You'd think there'd be more edge to country music's biggest outlaw, but maybe not when he's in love and with director James Mangold pushing that side of the story.

NPR: 'Walk the Line' Walks a Straight Line

Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, a tall, wiry bandit with his trademark handlebar moustache, came to be considered the country's most ruthless and daring outlaw.

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The proposed law has intensified a decade-long movement to outlaw capital punishment - at a time when the country is experiencing a surge of civic activism ahead of the April 13 parliamentary elections.

CNN: Death, Be Not Proud

News of the guidelines comes as the country's parliament debates a controversial bill to outlaw the promotion of homosexuality among children, which some campaigners see as a veiled attack on gay rights.

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Turkey has serious problems of its own, starting with a court case that threatens to outlaw the ruling Justice and Development (AK) party for threatening the country's secular order.

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More than 130 years after he was hanged, Australia's most notorious outlaw is being buried, as old tensions resurface about what he really means to the country.

BBC: Ned Kelly: The outlaw who divides a nation

But in the past 15 years, despite (or perhaps because of) the emperor and the government's best efforts, bass fishing has become the new Elvis in Japan, especially among the country's youth, where the sport has tapped into all of the outlaw, counter-culture character (and growth) that skateboarding has in the U.S. Japan-based tackle manufacturers, like Yozuri, Shimano and Daiwa , now supply bass anglers all over the world.

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