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...they wend their way through the kaleidoscopic landscape of "Terra Incognita," a territorial hybrid of the 19th century African Congo and the Land of the Blue Meanies from the Beatles' acid-crazed 1967 animation, "Yellow Submarine." This land is to be imagined rather than perceived: at the playwright's behest the set is relatively sparse...
...most importantly, Iraq's forces are at the behest of perhaps the globe's most ruthless dictator, a man who no doubt considers comparisons to Adolf Hitler both a compliment and a challenge...
...Rudman resigned as attorney general and four years later ran for a Senate seat. Thomson reluctantly went along with Rudman's advice to appoint Souter to the job. Over the next two years Souter became involved in several controversial cases, largely at Thomson's behest. In 1978 Souter's staff defended the Governor in a suit to prevent him from lowering the American and state flags over state buildings on Good Friday. In another Thomson crusade, Souter's staff unsuccessfully defended the state's attempts to prosecute residents who for religious reasons covered up the state motto -- "Live Free...
Passed in 1956 at the behest of the powerful West German trade unions, the closing law has resisted almost every effort to liberalize it. Last year Bonn managed to push through an optional extension of business hours on most Thursday nights, to 8:30 p.m. For weeks afterward, people went around saying it would cost Helmut Kohl the next national election -- and, who knows, they may be right...
...needle program or even research into whether that approach is effective. Only an educational campaign to encourage addicts to sterilize needles with bleach has federal funding. And that $50 million program, a minuscule part of the $2.6 billion annual federal AIDS budget, was nearly cut this year at the behest of conservative Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina...