Dr Kabamba's hospital is healthier than it was during the war, or under Mobutu Sese Seko, the leopardskin-hatted crook who ruled Congo until his overthrow in 1997.

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Mr Atherton disliked Alison Turnbull and blamed her for his arrest in 2008 following a family row, the hearing in Crook, County Durham, was told.

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Mr Seddon told the court he was the first out of the vehicle and used a crook lock to smash open a window before helping to free his father and nephew before firefighters arrived and rescued his mother.

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The man called him a "crook, " says a fellow grocery wholesaler who came to his defense.

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And though there is no suspicion that Mr Zedillo is a crook as some of his predecessors were, his reforms have not gone to the heart of the system.

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Playing a mean, stupid man, Hoffman probably the most intelligent actor of his generation is terrifyingly precise about the human deficiencies that make a great, legendary crook.

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Butterworth captained Norwich in the early 1990s, and returned to the club to team up with his former team-mates, manager Bryan Gunn and first-team coach Ian Crook, in February.

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