existing billboards is that the former, constructed of translucent plastic panels, are lighted from within.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

The latest and, significantly, greatest fruit of this theatrical vine is The, an adaptation of Basho's classic frog-haiku by Roger Entwhistle, a former University of Maryland chemistry instructor.

Data on the former are scanty, but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others, thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does, indeed, attain the greatest length.

For four of the six ( the anaconda and the amethystine python cannot be included for lack of data ) there is also a correlation between size at maturity and maximum length, the boa constrictor being the smallest and the Indian python the next in size at the former stage.

It is believed that drug therapy and electroshock involve the former and psychotherapy the latter mechanism.

A massive investigation of the characteristics of in-migrants and prospective out-migrants in Ruanda-Urundi is being carried on by J. J. Maquet, former Director of the Social Science branch of IRSAC, now a professor at l'Universite Officielle Du Congo Belge et Du Ruanda-Urundi.

The former is intended to decrease the amount of work necessary to extend dictionary coverage.

A recent case in point is Mitchell Canneries v. United States, in which a claim against the Government was transferred first from a corporation to a partnership, whose partners were former stockholders, and then to another corporation formed by the partners.

In virtually every case the transferor corporation is liquidated, and its former stockholders either own outright, or have a continuing stock interest in, the assets which gave rise to the tax.

No person shall be referred to a position the filling of which will aid directly or indirectly in filling a job which ( 1 ) is vacant because the former occupant is on strike or is being locked out in the course of a labor dispute, or ( 2 ) the filling of which is an issue in a labor dispute.