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...referendum on political and economic reform within the island’s Communist framework. A clause in the regime’s constitution purportedly allows citizens to organize a national referendum if they can gather 10,000 signatures, and Cuba’s opposition leaders had been able to collect over 11,000 for the Varela petition, which they presented to the National Assembly in May 2002. Unfortunately, the dissident project now appears to have suffered the same fate as so many other challenges to Fidel Castro’s repressive reign. The shelving of the petition roughly coincided with...
...says. Hamed was spared because of his age, and his sons escaped the punishment because they were all away, in Basra. Hamed says it was five months before the young men of Khardeh returned. In the meantime, the womenfolk and old men had to tend the crops and collect the harvest. "It was a terrible, terrible time," Hamed says, squatting on a carpet in his furnitureless living room. "It's because we know what war is like that we don't want it to happen again...
STEPHEN BOESEL: The really strong negative related to Microsoft is, it almost guarantees that the proposed dividend-tax cut is going to be pared. There is no way they will let Bill Gates collect $100 million each year tax free...
...would be well advised to repay it fast because Jianjun charges interest rates of up to 5.7% a month. It's all legal and above board. Although regulators and law enforcement officials in the past have cracked down on underground lenders (loan sharks tend to use gangsters to collect unpaid debts), the government currently allows pawnshops to operate because without them, small-business owners would have almost nowhere else to turn. "Banks make it difficult and confusing to get a loan," Jianjun says with a smile. "Our business is booming...
PART 1.The Lord's Prayor, The Customary Chant"O gladsome radiance" (Vespers), A. Kastalsky"When I, an unrighteous man" (Lent), A. Malashkin"Today a Virgin" (Christmas Collect Hymn), G. Lvovsky"A Mercy of Peace: we praise Thee" (at the Consecration: Liturgy), V. Kalinnikoff"Let all mortal flesh" (Great Saturday), Archpriest TurtchaninoffThe Creed, A. Gretchaninoff"Hear my prayer, O Lord" from Psalm CII), A. ArkhangelskyPART II."Bless the Lord, O my Soul" (Liturgy), M. Ippolitoff-Ivanoff.The Cherubimic Hymn (The Great Entrance at the Liturgy), P. Tchaikovsky"My soul shall exault in the Lord" Liturgy), M. Balakireff"God is with us" (Christmas...