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Bishop Emeritus P<mask> was the fifth Bishop-in-Karimnagar Diocese of the Church of South India. from 2007 through 2014 and occupied the Cathedra in Karimnagar's Wesley Cathedral. He retired on account of superannuation in 2014 following which the Church of South India Synod headquartered in Chennai appointed a successor to him in 2015. After discerning his avocation towards priesthood, <mask> entered the portals of a Protestant Seminary in 1972 in Bangalore where he studied spirituality leading to the award of the graduate degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1976 after which he began pastoring parishes within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Diocese of Medak, Church of South India. In 1980, <mask> went on to major in Greek and New Testament and became a member of the Society for Biblical Studies, India in which his Professor, J. G. F. Collison was already a distinguished member. Again from 1982, <mask> continued to pastor parishes of the Diocese of Medak until <mask>r sent him for doctoral studies in 1987 to the Kirchliche Hochschule, Bethel, Bielefeld, Germany where researched on Homiletics specializing in indigenous movements and Churches in India, especially the work of Sadhu Sundar Singh. Roger E. Hedlund, the Missiologist with major contribution to indigenous Christianity in India terms <mask> as a leading authority on Sadhu Sundar Singh.From 1991 onwards, <mask> <mask> spent nearly a decade teaching Homiletics at the United Theological College, Bangalore, an autonomous College affiliated to the Senate of Serampore College (University) until 2000 when he went to Stuttgart as India Liaison Secretary of the EMS succeeding Luise <mask> who bridged the gap after C. L. Furtado. After a distinguished record at Stuttgart, <mask> <mask> returned to India in 2005 donning the role of a Presbyter at the Diocese of Medak until his elevation to the Bishopric in 2007 in the adjoining Diocese of Karimnagar to succeed the Old Testament Scholar and Bishop S. J. Theodore who retired on attaining superannuation. <mask> <mask> contributed as an academician and as an administrator to the Church taking into consideration not only the mainline Churches but the small and indigenous Churches in India as well. In 2006, India's first University (a University under Section 2 (f) of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956)with degree-granting authority validated by a Danish Charter and ratified by the Government of West Bengal elected <mask> <mask> as a Member of its Council  in which <mask> <mask> continues to contribute to theological education and research. In 2010, the Henry Martyn Institute, Hyderabad an Institute with inter-faith concerns with focus on Islam partnered by the Canadian Baptist Ministries elected <mask> <mask> as its Chairperson where he provides leadership in an inter-religious setting. Early years and studies
<mask> <mask> was born in Dudgaon in Nizamabad District in undivided Andhra Pradesh, India to Smt. Guyyani Sundaramma and Sri <mask> <mask>am who realised the need for education and sent him to the CSI-Wesley Boys High School, Secunderabad from where he completed schooling and pre-university studies in 1968 and continued higher studies at the State-run Nizam College of the Osmania University where he earned a graduate degree leading to Bachelor of Arts in English in 1972.Spirituality and Seminary studies
During the incumbency of Bishop H. D. L. Abraham, then Bishop – in – Medak (1968–1975), <mask> <mask> evinced interest in pursuing a priestly vocation and was sent to the United Theological College, Bengaluru in 1972, then headed by the eminent theologian Joshua Russell Chandran, where <mask> <mask> completed the graduate degree of Bachelor of Divinity (B. D.) in 1976 during the Registrarship of D. S. Satyaranjan at Bengaluru. Incidentally, Christopher Asir and J. W. Gladstone who also led the Bishopric of the Church of South India in other dioceses also happened to pursue theology at the same College during that period. Ordination & Pastorship
Soon after <mask> <mask>'s return to his Diocese, he was assigned a Deacon's role in Parishes of the Diocese of Medak and assigned to Varni near Nizamabad and was ordained by then Bishop – in – Medak, B. G<mask> Rao (1976–1981) as a Presbyter on 31 July 1977 in the Medak Cathedral in Medak after which he was made Presbyter – in – Charge in Adilabad. Post-graduate studies
The Diocese of Medak sent <mask> <mask> to pursue further studies in theology and was sent again to the United Theological College, Bengaluru where he enrolled for the post-graduate degree of Master of Theology (M. Th.) in the discipline of New Testament in 1980 studying under J. G. F. Collison and K. James Carl then Professors of New Testament who stipulated a tough regimen of study which <mask> <mask> stuck to and worked out a dissertation entitled Theological motives in Mark - a redactional critical study. This was during the time that the Old Testament Scholar G. Babu Rao began doctoral studies in Bengaluru.<mask>'s classmates included <mask> Kumari Samuel of the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church. <mask> <mask> also went to Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts and had an exposure at the Boston University School of Theology where he was also Student Chaplain at the United Methodist Church of All Nations  By the year 1982, <mask> <mask> was awarded an M. Th. in New Testament by the Senate of Serampore College. <mask> was then reassigned a ministerial role in the Diocese of Medak as Presbyter – in – Charge in Bellampalli. Research

In the year 1987, during the Bishopric of the Old Testament Scholar the Right Reverend <mask>r (1982–1992), <mask> <mask> was sent for higher studies to Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany where he pursued a doctoral degree (Dr. Theol.) in Homiletics under the India-born Traugott Stählin at the Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel.submitting a dissertation entitled "The Preaching of Sadhu Sundar Singh: A Homiletic Analysis of Independent Preaching and Personal Christianity" which was later published in 1991. Ecclesiastical contribution

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The United Theological College, Bengaluru, then under the Principalship of the Old Testament Scholar E. C. John invited <mask> <mask> to serve on its faculty where he began teaching Practical Theology from 1991–2000. Apart from his teaching, <mask> continued to don the priestly mantle. He was Associate Presbyter at St. Peter's Telugu Church, Mission Road and at St. Mark's Cathedral, Bangalore Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bangalore. In 1993 during the Principalship of the Old Testament Scholar Gnana <mask> was sent to Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey for a course in Speech Communication in Ministry and Worship
During the academic year 1997 – 1998, the Professor went on a sabbatical as Visiting Professor to San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo and thereafter to Germany to the historical Mission Seminary in Hermannsburg. He also taught at his alma mater Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel, Bielefeld before returning to Bengaluru. Administratorship

Evangelisches Missionswerk in Südwestdeutschland (EMS)
While teaching at the Seminary in Bengaluru, the Evangelisches Missionswerk in Südwestdeutschland (EMS) – (Association of Churches and Missions in South Western Germany), Stuttgart invited <mask> <mask> to be its Liaison Secretary for India in 2000.The then Principal of the Seminary, O. V. Jathanna relieved him while the Diocese of Medak under B. P. Sugandhar (1993–2008) loaned the services of <mask> <mask> to the EMS, Stuttgart. <mask> <mask> began monitoring partnership between the EMS and the Church of South India. He was also made the Deputy General Secretary of the EMS in 2002. While at Stuttgart, <mask> <mask> was also on the Chaplaincy of St. Catherine's Church. With the end of the term of <mask> <mask> at the EMS, he returned to Medak Diocese in 2005 and was made Presbyter-in-Charge of Church of St. John the Baptist, Secunderabad. Bishopric
The Diocese of Karimnagar had seen four Bishop's since its erection post 1950. Bishops B<mask>, G. B. Devasahayam, K. E. Swamidass and Sanki John Theodore provided stable leadership.John Theodore, the predecessor of <mask> <mask> vacated the Cathedra on account of attaining superannuation resulting in sede vacante. The Church of South India Synod announced fresh elections to be conducted following which <mask> <mask> hailing from the Diocese of Medak contested and declared elected. Then Moderator of the Church of South India, B. P. Sugandhar principally consecrated <mask> <mask> as Bishop – in – Karimnagar on 26 March 2007 at the CSI-Wesley Cathedral, Karimnagar. After leading the Diocese for nearly eight years, <mask> <mask> retired on attaining superannuation in 2014. The sede vacante was filled in by the Church of South India Synod which appointed K. Reuben Mark in 2015 to succeed him. Lambeth Conference
The Church of South India (CSI)is an autonomous body in the Anglican Communion headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth. Bishops of the CSI also participate in the decennial Lambeth Conference.Bishop <mask> <mask> attended the fourteenth Lambeth Conference held at the University of Kent, Kent from 16 July – 3 August 2008. Writings

Articles
1991, Sermon Preparation: Biblical Preaching, Methodological Issues and Perspectives,
1994, Mission of the Church in a Pluralistic Society,
1995, Homiletics and Preaching in India,
1997, Liturgy and Worship of the Church of South India,
2001, Towards Understanding "Ecumenism" as Mission of the Church,
2004, Sadhu Sundar Singh's Contribution,<ref>P<mask> <mask>, Sadhu Sundar Singh's Contribution in Roger E. Hedlund (Edited), Christianity is Indian: The Emergence of an Indigenous Community, Revised edition, ISPCK, New Delhi, 2004, pp.113-128.</ref>
2005, The Episcopacy in the Church of South India: A Reflection by a CSI Presbyter: My Vision of Episcopacy in the CSI,<ref>P<mask> <mask>, The Episcopacy in the Church of South India: A Reflection by a CSI Presbyter: My Vision of Episcopacy in the CSI in Gideon Shobhanam, Vinod Victor (Edited), Shepherd of a Pilgrim People, ISPCK, New Delhi, 2005, pp. 55-70.</ref>
2005, Church in India: Is it a visible sign of the invisible grace of God?,
2009, Spirit of Lent, in Mount of Olives, our Lenten journey with Jesus,

Books

Books written
1991, The Preaching of Sadhu Sundar Singh: A Homiletic Analysis of Independent Preaching and Personal Christianity,

Books edited
1997, Unite-liberate-celebrate: A Guide for the Study of the Theme,
2001, (with Vinod Victor and Leslie Nathaniel), Ecumenism: Prospects and Challenges,

Leadership

Academic institutions

Senate of Serampore College (University)
From 2006 onwards Surya Prakash began serving as a Council member of India's first University striving for providing sound spiritual formation to the Priests of the Church in India. Andhra Christian Theological College
Formed in 1964, the Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad is a special purpose entity with major partners including the Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists and the Church of South India in which Surya Prakash represented the Diocese of Karimnagar and was ex-officio'' member of the Board of Governors of the College which elected him as the Chairperson of the Board for a 3-year term, 2009-2011. United Theological College, Bangalore
In 2009, the United Theological College, Bangalore, an autonomous College affiliated to the Senate of Serampore College (University) elected Surya Prakash as its President where he provided leadership to the College with high academic credentials.Inter-faith institution

Henry Martyn Institute
Henry Martyn Institute, Hyderabad managed by the Canadian Baptist Ministries which also has concerns at the Andhra Christian Theological College as well as along the sea coast along the Bay of Bengal through the Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars elected <mask> <mask> as its Chairperson of its Council in 2010 where <mask> <mask> continues in that role. Child-centric institution

India Sunday School Union
In 2002, the Coonoor based India Sunday School Union elected <mask> <mask> as its President for the term 2002-2011. Social research institution

Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society
The CISRS, Bangalore is a social research institution which elected <mask> <mask> as its President for the term 2007-2011. References

Further reading

People from Nizamabad, Telangana
Telugu people
21st-century Anglican bishops in India
Anglican bishops of Karimnagar
Osmania University alumni
Indian Christian theologians
Senate of Serampore College (University) alumni
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1949 births
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<mask>. (; born August 16, 1966) is a former center in the National Hockey League for 16 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Winnipeg Jets, New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings, and Pittsburgh Penguins. He won the Stanley Cup with the Rangers in 1994. <mask> was also the head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins from June 2003 to December 2005. He served as a television color commentator for NHL on NBC until its end in 2021 and currently commentates on TNT and Chicago Blackhawks games on NBC Sports Chicago. He also currently serves as the Horse Racing Handicapper and Analyst for NBC's Horse Racing Coverage. Throughout his career as an NHL player, he played 1,031 NHL games and produced 342 goals and 452 assists for a total of 794 points. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame on February 22, 2013.<mask> is tied with Phil Kessel for the second-longest point streak by an American-born player in NHL history, at 18 games, having set the original mark in 1989–90, while with Toronto. The record was broken by Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks during the  season. Playing career

Amateur career
As a youth, Olczyk played in the 1978 and 1979 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from Chicago. <mask> grew up in Niles, Illinois and Palos Heights, Illinois and went to Brother Rice Catholic High School. He was a star on the Illinois midget AAA team (Team Illinois) that won the 1982 national title against a Detroit Compuware squad that featured future NHL stars Pat LaFontaine and Al Iafrate. He then moved to Canada to play for the Stratford Cullitons junior team before joining the 1984 U.S. Olympic hockey team. Professional career
<mask> was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks as the third overall pick in the first round of the 1984 NHL Entry Draft.He scored his first NHL goal in his first NHL game on October 11, 1984, versus the Detroit Red Wings in Chicago Stadium against Greg Stefan. From 1984 through 1987, <mask> was a member of Chicago's infamous "Clydesdale Line" with Troy Murray and Curt Fraser, the nickname coined by Chicago's broadcaster Pat Foley, as each player weighed in at or around 200 pounds. He was traded several times during his career. In 1987, <mask> was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs with Al Secord for Rick Vaive, Steve Thomas, and Bob McGill. He was traded again in 1990 to the Winnipeg Jets, with Mark Osborne for Dave Ellett and Paul Fenton. In 1992, he was traded for the third time in his career, this time to the New York Rangers for Kris King and Tie Domi. <mask> missed much of the 1993–94 season recovering from a thumb injury suffered in a game versus the Florida Panthers on January 3, 1994; he took part in one playoff game (conference final game 6) and on June 14, 1994, became Stanley Cup champion with the Rangers.During the next season, he was traded back to the Winnipeg Jets for their fifth-round choice (who ended up being Alexei Vasiliev) in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. After signing as a free agent with the Los Angeles Kings in 1996, he would not finish the season with them before being traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Glen Murray. He finished his career in Chicago. Post-playing career
He returned to Pittsburgh to become the color commentator for the Penguins on FSN Pittsburgh, where he was given the nickname "Edzo" by current radio announcer and then co-announcer Mike Lange. In 2003, he moved from the booth to the bench and served as head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins from June 11, 2003, until December 15, 2005. Despite adding marquee free-agents, the Penguins started the season with a disappointing 8–17–6 record, leading to <mask>'s dismissal on December 15. Beginning with the 2006–07 NHL season, <mask> was the color commentator for the Chicago Blackhawks television broadcasts, partnering play-by-play announcer Pat Foley.He also was the lead color commentator for NHL on NBC, and previously for the NHL on Versus; the latter later rebranded as NBCSN in 2012. <mask> was also the lead game analyst for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Men's Ice Hockey, where he partners with Mike Emrick and "Inside-the-Glass" reporter Pierre McGuire. Perhaps his most notable moment as color commentator came at the end of the 5–3 U.S. win over Canada at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, when he described the game as being "tremendously tremendous" after U.S. forward Ryan Kesler scored an empty-netter. The audio of <mask> saying "This has been tremendously tremendous" was an instant hit among hockey enthusiasts and was the subject of many spoofs online. He was selected to repeat his duties alongside Emrick for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. In February 2016, it was announced that <mask>ner Award, which was founded in 2002 by the Chicago Athletic Association and honors broadcasters and writers who "exemplify the wit and warmth of Ring Lardner's writing." On July 11, 2012, <mask> became the 16th Blackhawks player elected into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.The Blackhawks honored "Edzo" for his induction in a pregame ceremony on February 22, 2013, at the United Center. In 2009, <mask> received an Emmy for "Outstanding Achievement for Individual Excellence On Camera: Programming," followed by a 2012 Emmy for "Outstanding Achievement for Sports Programs - Sporting Event/Game - Live/Unedited Program/Special." He was also inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 2013. On April 8, 2010, <mask> returned to Pittsburgh to join more than 50 former Pittsburgh Penguins players being honored in a pregame ceremony before the final regular season game at Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. On December 30, 2010, it was announced that Foley and <mask> signed a three-year extension to stay with the Blackhawks. On May 5, 2014, EA Sports announced that "<mask>" will provide color commentary for NHL 15 alongside play-by-play announcer Mike Emrick and "Inside-the-Glass" reporter Ray Ferraro. The trio have provided commentary for every EA Sports NHL game until NHL 19, when Ferraro became the new color commentator.Since the 2018–19 NHL season, "Inside-the-Glass" reporter Brian Boucher joins Emrick, Olczyk, and McGuire for big games. After Emrick retired on October 19, 2020, at the end of the 2020 Stanley Cup Finals, he was paired with Kenny Albert and John Forslund for most of the regular season but was paired with Albert for the playoffs and the Stanley Cup Finals. Albert, <mask>, and Keith Jones joined TNT after the Finals as their lead broadcast team. He will continue to work as the Blackhawks primary color commentator. <mask> also has an interest in Thoroughbred horse racing, appearing in advertisements for Xpressbet and serving as a guest commentator and handicapper for major horse racing events such as the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Oaks, Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes on NBC networks, and on WGN Sports coverage of the Arlington Million that is fed nationally. Despite his arrival at Turner for hockey, <mask>’s deal will allow him to remain at NBC to cover handicap horse racing. Personal life
<mask> and his wife, Diana, have four children, two of whom are currently playing hockey: Nick plays for the Colorado College Tigers, and Tom plays for the Indy Fuel.<mask> spent a season with the Bloomington Thunder of the SPHL and is currently an assistant coach with the Bemidji State Beavers. His younger brother Rick is a former hockey player for Brown University and is now an assistant general manager for the Seattle Kraken. Olczyk also has a daughter, Zandra, who is a student at the University of Alabama. On August 8, 2017, Olczyk issued a statement through the Blackhawks to announce that he had been diagnosed with a form of colon cancer. He underwent a surgical procedure to remove the tumor. In March 2018, <mask> announced that he was officially "cancer-free." In October 2019, Olczyk released his autobiography titled "<mask>: Beating the Odds in Hockey and in Life," where he shares details of his fight with stage 3 colon cancer.Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and achievements
 Stanley Cup champion – 1994 (New York Rangers)
 US Hockey Hall of Fame 2012

National team
 1984 Winter Olympics (seventh place)
 1984 Canada Cup (fourth place)
 1987 Canada Cup (fifth place)
 1991 Canada Cup (second place)
 Ice Hockey World Championships: 1985 (fourth place), 1986 (sixth place), 1987 (seventh place), 1989 (sixth place), 1993 (sixth place)

Coaching record

See also
 List of NHL players with 1,000 games played

References

External links

 <mask>'s profile at hockeydraftcentral.com

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<mask> (born February 3, 1959) is a Lebanese-American photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. His photographs have appeared on the front pages of The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Economist, Saudi Aramco World and other leading publications. Since 2006 he and Mariam Shahin, have produced over 50 films for the international satellite news network, Al Jazeera. Azar has also produced several documentaries for the internet news channel Vice News, including "Crime and Punishment in Gaza", "Renegade Jewish Settlers" and 'The Islamic State vs Lebanon". Azar has covered the Middle East and Arab/Islamic culture since 1981 and is the subject of the CBS Emmy Award-winning news feature, Beirut Photographer. He was also profiled in the BBC's Firing Line. He was nominated for the 2007 Rory Peck Award for his film Gaza Fixer.His and fellow filmmaker Tom Evans' film Two Schools in Nablus also received great acclaim, winning the Japan Prize in Education in 2008, and the British Royal Television Society Education Award in 2009. In addition, <mask> is the author and photographer of the critically acclaimed book Palestine: A Photographic Journey, and the photographer of Palestine: A Guide, written by Mariam Shahin. In addition to his work as a photojournalist and filmmaker, <mask> is a historian and curator. His writing, photography and photo curation is on permanent display on the first three floors of San Francisco's historic U.S. Customhouse, and New York's International Center of Photography hosted Azar's 2002 curation of Bill Biggart's "Twin Towers", which marked the one-year anniversary of the tragedy. Azar commands unique insight into both the Arab world and the western perceptions and misperceptions of it, and has lectured on the subject at major universities including the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Pepperdine and Harvard. Azar is currently a Photojournalist in Residence and a full-time instructor in Journalism and Digital Media at the American University of Beirut since Fall 2018–19. Early life
Azar was born in Philadelphia on February 3, 1959, the middle child of <mask>, Jr. and Gladys Saddic, both the children of Lebanese immigrants.He has three siblings, an older sister, Madelynn, and two younger brothers, Michael and Habib. When he was eight years old, the family relocated to San Diego, California, where he spent the remainder of his childhood. Between 1977 and 1981, <mask> attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in political science, history. He graduated magna cum laude. Having grown up in a Lebanese American household, and visiting Lebanon several times throughout his youth, <mask> was always extremely interested in the Middle East. In the introduction to his book, Palestine: A Photographic Journey, <mask> writes:

"My grandfather, 'Jiddu' Haleem, often spoke of a place where by custom, a hungry traveler could pick fruit from orchards, where snowy mountaintops overlooked the Mediterranean, and where villages with red-tiled roofs nestled in forests of cedar and pine. He called that country biladi, my homeland...the Arab world came alive for me through those stories."Then in July 1981, the Israeli Air Force bombed a neighborhood in Beirut called Fakhani, sending stacks of 700 pound bombs slamming into densely packed apartment buildings. Some 400 civilians were killed by the explosions or crushed by the weight of the fallen buildings. <mask> read about it in a newspaper, clipped the short article, and taped it onto the refrigerator door so his friends could see it. Throughout the summer he would look at this article and become overwhelmed. This Israeli bombing campaign in West Beirut was part of the early stages of what would eventually transform into the 1982 Lebanon War. <mask> writes, "I could imagine the press coverage that would have followed if 400 Jewish civilians been killed in a Palestinian attack. Yet, in 1981, the killing of 400 Arab civilians by Israel hardly caused a ripple in the American public mind."By the end of the summer, shocked and troubled, <mask> decided to see, first-hand, the conflict he had read about in newspapers. So, in September 1981, he departed for Beirut with his friend and college roommate, Michael Nelson. They hitchhiked across Europe to Lebanon, with the goal of pursuing careers in photojournalism. They finally arrived in Beirut in November 1981. And it was there and then that <mask>'s career began. Career
Once in Beirut, Azar became a news photographer, covering the Lebanese War as a stringer for the Associated Press (AP), United Press International (UPI) and later for the French photo agency, Gamma. From 1981 to 1989 Azar chronicled the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the destruction of the U.S. Marine compound, the civil insurrection in West Beirut, the vicious inter-factional war among the Palestinians in North Lebanon, The Druze-Maronite war in the Chouf mountains and the Syrian siege of Mount Lebanon.During the early days of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, <mask> was trapped under an intense bombardment, abandoned by his driver in a small town on the Lebanese coast, called Jieh. He was covering the war for Newsweek. When the Israelis overran the town there was a brief, but intense fight. Jieh was left in ruins. <mask> was taken by the Israeli army, and marched to the outskirts of Damour. Because he held press credentials and U.S. citizenship he was not blindfolded, handcuffed and beaten, as were the other Arab men he saw. He was kept with a group of paratroopers in a large house overlooking the ocean, which, unknown to them, was owned by former Lebanese president Camille Chamoun.After three days he was taken to the local Israeli command center where he was interrogated. His cameras and pockets were emptied and his film destroyed. Upon the insistence of an Israeli photographer, Shalomo Arad, who was serving in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) he was put on a military helicopter and flown out of the war zone to Israel. <mask> wrote about the experience:

"Peering from the helicopter window, I felt, in a strange way like Elijah in his flaming chariot, flying among the clouds above the Holy Land. Looking down I could see funnel clouds of black smoke billowing from a hundred different points along the Lebanese countryside. Houses lay smashed by artillery fire. Burned out cars and taxis, strafed by fighter-bombers were strewn upside down, or lying in bomb craters along the coast highway.Lebanon burned below. Armored columns of tanks snaked northward from Israel, laying waste to the land." <mask> was taken to the Newsweek office in Jerusalem, where he handed over two rolls of color film he had taken of the Israeli assault on Jieh, and hidden from the Israelis in his underwear. On the rolls were photographs of terrified Palestinian refugees trapped in a building as it was being shelled, and Israeli battle-tanks leveling Lebanese houses at point-blank range. When the magazine appeared the following week it carried two of <mask>'s photographs. One was of two Lebanese militiamen firing a machine-gun at Israeli jets, and the other of a PLO guerrilla walking past a destroyed building. The photographs of the Israeli assault on Jieh were never seen again.Newsweek claims they were lost. After delivering his film to Newsweek, <mask> was free to go on his way. But before returning to Beirut, he traveled to the Palestinian Occupied Territories. <mask> was horrified by the devastation he saw. And so began a fascination with Palestine and a desire to document and report the plight of the Palestinian people; a desire that would shape and dominate his career in the following years. When the First Intifada erupted in Palestine in the winter of 1987, <mask> was living in the United States, working as a photographer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He had left the horror of Beirut, Damour and Tripoli behind almost two years before and resisted the thought of ever going back.But as he watched images on the news of the people of the villages, refugee camps and towns of Palestine taking to the streets, protected by nothing save the cloth of their keffiyehs, and armed with stones, he finally decided to return to Palestine. The photos he took during that stay in Palestine would become his first book, the critically acclaimed Palestine: A Photographic Journey, published in 1991. In December 2012, Al Jazeera English flagship documentary series "Witness" aired "Beirut Photographer" Directed by <mask> and Mariam Shahin. The film is about Azar's return to Beirut 30 years after his first visit and documents his journey to the past and how he finds and reconnects to many of the people he photographed in 1982. Production

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Beirut Photographer (48 min documentary)
Fall Out In The Mediterranean (44 min documentary)

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Lost Manuscripts of Timbuktu (22 min documentary)
Abduallah Goes to Essekane (22 min documentary)
On War with Josh Rushing (22 min documentary)

2007
Crossroads Europe: Islam in  Berlin (22 min documentary)
Iraq: The Way Out? Lebanon, Philadelphia Inquirer
1988 - The Palestinian Uprising, University of California Press
1987 - The Grateful Dead, Philadelphia Inquirer
1987 - Philadelphia Prizefighters, Philadelphia Magazine
1985 - The Iran-Iraq War, Battle of Basra, U.S. News & World Report
1985 - East Beirut & Mt. Lebanon, Philadelphia Inquirer
1984 - Insurrection in West Beirut, Newsweek
1984 - A Sniper's Story, Beirut,  Philadelphia Inquirer
1983 - Bombing of the U.S. Marine Compound Beirut, UPI
1983 - War of the Camps, Northern Lebanon, Newsweek
1982 - The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, Newsweek
1981 - The Lebanese Civil War, AP

Books
Azar, George, Palestine, A Photographic Journey, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.Mariam Shahin & <mask>, Palestine, A Guide, Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2005. - finalist for the Independent Publisher Book Award 2006, received an Honorable Mention for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards, and was The Independents "Pick of the Picture Books Award". References

External links
<mask>: Middle East Photographer Retrieved 2012-12-12
<mask>'s Middle Eastern Journeys: 16 years of photojournalism from the Arab world Retrieved 2012-12-12
Jadaliyya, November 29, 2012: Beirut Photographer: Interview with <mask> Retrieved 2012-12-12
New York Times article by <mask>, June 12, 2006: Errant Shell Turns Girl Into Palestinian Icon Retrieved 2012-12-12

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<mask> (; ; born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian actor and musician. He started his career as a child actor, voicing the character of Brother Bear on the children’s television show The Berenstain Bears and portraying a young Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002). He has had numerous roles in United States television and film productions, including character <mask> on the sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and for his film roles as Evan in Superbad (2007), Paulie Bleeker in Juno (2007), Scott Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and a fictional version of himself in This Is the End (2013). He voiced Dick Grayson/Robin in The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Barry (a deformed sausage) in Sausage Party (2016), and Sal Viscuso, the voice behind the announcements in Childrens Hospital. <mask> made his Broadway debut in the 2014 production of Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth. For his performance in the 2018 production of Lonergan's Lobby Hero, Cera was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. Cera starred in the revival of Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery.In addition to acting, Cera is a musician, having released his debut album True That in 2014. Cera has also performed as the touring bassist for indie rock supergroup Mister Heavenly. Early life
<mask> was born in 1988 in Brampton, Ontario. He is the son of Linda (née Cockman) and <mask>, a technician. His father is Sicilian (Italian), and his mother has Irish, Dutch, Scottish, and English ancestry. His parents both worked for Xerox. Cera has an older sister, Jordan, and a younger sister, Molly.He became interested in acting after viewing Ghostbusters repeatedly when sick with the chicken pox at the age of three. He memorized all the dialogue and idolized Bill Murray. He enrolled in The Second City, Toronto, and took improvisation classes. Cera attended Conestoga Public School, Robert H. Lagerquist Senior Public School, and Heart Lake Secondary School until grade nine. After starting acting, he completed school online through grade 12. Career

1999–2008: Child acting and breakthrough
His first role was an unpaid appearance in a Tim Hortons summer camp commercial. That appearance eventually landed him a position in a Pillsbury commercial, in which he poked the Pillsbury Doughboy and had his first role with lines.He found it "really disheartening" not to be cast in commercials after auditions. But in 1999, Cera moved beyond that: he was cast as Larrabe Hicks in the Canadian children's show I Was a Sixth Grade Alien, which ran for two seasons. That year, he also appeared in the television films What Katy Did and Switching Goals, starring the Olsen twins. The next year Cera made his theatrical film debut in the science fiction film Frequency (2000) as the son of Noah Emmerich's character. Cera also appeared in the films Steal This Movie! and Ultimate G's: Zac's Flying Dream in 2000. He had his first leading role in the latter film, which was presented in IMAX theaters.Cera appeared in several television films in 2001, including My Louisiana Sky and The Familiar Stranger. He also began voicing Josh Spitz in the animated series Braceface, which he continued until 2004. In 2002, Cera played the young Chuck Barris (played by Sam Rockwell) in the George Clooney-directed film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. He provided the voice for Brother Bear – an anthropomorphic bear – in the 2003 The Berenstain Bears animated series, which aired for three seasons. He had a role in the critically panned Fox pilot The Grubbs in 2002, which was never aired. But Cera successfully auditioned for a part in another Fox sitcom, Arrested Development. This began airing in November 2003 and ran for three seasons.The show follows the formerly wealthy and dysfunctional Bluth family, with <mask> playing <mask> Bluth, the teenage son of character <mask>, played by Jason Bateman. After three seasons, Fox canceled the series in 2006 due to low viewership, although it had received critical acclaim. In 2006, <mask> created and starred in a parody of Impossible is Nothing, a video résumé created by Aleksey Vayner. <mask> and his Arrested Development co-star Alia Shawkat guest-starred as a pair of college students in the teen noir drama Veronica Mars, in the episode "The Rapes of Graff" in 2006. Along with best friend Clark Duke, <mask> wrote and starred in a series of short videos released on their website. Duke originated the idea, as he was enrolled at Loyola Marymount University and used their videos for his film school studies. In 2007, the pair signed a deal with CBS Television to write, produce, direct, and act in a short-form comedy series entitled Clark and <mask>.The show featured guest stars such as David Cross, Andy Richter and Patton Oswalt, and was distributed via CBS's internet channel, CBS Innertube. In May 2007, <mask> appeared in a staged comedy video that shows him being fired from the lead role of the film Knocked Up, after belittling and arguing with its director Judd Apatow, in a scene that mocks the David O. Russell blow up on the set of I Heart Huckabees. <mask> starred in the Apatow-produced teen comedy Superbad alongside Jonah Hill. Their characters in the film – two virgin teenagers about to graduate from high school whose party plans go awry – were based on the comedy's writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Superbad was released in cinemas in August 2007, topping the US box office for two weeks in a row. <mask>'s performance was critically acclaimed: The Atlantic reviewer said that the film "belongs to <mask>" for capturing "teenage sexual abashment as indelibly as he did in the role of <mask>". [Note: On Arrested Development.]The New York Times said that he was "excellent" and CNN praised <mask> and Hill for playing "off each other beautifully". In November 2007, Cera hosted a live, staged version of Saturday Night Live; it was not broadcast due to the ongoing 2007 Writers Guild of America Strike. In his second film of 2007, Cera co-starred in Juno as Paulie Bleeker, a teenager who has impregnated his long-time school friend Juno (played by Elliot Page). For Superbad and Juno, Cera won Breakthrough Artist in the Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2007, and was included in Entertainment Weekly's "30 Under 30" list in February 2008. Cera starred alongside Kat Dennings in the romantic comedy-drama Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008), in which they played two strangers who bond over their shared love of a band and try to find their secret show. He starred in the comedy Extreme Movie (2008), which was composed of vignettes focusing on teen sex. Cera held a recurring role on the comedy series Childrens Hospital from 2008 to 2016 as Sal Viscuso, a hospital staffer who is known only by his voice through an intercom.2009–2013: Varied success and stage debut

<mask> played a fictionalized version of himself in the independent romantic comedy Paper Heart (2009). It explored the fictional relationship between <mask> and the film's writer Charlyne Yi, also playing herself. <mask> and Yi composed the film's score together. That year Cera starred opposite Jack Black in the comedy Year One, set during the Stone Age. The film, directed by Harold Ramis, was poorly received, although Time magazine critic Mary Pols said that Cera's performance saved the film from being a "catastrophe". In his final film of 2009, Cera starred in Youth in Revolt, an adaptation of the eponymous novel. He played a shy teenager named Nick Twisp who creates a destructive alter ego, François Dillinger, after becoming smitten with a girl, played by Portia Doubleday.<mask> had also begun to write. His first published short story, "Pinecone", appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly thirtieth issue in 2009. <mask> was cast as Scott Pilgrim in the film adaptation of the graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The film's director Edgar Wright had seen his work in Arrested Development and believed that Cera was an actor "audiences will still follow even when the character is being a bit of an ass". The film, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, follows Pilgrim, a musician who must battle the seven evil exes of his girlfriend Ramona (played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead). It was released in cinemas in August 2010. It did poorly at the box office, grossing $47.7 million against a production budget of $85–90 million.Cera made a guest appearance in "The Daughter Also Rises", a 2012 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons, as the voice of Nick, a love interest to Lisa Simpson. <mask> made his theater debut in a production of Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth in a two-week run during March 2012 at the Sydney Opera House. The play also featured his Scott Pilgrim co-stars Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson. A Broadway production at the Cort Theater opened in September 2014 and closed in January 2015. The New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley praised Cera for achieving "something remarkable": "the sense of an amorphous being assuming and losing shape in the course of roughly 12 hours". Also in 2012, Cera played a supporting role in the drama The End of Love and appeared in the short film The Immigrant. Arrested Development was revived for a fourth season in 2012 by Netflix, with Cera reprising his role as <mask> Bluth.Cera also worked in the writers' room and served as a consulting producer during its production. The season was released in May 2013. Cera collaborated with Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva on two films in 2013 – Magic Magic and Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus – both of which were filmed in Chile and premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. He spent "five hours a day learning Spanish" for Magic Magic. Cera was featured most prominently in Crystal Fairy, in which he starred as a self-absorbed man travelling Chile with a woman named "Crystal Fairy" (played by Gaby Hoffmann) while bearing a cactus. Along with Reggie Watts, Tim & Eric, and Sarah Silverman, Cera created the web-based comedy YouTube channel Jash in March 2013, where he has posted short films which he directs and/or stars in. These films include the comedy-drama Gregory Go Boom (2013), in which Cera played a paraplegic man, and his directorial debut Brazzaville Teen-Ager (2013), co-starring Charles Grodin as his sick father.He played an exaggerated version of himself in the apocalyptic comedy film This Is the End, which was released in summer of 2013 and featured his Superbad co-stars Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen. Throughout 2013, Cera also appeared on Burning Love, a web spoof of reality dating competition shows, and on an episode of Drunk History as John Endecott. Cera had previously played Alexander Hamilton in a comedic retelling of Hamilton's duel with Aaron Burr on the show's first episode as a web series in 2008 before it was adapted into a television show. 2014–present
Cera appeared with his Arrested Development co-star David Cross' 2014 film Hits, playing a marijuana dealer. He also co-starred alongside John Hawkes and Sally Hawkins in Charlie Kaufman's television pilot How & Why, which was rejected by FX. After a brief, "menacing" appearance in the drama Entertainment (2015), Cera appeared in the prequel to the 2001 comedy film Wet Hot American Summer, the comedy series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp and in the Christmas musical comedy film A Very Murray Christmas as Bill Murray's fictional talent agent. Cera then voiced a hot dog trying to escape his fate in a supermarket in the animated comedy Sausage Party (2016).In 2015, Cera made a cameo on Louis C.K. 's Louie on FX, in the season five episode "Sleepover" alongside Glenn Close, John Lithgow, and Matthew Broderick. Cera had five film releases in 2017, the first of which was the animated superhero comedy The Lego Batman Movie, in which he voiced the Batman's sidekick Robin. He played a supporting role as a sleazy car salesman in the comedy How to Be a Latin Lover and co-starred in Janicza Bravo's first full-length feature, the comedy-drama Lemon. He played an actor described as having a "wedge of hair that makes him look like Frédéric Chopin crossed with Eraserhead", by Variety critic Owen Gleiberman. Cera starred opposite Abbi Jacobson in the drama Person to Person, focusing on the struggles of different people over the course of one day in New York City. <mask> and Jacobson are featured as a pair of crime reporters investigating a possible murder.In his final film of the year, Aaron Sorkin's crime drama Molly's Game, Cera played a celebrity known only as Player X who participates in a high-stakes, underground poker empire run by Molly Bloom (played by Jessica Chastain). <mask>'s fictional character in the film was said to be a composite character of celebrity poker players and actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Ben Affleck. A "giant fan" of director David Lynch, <mask> made a guest appearance in the 2017 revival of Lynch and Mark Frost's television show Twin Peaks in the show's fourth episode, as Wally "Brando" Brennan, the son of Deputy Sheriff Andy Brennan and his wife Lucy Brennan. The appearance contained several references to the work of actor Marlon Brando: Wally shares the same birthday and is nicknamed after Brando. Cera returned to the stage in March 2018, starring in a second Kenneth Lonergan production, Lobby Hero, at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway. The play also stars Chris Evans, Brian Tyree Henry and Bel Powley. <mask> and Henry were both nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Play at the 72nd Tony Awards.Cera appeared onstage again in October 2018, starring in a third Kenneth Lonergan production, a revival of The Waverly Gallery at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway. The play also starred Elaine May, Lucas Hedges, and Joan Allen. Cera co-starred in the 2018 film drama Gloria Bell, with Julianne Moore as the title character. In 2019, Cera made a guest appearance in Between Two Ferns: The Movie as himself. Cera's upcoming projects include the animated comedy Blazing Samurai about a dog who wishes to become a samurai. Cera returned to his role as <mask> Bluth in the fifth season of Arrested Development in 2018. In 2021, Cera lent his voice to the adult animated film Cryptozoo.Music

In 2010, <mask> contributed mandolin and backing vocals to the Weezer song "Hang On" from their album Hurley. <mask> has also established himself as the touring bass player in Mister Heavenly, an indie rock band originating in the American northwest, and is a member of the band The Long Goodbye, along with Clark Duke. Cera also played bass and sang back up during songs in both Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. He released his full-length debut album True That on August 8, 2014, through his official Bandcamp page. The album features 19 original tracks, a cover of Roderick Falconer's "Play It Again" as well as a cover of Blaze Foley's "Clay Pigeons." In early 2015, Canadian musician Alden Penner released "Meditate", a track from his upcoming EP Canada in Space, which features Cera. Penner subsequently announced that the EP would be released on June 29, 2015 on City Slang records, as well as a European tour of the UK, Netherlands, France, and Germany, which featured Cera as both co-headliner and member of Penner's backing band.The song "Best I Can" from the film Dina, written and performed by <mask> and featuring Sharon Van Etten, was nominated for 'Best Song in a Documentary' at the 2017 Critics' Choice Documentary Awards. Filmography

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 True That (2014)

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 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2010)

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List of former child actors from Canada
Italians in Toronto

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<mask>  (born 30 November 1946) is a contemporary British artist. Since 1990 <mask> has lived and worked in Hartgrove, Dorset, England. Biography
<mask> was born and raised in Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire. He studied English Literature and began working as an artist in 1968. In 1970 he took his first studio at SPACE, St. Katherine's dock, London, an artists' initiative set up by Bridget Riley and Peter Sedgley. His first group exhibition was held in West Berlin in 1971, and this was soon followed by his first solo exhibition at Cardiff Arts Centre. He was awarded the Arts Council Bursary in 1973 and in the same year held his first London solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA).In 1989 he was awarded the DAAD scholarship in Berlin. This was followed in 1990 by a major retrospective exhibition of his work at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. In 2003 he was elected a Royal Academician. Works
<mask>'s early landscape photographic/drawing works such as Field Series (19780 and Waterfalls (1979) were influenced by the writings of Robert Smithson, followed by the over-painted landscape photographs in such groups as Lapland Paintings (1985–1986) and History of Rocks (1986–1988) where the painterly gesture comes to the fore. And finally, beginning with the Door Paintings (1990–1994), McKeever's works became more concerned with pure painting hovering between abstraction and a residual sense of figuration. This phase continues to this day in such groups of paintings as Temple Paintings (2004–2006) and Twelve-Standing (2009–2012) with an increased paring down of discernible subject matter in the work and an emphasis on the quality of light. "Light in a painting intrigues me enormously: how to imbue a painting with light so that one is not actually depicting it, but somehow its quality is implicitly within the painting— [...] emanating from it."In 2006 <mask> returned to working with photographs, however they are now kept independent of his painted works. Gallery

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<mask> has written numerous texts and essays on art, including personal reflections on painting and on other painters' works. His 1982 manifesto titled Black and White...Or how to paint with a hammer (published by Matt's Gallery, London), expounded his internal conflict between the subjective nature of painting and the more conceptual parameters his work had adhered to so far. In 2005, his lectures at Cambridge University and the University of Brighton were published as three essays in the book In Praise of Painting, covering topics such as the presence and absence of light in Western painting. Writings on other artists include Thoughts on Emil Nolde in 1996; Absolute Light, an essay on Russian icons for the British Museum magazine in 2004; and Thinking about Georgia O'Keeffe for the Louisiana Revy, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark. Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions

2012 Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop; National Museum of Norway, Oslo
2011 Sønderjylands Kunstmuseum, Tønder; Tate Britain, London
2010 Royal Academy of Arts, London
2009 Kings Place Gallery, London
2008 Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2007 Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg i.Br. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
New Carlsberg Foundation and New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tønder, Denmark
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg, Germany
Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Museum of Fine Art, Budapest, Hungary

Nordic Aquarell Museum, Skärham, Sweden
National Gallery of South Africa, Johannesburg
Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, USA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
Cincinnati Museum of Modern Art, Cincinnati, USA
The Haggerty Museum of Modern Art, Milwaukee, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts, USA
Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA

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References
Ian McKeever: Paintings.With essays by Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, Michael Tucker, Catherine Lampert. Surrey: Lund Humphries, 2009. McKeever: Hartgrove, Paintings and Photographs. With contributions from Heinz Liesbrock, Richard Deacon and <mask>. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2012. External links

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 Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections

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<mask> (; March 2, 1923 – February 17, 2017) was an American Republican Party politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives for 38 years. He represented central Illinois' 18th congressional district, and was the GOP leader in the House, serving as House Minority Leader during his last 14 years in congress (1981–1995). He could not serve as Speaker of the House as his tenure in leadership occurred during a decades-long era in which the Democratic Party dominated the House of Representatives. Early life
<mask> was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. His father was an immigrant from Alsace and his mother was the daughter of German immigrants. He attended Peoria High School. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Bradley University.Military service
When the U.S. entered the Second World War, <mask> joined the United States Army and served with the 39th Infantry Regiment as an infantryman in England, France, Belgium, and Germany from February 10, 1943, to January 26, 1946, while also participating in the Invasion of Normandy in 1944. He was wounded by machine gun fire and awarded two Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, and four battle stars. Education and early career
After the war ended, <mask> attended Bradley University in Peoria, graduating in 1948. From 1949 to 1956, he worked as an administrative assistant to U.S. Representative <mask>. Electoral career

Although <mask> was never part of the majority party, during his 38 years in the House he was noted for his bipartisanship in striking bargains. <mask> was well respected across the aisle and was good friends with Democrats such as Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill and Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski. <mask> was elected as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1956 and served until his retirement on January 3, 1995.He served as Minority Whip from 94th Congress through the 96th Congress. <mask> served from 1959 to 1980 as a member of the House Appropriations Committee, including 12 years as the ranking Republican on the Labor, Health, Education and Welfare Subcommittee. Later, he served as House Minority Leader from the 97th Congress through 103rd Congresses. <mask> voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1968, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. <mask>'s toughest re-election was probably during the 1982 midterms, when he was in a tight race due to dissatisfaction over U.S. President Ronald Reagan's economic policies and the 1982 recession. Reagan travelled to Peoria to campaign for him. <mask> voted in favor the bill establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday in August 1983.In March 1988, <mask> voted against the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 (as well as to uphold President Reagan's veto). <mask> stirred a controversy in 1988 when he recalled enjoying and participating in blackface minstrel shows as a young man, and said he missed the shows. He also compared the removal of racially offensive words in songs such as "Ol' Man River" to the Soviet re-writing of history. He later apologized for having given offence, explaining that he was honestly attempting to understand and accept changes in U.S. culture. In the early 1990s, Newt Gingrich and other young, aggressive conservative congressmen criticized <mask> for being too easy-going and not fighting hard enough for Republican goals in the House. Supporters said <mask>'s practice of socializing with Democrats over a game of golf or cards resulted in deals that moved bills through the legislative process. It was also noted that <mask>'s voting was nearly as conservative as Gingrich's.In 1993 <mask> gave the rebuttal to President Bill Clinton's first State of the Union speech, criticizing the economic policies of the newly inaugurated president. "The Clinton spin doctors have even given us a new political vocabulary, if you will – investment now means big government spending your tax dollars. Patriotism now means agreeing with the Clinton program. The powerful evocative word, sacrifice, has been reduced to the level of a bumper sticker slogan", he said. He was later criticized for obstructing Clinton's economic stimulus plan. As a result of Gingrich's rising prominence which gradually attracted support from the caucus, <mask> decided not to seek re-election in the 1994 mid-term elections. Had <mask> run in the 1994 elections and won, he would have served in a Republican-controlled House for the first time in his entire Congressional career.However, the caucus would have likely favored Gingrich over <mask> as Speaker of the House, due to Gingrich's central role in the Republican Revolution. In announcing his retirement, <mask> complained that some of his fellow congressmen were more interested in picking fights than in passing laws. Gingrich had a confrontational style, which contrasted sharply with <mask>'s bipartisanship, but Republicans retained the majority during his term. Gingrich's successor as Speaker, <mask>, stated his desire to return to <mask>'s style. <mask> was succeeded in Congress by his longtime chief of staff, <mask>. Several years after <mask>'s retirement, LaHood praised his former boss. <mask> "knew warfare first hand", <mask> said."That is the reason he never used the macho phrases like 'warfare' and 'take no prisoners' when discussing politics with his staff. To Bob, the harsh, personal rhetoric of ideological warfare had no place in his office, no place in the House, and no place in American politics." Namesakes and honors

On January 18, 1989, outgoing president Ronald Reagan conferred upon him the Presidential Citizens Medal, the second highest civilian award given, making him the 7th recipient of the honor. On August 8, 1994, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, by President Bill Clinton. He was one of the recipients of the first Congressional Distinguished Service Award in 2000, along with John Rhodes, Louis Stokes, and Don Edwards. This honor was created by then-Speaker <mask> and then-Minority Leader Dick Gephardt. In 2010, he was given the Schachman Award by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.The Society commended him for his post-congressional work in increasing public and congressional support for the National Institutes of Health which contributed to the doubling of the NIH's budget. During the 1960s <mask> was a frequent winning pitcher in the annual Democrats vs. Republicans baseball game, and in 1993, the Capitol Hill publication Roll Call, named him to its Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1994, <mask> received the U.S. Senator <mask> Award for Greatest Public Service by an Elected or Appointed Official, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards. The <mask> Bridge, carrying Illinois Route 40 across the Illinois River at Peoria, is named after <mask><mask> as is the Robert H. <mask> Student Center at Bradley University. In the United States Capitol, the second-floor suite of offices occupied by the Speaker were designated the <mask> H. <mask> Rooms by the House in 1995. At the Capitol Hill Club located adjacent to the Republican National Committee, the cloak room is named for <mask>.In Peoria, Illinois, the VA Clinic is named the <mask> Community Based Outpatient Clinic. The <mask> H. <mask> Lifetime Achievement Award is presented by the Creve Coeur Club of Peoria each year at the Club's Washington Day Banquet to recognize community leadership. <mask><mask> was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 1997 in the area of Government. Personal life and death
<mask> was married to Corinne Woodruff (<mask>) from 1948 until her death in 2003. The couple had four children, Scott, Bruce, Robin, and Laurie. In 1978, he required hospital treatment after he was robbed and beaten by youths outside his Washington, D.C. home. One perpetrator was caught and convicted in juvenile court of assault on a member of Congress and assault with intent to rob.<mask> died on February 17, 2017, at the age of 93 from pneumonia in Arlington, Virginia. References

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<mask> (王元膺) (892 – August 13, 913), courtesy name Changmei (昌美), né <mask> (王宗懿), named <mask> (王元坦) from 910 to 912, was a crown prince of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Former Shu, during most of the reign of his father, the founding emperor <mask> (Emperor Taizu). He was killed during an uprising he started against the powerful official Tang Daoxi and posthumously demoted to commoner rank. Background
<mask> was born in 892, before the founding of the Former Shu state, as <mask>'s second son. His mother was a Lady Zhang, who later would be given the imperial consort title of Guifei (貴妃) after <mask> founded Former Shu. As his older brother <mask> (王宗仁), born of a Lady Ma, was disabled in his youth, <mask> was considered in effect <mask>'s oldest son, and at some point during <mask>'s service as a Tang Dynasty general was given the honorific title of deputy director of the archival bureau (秘書少監). When <mask> declared himself Emperor of Shu in 907, he created <mask>yi the Prince of Sui. As crown prince
In 908, <mask> created <mask> crown prince.In 909, <mask> made him the titular commander of the imperial guards, and established headquarters for him, naming the headquarters Yonghe Hall (永和府). <mask> also selected a number of officials to serve on his staff. <mask>yi was said to be ugly in appearance, but talented in many things, particularly archery. However, he was also said to be arrogant and violent, paying no heed to the counsel of the officials <mask> put on his staff. He soon came into conflict with <mask>'s close associate Tang Daoxi the director of palace communications, as he often made fun of Tang, leading to their mutually accusing each other of crimes. <mask>, not wanting them to be in constant conflict, made Tang the military governor (Jiedushi) of Shannan West Circuit (山南西道, headquartered in modern Hanzhong, Shaanxi) in 910 to separate them. Later in 910, <mask> renamed him <mask>.Subsequently, when <mask> made two tours  away from the capital Chengdu to Li Prefecture (利州, in modern Guangyuan, Sichuan) in 911 in response to attacks by Former Shu's northern neighbor Qi, he had <mask> serve as regent at Chengdu. In 912, apparently in reaction to an incident where <mask> found a bronze medallion on the outskirts of the city, which <mask> considered a sign of divine favor, <mask> renamed him <mask>. In 913, when Tang completed his term as the military governor of Shannan West and returned to Chengdu to again serve as the director of palace communications, <mask> submitted accusations against Tang and declared that Tang should not be again in charge of palace communications, <mask> was displeased, but subsequently reacted by making Tang an advisor to <mask>. Uprising against Tang Daoxi and death
In fall 913, <mask> planned a vacation away from Chengdu for the Qixi Festival (on August 11 that year). The night before (August 10), <mask> held a feast for the imperial princes and high-level officials, but three invitees — <mask>'s adoptive son <mask> (王宗翰) the Prince of Ji, and the officials Pan Qiao (潘峭, who succeeded Tang Daoxi as the director of palace communications) and Mao Wenxi (the chief imperial scholar) — did not attend. <mask>, in anger, accused Pan and Mao in absentia of alienating his brothers from him. Meanwhile, <mask>'s trusted officers Xu Yao (徐瑤) and Chang Qian (常謙) were gazing at Tang.Tang, in fear, fled from the feast. The morning next day (August 11, the date of the Qixi Festival), <mask> went to see his father <mask> and accused Pan and Mao of alienating him from his brothers. <mask>, believing the accusations, ordered Pan and Mao demoted, making Pan's brother Pan Kang the new director of palace communications. However, after <mask> then left the palace, Tang arrived, and Tang made the counteraccusation that <mask> was planning to rebel, and, as part of his planning, was planning to put the princes and the officials under arrest. <mask>, with his suspicions aroused, cancelled the Qixi vacation plans. Further, he agreed to Tang's request to mobilize the regular troops to defend the palace (rather than the imperial guards, who were formally under <mask>'s command). Upon hearing that the regular troops had been mobilized, <mask> mobilized his own Tianwu Army (天武軍).He arrested Pan Qiao and Mao and almost battered them to death, in addition to arresting Pan Jiao (潘嶠) the mayor of Chengdu. The next day (August 12), Xu, Chang, and Yan Lin (嚴璘), under <mask>'s direction, attacked Tang's forces. Tang initially resisted, but tried to retreat when an arrow hit him. The crown prince's troops then routed his, killing him, and many of the troops under Tang were killed. In response, at Pan Kang's suggestion, <mask> summoned his adoptive sons <mask> (王宗侃), <mask> (王宗賀), and <mask> (王宗魯), ordering them to launch an attack against <mask>'s troops. They did so, along with another adoptive son, <mask>'an (王宗黯). They killed Xu in battle.Chang and <mask> fled to Longyao Pond (龍躍池) and hid on a boat there. The next morning (August 13), <mask> came out of hiding and requested food from the boat owner. This was reported to <mask>, and he dispatched <mask> to try to comfort <mask>. However, before <mask> arrived at Longyao Pond, <mask> was killed by his own guard. <mask> initially mourned <mask> bitterly, but later decided that without declaring <mask>ying a renegade, he could not comfort the people, and therefore demoted <mask> to commoner rank, although, apparently at <mask>'s direction, <mask> had <mask>'s killer executed. Many of <mask>'s associates were killed or exiled. Notes and references

 Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms, vol.38. Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 266, 267, 268. 892 births
913 deaths
Former Shu people born during Tang
Former Shu politicians
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms imperial princes
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms regents
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<mask>  (27 August 1925 – 15 January 2011) was an English professional footballer who played as a forward for Bolton Wanderers for his entire career. He won 33 caps for England between 1950 and 1958, scoring 30 goals, with one of the highest goals-per-game ratios of any England player. Playing career

Born in Bolton, Lancashire, in 1925, Lofthouse joined the town's main club on 4 September 1939 and made his debut in a wartime 5–1 win against Bury on 22 March 1941 when he scored two goals. It was then more than five years until he made his league debut for the club, but he eventually played against Chelsea on 31 August 1946, when he scored twice in a 4–3 defeat. <mask> would go on to play 33 games for England, but his debut on 22 November 1950 made him 25 when he finally broke into the team. He perhaps justified a claim to an earlier call-up by scoring both goals in a 2–2 draw against Yugoslavia at Highbury on his debut. On 25 May 1952, Lofthouse earned the title 'Lion of Vienna' after scoring his second goal in England's 3–2 victory over Austria.In doing so he was elbowed in the face, tackled from behind, and finally brought down by the goalkeeper. Back from national team duty, he then scored six goals in a game for the Football League against the Irish League on 24 September 1952. In 1952–53, he was named FWA Footballer of the Year. He scored a goal – but was on the losing side – in the famous 1953 FA Cup Final (aka 'The Matthews Final'), having previously scored in each round. That season he topped the First Division goalscoring charts with 30 goals. He featured in the 1954 World Cup side. Lofthouse scored twice against Belgium in a match that ended 4–4.Injured for the next match, in the quarter final game against Uruguay he equalized in the 16th minute, after receiving the ball in the 18-yard box. On 3 May 1958, almost five years to the day after losing the 1953 final, Lofthouse captained Bolton in the 1958 FA Cup Final against Manchester United. There was a national wave of sympathy for United, who three months earlier had suffered grievously in the Munich air disaster. Bolton won the game 2–0 with Lofthouse scoring both goals, the second of which was highly controversial and remains a talking point to this day. Lofthouse went into a challenge with the United keeper Harry Gregg and barged him into the net to score. Shoulder charging the goalkeeper was a legitimate tactic at the time, but Lofthouse later admitted that his challenge was a foul. On 26 November 1958, Lofthouse made his final England appearance, against Wales, at the age of 33, and he officially retired from the game in January 1960 because of an ankle injury, although his final league game was not until 17 December of that year, when he suffered a knee injury against Birmingham City.Lofthouse stands seventh in the list of English football's top division goalscorers. Coaching and managerial career
After retiring from playing football, Lofthouse became the assistant trainer at Burnden Park on 10 July 1961 and was then appointed chief coach at the club in 1967. In 1968, he spent a brief time as caretaker manager of the club and took over the job full-time on 18 December. Before becoming Bolton's chief scout, he became an administrative manager at Burnden. In 1978, he became the club's executive manager. In 1985, at the age of 60, Lofthouse became caretaker manager at the club again and became president in 1986. Recognition
Lofthouse was the recipient of various honours after retiring from the game.On 2 December 1989, he was made a Freeman of Bolton. On 1 January 1994, he was appointed an OBE and on 18 January 1997, Bolton decided to name their East Stand at their new Reebok Stadium after him. On 24 August 2013, a statue was dedicated. On 7 April 1993, he appeared as a special guest on the TV guest show This Is Your Life, in which the on-screen guests included Tom Finney and Harry Gregg, while others including Bobby Charlton, Gary Lineker and Ian Rush appeared on screen to pay tribute to Lofthouse as they were unable to appear alongside Lofthouse due to other commitments. Tributes were paid to Lofthouse as he celebrated his 80th birthday, including a party at the Reebok. A campaign, backed by Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association and former Bolton player, was started, aiming to get Lofthouse knighted. <mask> was an Inaugural Inductee into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002.Personal life

Already a Bolton Wanderers player having joined them in 1939 Lofthouse was conscripted in 1943 and worked in Mosley Common colliery as a Bevin Boy. He married Alma Foster in 1947 and they remained married until her death in 1985. They had two children, a son, Jeff, and a daughter, Vivien. Death
Lofthouse died on 15 January 2011, aged 85, in a nursing home in Bolton. He had suffered with dementia. On 24 January 2011 in Bolton Wanderers first home game since his death against Chelsea, a pre-match period of a minute's silence, thunderous applause, black-and-white footage of Lofthouse in action and the laying of floral tributes by Kevin Davies and John Terry took place before the start of the match. Lofthouse was buried on 26 January 2011 as thousands turned out to say goodbye at Bolton Parish Church.His funeral service was attended by more than 500 invited guests and members of the public. Eulogies were offered by Bolton chairman Phil Gartside and Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor, a boyhood Bolton fan and former Wanderers player. Former Bolton captain Kevin Davies and then manager Owen Coyle were among the pallbearers. Legacy

Soon after Lofthouse's death a swell of support for a statue to be built in his memory started. A year to the day after his death, Bolton Wanderers chairman Phil Gartside announced plans for one to be built and for the statue to be situated outside the Reebok Stadium. The plan was for the statue to be funded by public donations, with help from the club. It was unveiled on 24 August 2013, three days before what would have been Lofthouse's 88th birthday.It was originally scheduled to take place three days later on his birthday but the date was moved forward to coincide with Bolton's home fixture against Queens Park Rangers. In April 1998, train operator Virgin CrossCountry named locomotive 47807 Lion of Vienna in Lofthouse's honour at Bolton station. Career statistics

International goals
Scores and results list England's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Lofthouse goal. Honours

Player
Bolton Wanderers
FA Cup: 1957–58; runner-up: 1952–53
FA Charity Shield: 1958

Individual
FWA Footballer of the Year: 1952–53

References

External links
'The Cup Comes Home' - 1958 newsreel of <mask> Lofthouse in Bolton, Lancashire
The FA England Profile
Daily Telegraph Obituary
Guardian Obituary
BBC Obituary

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English Football League players
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English Football League representative players
First Division/Premier League top scorers
English Football Hall of Fame inductees
England international footballers
1954 FIFA World Cup players
English football managers
Bolton Wanderers F.C. managers
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
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<mask> (; born 26 December 1955) is an unapprehended Indian terrorist, gangster and drug kingpin from Dongri, Mumbai. He reportedly heads the Indian organised crime syndicate, D-Company, which he founded in Mumbai in the 1970s. <mask> is wanted on the charges of terrorism, murder, extortion, targeted killing, drug trafficking and various other cases. He was designated as a global terrorist in 2003 by India and the United States, with a reward of US$25 million on his head for his believed role in the 1993 Bombay bombings. In 2011, he was named number three on "The World's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives" by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Forbes, though he has since been dropped from both lists. Recently, the Pakistani government in order to avoid FATF sanctions, listed <mask> and 87 others in the sanction list. He has been previously reported to be living in Karachi, Pakistan, though the Government of Pakistan denies it.In 2020, the Indian government sold off <mask>'s six properties in his ancestral village in Ratnagiri district in coastal Konkan in Maharashtra. The government organized the e-auction of his properties under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act (SAFEMA), 1976. In November 2017 as well, Dawood's three properties including the famous Rounaq Afroz Restaurant, also known as Delhi Zaika was also auctioned off by the government. Early life
<mask> <mask> was born on 26 December 1955 in a Konkani Muslim family in Khed in Maharashtra, India. His father, <mask>, worked as a head constable with the Mumbai Police and his mother, Amina Bi, was a homemaker. He lived in the Zadgaon area of Dongri and attended Ahmed Sailor High School from which he dropped out. Criminal career
<mask> started his career in crime by engaging in fraud, robbery and petty crimes in his early teens and later joined the gang of Baashu Dada, a local don.He later split from the gang and created his own gang with his elder brother Shabir <mask> in the late 1970s. After Shabir was killed by the rival Pathan gang, he became the sole boss of his gang, known as the D-Company. He was then chiefly involved in gold smuggling, real estate, extortion and drug trafficking. He fled India to Dubai in 1986 after being wanted by the Mumbai Police for the murder of Samad Khan. In the following years he further expanded his gang with the help of his second-in-command Chhota Rajan, with his gang having over 5000 members and bringing in tens of crores of rupees in revenue annually in the early 1990s. He was named by the Indian government as one of the masterminds in the 1993 Mumbai Attacks. Following the attacks he fled Dubai for Karachi, where he is said to be living to this day.The United States Department of the Treasury designated <mask> as a terrorist as part of its international sanctions program, effectively forbidding US financial entities from working with him and seizing assets believed to be under his control. The Department of Treasury keeps a fact sheet on <mask> which contains reports of his syndicate having smuggling routes from South Asia, the Middle-East and Africa shared with and used by terrorist organization al-Qaeda. The fact sheet also said that <mask>'s syndicate is involved in large-scale shipment of narcotics in the United Kingdom and Western Europe. He is also believed to have had contacts with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden. In the late 1990s, <mask> traveled to Afghanistan under the Taliban's protection. The syndicate has consistently aimed to destabilise India through riots, terrorism, civil disobedience and pumping fake Indian currency notes into the country. India Today reported that <mask> provided the logistics for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.Presently, <mask>'s criminal activities are terror funding, drug trafficking, gunrunning, extortion and money laundering. He has also heavily invested in real estate in Karachi, Dubai and India. <mask> is believed to control much of the hawala system, which is the very commonly used unofficial system for transferring money and remittances outside the view of official agents. <mask> was linked to the financing of increasing attacks in Gujarat by Lashkar-e-Taiba. In 2006, the government of India handed over to Pakistan, a list of 38 most wanted criminals including <mask>. His crime syndicate spreads across Asia, Europe and Africa, with over 40% of its earnings coming from India. 1993 Bombay bombings

<mask> is widely believed to have masterminded the March 1993 bombings in Bombay.In 2003, the Indian and United States governments declared <mask> a "Global Terrorist." The Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani described it as a major development. <mask> is currently on India's "Most Wanted List". In a public discourse in June 2017, Ram Jethmalani confirmed that after the Bombay blasts, <mask> <mask> had called him from London, saying that he was prepared to come to India and stand trial, on the condition that he should not be subjected to any third degree treatment from the police. Jethmalani had conveyed this to Sharad Pawar, but the politicians in power did not agree to this proposal. As per Jethmalani, their refusal to allow <mask>'s return was due to their fears that he would expose their secrets. Location
<mask> is previously assumed to be living in Pakistan and then in the United Arab Emirates.India says he has shifted to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Indian sources add that "Inter-Services Intelligence appeared extremely wary of the new Indo-US cooperation to fight terrorism." On 5 May 2015 MP Haribhai Chaudhary informed the Lok Sabha (the lower house of India's Parliament) that the whereabouts of <mask> were unknown. However, on 11 May, Rajnath Singh, the then Home Minister of India, told the parliament to get public support that <mask> was in Pakistan and he will bring him back to India. According to claims of Indian news media Times Now on 22 August 2015, <mask> was in Karachi, Pakistan. According to said media corporation, they had conversation with a woman in Karachi on August 22, 2015. Transcripts of conversations which were published on the news agency's website, in one conversation she said that she is <mask>'s wife and "he is sleeping", while in the second conversation she said that there was no one by that name known to her.According to a dossier prepared by India in August 2015, to be handed over to Pakistan, <mask> has nine residences in Pakistan and has three Pakistani passports which he frequently uses to travel. On 22 August 2020, Pakistan issued two notifications sanctioning key terrorist figures. In it, three addresses of <mask> <mask> were listed "White House, Near Saudi Mosque, Clifton" in Karachi, Pakistan; in addition to "House Nu 37 - 30th Street - defence, Housing Authority, Karachi" and "Palatial bungalow in the hilly area of Noorabad in Karachi". Pakistan denied it was admitting he was in Pakistan, stating the notifications only contained what was listed in the list of sanctioned individuals and the entities belonging to the United Nations. Search for <mask> <mask>
He was third on Forbes's The World's 10 Most Wanted list from 2010 until it stopped publishing the list in 2011, and is designated a "global terrorist". Many attempts have been made to locate <mask> by the Indian intelligence agencies, Research and Analysis Wing and Intelligence Bureau (IB), ever since he went into hiding. His location has been frequently traced to Karachi, Pakistan, a claim which the Pakistani authorities have frequently denied.The claims were further established in August 2015, when a phone call made to his home by an Indian television channel, Times Now, was answered by his wife, who confirmed his presence at their home in Karachi. The Indian intelligence agencies immediately prepared a dossier of <mask> which included evidence of his location in Karachi, among other evidence. It was to be presented at the National Security Agency-level talks between the two countries in the same month, which was however, called off due to political reasons. In an interview with India Today, Chhota Rajan, a former aide of <mask>, who he later fell out with in 1992, said that, "He [<mask>] does travel out of Pakistan once in a while but Karachi is his base." Chhota Rajan vs <mask> <mask> Rajan is believed to have assisted intelligence agencies in getting a low down on the activities of the D-Company and its members by using his intimate knowledge of the criminal  and its operations from his experience. To reinforce his reputation as a patriotic gangster don, Chhota Rajan threatened to brutally murder those accused of engineering the 1993 Mumbai bombings. Saleem ‘Kurla’ in April 1998 followed by Mohammad Jindran in June 1998 and Majeed Khan on 1 March 1999 were shot dead.The Shiv Sena, which ruled Maharashtra in a coalition with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 1994 to 1999, is speculated to have sympathized with Chhota Rajan. It is reported that selective police action against the <mask> Sena administration and its subsequent decline through encounter killings helped strengthen Chhota Rajan's position in the underworld. This is similar to how <mask> <mask> himself had benefitted from the 1980s police campaign against the Pathans. The Shiv Sena laid bare its affection for Chhota Rajan in an editorial in the Saamna newspaper, its mouthpiece, edited by Bal Thackeray. The editorial heaved a sigh of relief, attributing Chhota Rajan's survival to "good fortune" resulting from divine grace. The  Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was believed to be behind the attempted assassination of Chhota Rajan. In February 2010, alleged Chhota Rajan associates gunned down Nepali media baron Jamim Shah point blank in broad daylight as he was driving to his residence on a public road.Shah ostensibly had links with <mask> <mask> and was the mastermind of a racket producing counterfeit Indian currency within Nepal. His anti-Indian criminal activities had rankled the Indian government for more than a decade and half prior. Family
In 2006, <mask>'s daughter, Mahrukh <mask>, married Junaid Miandad, the son of Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad. In 2011, his daughter Mehreen, 24, married Ayub, a Pakistani - American. His son Moin married Saniya, daughter of a London-based businessman on 25 September 2011. Several of his family members, including his brother, Iqbal, live in Mumbai. In popular culture
<mask> and his syndicate D-Company have been linked to the financing of the Bollywood film industry.A number of Bollywood studios and films were financed by D-Company in the 1980s and 1990s. <mask> was linked to a number of celebrities during that time, including the beauty pageant contestant Anita Ayub and the Bollywood actress Mandakini. D-Company is also known for extortion and threats targeted towards Bollywood producers and celebrities, and was involved in the murders of Bollywood producers Javed Siddique and Gulshan Kumar. Vijay Maurya portrayed him in the film Black Friday(2004), directed by Anurag Kashyap. The 2002 film Company is loosely based on D-Company's activities, and its sequel (prequel to events in the movie), the 2005 film D, as well as Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007), the 2010 film Once Upon a Time in Mumbai and 2013 film D-Day. The 2013 movie Shootout at Wadala is based on the rise of the D-Company. The titular antagonist in the 2016 Indian action-drama film, Dongri Ka Raja, is based on <mask> and is portrayed by Gashmeer Mahajani.The film Haseena Parkar (2017) is a biographical crime film based on his sister, Haseena Parkar. The 2018 video game Hitman 2 features a Mumbai crime lord active in the movie industry called "Dawood Rangan" as a target, presumably as a reference to <mask> himself. Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia and Byculla to Bangkok are non-fiction books by former Indian investigative journalist Hussain Zaidi. They trace the evolution of the Mumbai mafia. Shootout at Wadala is based on Dongri to Dubai. See also

 List of fugitives from justice who disappeared
 Organised crime in India
 Tiger Memon
 Yakub Memon
Chhota Shakeel
Chhota Rajan

References

External links
 At Home In Exile
 BBC Profile on <mask>
 Mumbai's Mafia War

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1993 Bombay bombings
Businesspeople from Mumbai
Confidence tricksters
Crime in Maharashtra
Crime in the United Arab Emirates
Criminals from Mumbai
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Fugitives wanted on counterfeiting charges
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Indian counterfeiters
Indian drug traffickers
Indian expatriates in Pakistan
Indian expatriates in the United Arab Emirates
Indian crime bosses
Indian money launderers
Indian smugglers
Konkani Muslims
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