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...have had little effect on the treatment of its captives.The citizens of Pera, a Genoese colony just across the Golden Horn from Constantinople, viewed themselves as separate from their Byzantine neighbors. They saw no reason to become involved in their plight and engaged in shameful neutrality. They expected to reap rewards for this behavior, and they thought 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...
Still, the most shameful aspect of this entire ordeal is the way in which President Bush has attempted to reap political benefits from both sides of the issue. While publicly calling for an extension to the popular ban, with a wink and a nod to the gun lobby Bush has refused to lift a finger to persuade Congress. He prefers to blame Congress for their inaction, but the true blame lies with his own insincerity...
...John Gordon is a passionate student and educator who has chosen golf as his outlet for learning and teaching,” Schernecker said in a press release. “Our program will quickly reap the rewards of John’s skills and commitment to player improvement...and I am convinced that he will be a driving force in achieving our vision of becoming the best golf program in the Northeast...
...He’d become a partner if we’d enter into a corporate agreement and he’d be able to reap any benefits from the site,” Cameron Winklevoss said in May. “It wasn’t as if we told him to build this site and then would have said good-bye, get out....He never asked for compensation, but we would have been happy to pay for his services...
...anti-Semitism all he can do is affirm the republican values of equality and fraternity. But it's like pressing a button that doesn't work anymore." Especially in the socially underprivileged banlieues, where Jewish-Muslim tension is highest, the appeal to shared citizenship is more apt to reap mockery than reverence. "Being a citizen of France used to give everyone a kind of bulletproof vest, but now it's fallen off and we see each other as Jews, Arabs, whatever," Sebban says. Sebban tried Israel in the 1990s; he lasted four years. "It was a big disappointment," he says...