Search results for "head of state".

...neighborhood Alderman, is about to be red-lined out of his job. But after the untimely death of the party frontrunner, Gilliam is plucked from...limelight as his party's nominee--for President of the United States. The players in Gilliam's...

...For 30 days every winter, the isolated town of Barrow, Alaska is plunged into a state of complete darkness. It's a bitter time when most of the inhabitants head south. This winter, a mysterious group of...

A vicious cycle of poverty and illiteracy plagues...Mississippi Delta; the legacy of slavery, sharecropping and...grandmother LaLee Wallace, head of the African-American Wallace...district is on probation from the state because of its low performance...

The birth of the modern State of Israel, from a military standpoint and through the experiences of an American Jewish Colonel who is head of the fledgling state's armed forces for a brief period before his death in 1948.

...overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia...turned upside down as she becomes a hunted target of the killers. Placed under the protection of federal agent Tobin Keller, Silvia’s world...

After more than a decade of civil wars leading to more than 250,000 deaths and one million refugees, a group of women rose up to force peace on their shattered Liberia and propel to victory the first female head of state on the African continent.

A man searches for the killer of his brother Michael Francke, head of correction for the state of Oregon, who was stabbed to death in 1989 while investigating organized crime's involvement in the management of corrections facilities.

...and turns Icelandic society on its head. The revelations of the next few weeks are shocking: Young...systematically humiliated while in the care of the state. The small island nation faces hard...voices are finally heard after decades of silence.

...fierce tantrums and intimidation. This awful state of affairs comes to a head upon the arrival of Marie, a slightly odd-looking older woman...grotesque, so a blind employer relieves her of self-consciousness. Ruben has affection for...

The American embassy in Paris is in a state of heightened alert due to a wave of passport counterfeiting. The head of security deploys a young internal affairs officer to help stem the breach, but he...