Word: fiefdom
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Muslim political aspirations have found a focus in the Islamic Renaissance Party, which held its founding congress in 1990 in the Russian city of Astrakhan, once the historic capital of a Muslim Tatar fiefdom. "Our party's goals are similar to those of the Iranian revolution," explains Moscow-based spokesman Vali-Akhmet Sadur. "We stand for tradition." Before the union broke apart, the party could operate openly only in Russia, but it now has chapters in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan that have emerged from the underground...
Like all feudal organizations, Harvard's judicial fiefdom doesn't care about its effect on neighboring areas outside its own jurisdiction--like the rest of America...
...side of the Atlantic, workers at the Daily Mirror expressed dismay and anger after it was revealed that Captain Bob, as the swashbuckling Maxwell was dubbed years ago by the British humor magazine Private Eye, had looted their pension fund and treasury in order to prop up his personal fiefdom. The transactions, which took place in the months before he died, are being probed by British authorities. Last Friday SFO agents raided the family headquarters at Maxwell House in search of documents relating to the missing pension funds. Still, bemoans Ossie Fletcher, the former editor of the Mirror Group...
Meantime, Neuharth has created a truly baronial fiefdom at a swank building across the street from the headquarters of Gannett and USA Today. Renovations for the building (carved stone staircases, suede-covered file cabinets) cost $15 million. A $5 million high-tech conference center on the roof is under construction...
Welcome to Bobigny, fiefdom of the French Communist Party and not about to apologize. Will they rebaptize the streets and dismantle the monument to Vladimir Ilyich? Mayor Georges Valbon grins broadly and shakes his head. "I was suckled on the milk of the October Revolution," he says. "Lenin was a symbol of hope for French workers and intellectuals." With his monogrammed shirts and rough-hewn charm, Valbon, 67, has ruled blue-collar Bobigny, a northeastern suburb of Paris, for two decades, winning by 66% in the past mayoral election. "Communism is still on the horizon," he contends. "We build...