Word: fiefdoms
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...restrictions now, when residents of 29 Garden St. have been eating anywhere in the Quad all year? According to Currier dining hall officials, the real answer seems to lie with Currier House Master William Graham's distaste for the serfs of the Harvard community dining en masse in his fiefdom...
...leaving it up to the house master is precisely why all this happened in the first place. Last spring we said that Liem should resign and make way for a house master who cared more about the interests of Dunster students than protecting his own fiefdom. If anything Liem has now made the situation worse by subjecting all tutors to his arbitrary discrimination...
...faithfully observed during his nearly 30 years of absolute power, a tenure marked by the torture and killing of his opponents and corruption that has funneled much of his nation's wealth into his private pocket. Now 62 and in robust health, Mobutu governs from his native fiefdom of Gbadolite, a jungle village close to the equator. Surrounded at all times by heavily armed troops, he remains impervious to the growing clamor among 35 million Zairians for an end to his disastrously autocratic rule...
...comes from -- or even whether it is from al-Andalus at all. It may equally well be Egyptian, North African or Iranian, though the Pisans themselves (who installed it on the facade of their cathedral) believed it was war booty from their conquest of Majorca, once an Arab fiefdom. Severely holed by bullets in the 19th century, it remains an overwhelmingly authoritative image -- rigid, swollen, and yet almost liquid in its linear rhythms, as in the rhyme between the profile curve of its breast and the serpentine edges of its wings: a guardian figure left stranded when the culture around...
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...