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...Cambridge License Commission, would have imposed bureaucratic procedures and requirements for the cabs' condition that many drivers have called excessive. It would also create a Taxi Commission of drivers, owner/drivers, frequent taxi passengers and city officials that would mediate disputes and address complaints. A further regulation would have forbidden the creation of monopolies...
...national parliament, or Diet. But Koreans have no such democratic outlets. Kim Dae Jung, the country's most famous dissident, is barred from all political activity, and has been under frequent house arrest since returning from U.S. exile in 1985. Even left-wing books and pamphlets are officially forbidden...
...with particular novelty or innovation. So far as contemporary novels go, the plot is largely predictable. It follows the protagonist, Sibiya, from a Zula reservation to his enrollment in school, to expulsion after participation in anti-apartheid riots, to his progressive obsession with Veronica at a beach, to forbidden copulation in her bungalow, to discovery, trial and sentencing. There are few surprises in the novel, and certain scenes seem like clips from the evening news in America. Literary critics who concentrate on text at the expense of content would hardly be impressed...
...scattered areas of the globe: Afghanistan, Angola, Kampuchea. But the contras cannot carry on their rebellion without continued U.S. assistance. The Tower report shows the extent to which North, Poindexter and the CIA went, in circumventing the law, to slip arms to them during a period when Congress had forbidden any direct or indirect U.S. military assistance...
...spiritual needs of the parishioners of Christ Church in Maidstone, a small town in southeast England. She baptizes babies, conducts funerals, comforts the sick in their homes and in hospital beds, and leads her congregation in prayer in the small, modern brick church. But as a woman, she is forbidden to celebrate the rite of Holy Communion for her flock of 40 parishioners. That central act of worship can be performed only by male clerics in the Church of England, who occasionally neglect even to show up for services. Says Williams: "If I don't have someone there on Sundays...