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...tablecloth crowd, while the Pont des Arts footbridge spanning the Seine is a hot spot for more liquid picnics. American Mary Gallagher, a longtime resident, has been throwing champagne-and-crudités gatherings there - "the prettiest vista in Paris" - for years. Technically, picnicking in the city center is forbidden, notes a town hall spokesperson, but in practice it's tolerated in small groups and even large ones are commonplace. "We've had up to 100 people at a time, but the authorities are very tolerant," Gallagher says. "The police come by and smile. They know we'll leave...
...that the Ottoman Sultan would be gracious because of their inaction. They were wrong. The treatment they received was the same as any other Christian town that submitted voluntarily to the Sultan’s rule; they had to pay special taxes, their walls were torn down, they were forbidden to carry weapons and they were forbidden to build any new churches. The Genoese, like the French, thought that they would be treated differently because they were a different kind of Westerner, but the Sultan did not heed such distinctions—to him they were all the same...
...child or their husband or their mother didn't lose their life in vain, and that good will come out of this, and that Iraq will be able to build itself and build a democracy and freedom. We already see the stories from Afghanistan--the idea that girls were forbidden to be educated or women couldn't leave their home without a male relative. The difference in the lives of those people is huge...
...Then, in 1992, Fischer resurfaced to play a rematch with Spassky in Yugoslavia, where Americans were forbidden from doing business because of its government's support of Serbian aggression in Bosnia...
...provide shelter and legal aid to North Korean refugees and make it easier for them to seek asylum in the U.S. Another $16 million would go to nonprofit groups working for change in the North through methods such as smuggling in radios so that citizens can listen to forbidden Voice of America broadcasts. Aides to lawmakers working on the North Korea issue say there is at least a 50-50 chance the Senate could adopt the House bill and vote it into law next month...