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...Roman Saturnalia, these revels were explosions of license and merry-making, and featured drinking and debauchery, houses decked with laurels and evergreens, feasting, bonfires and an exchange of presents. Christian missionaries, finding that they could not get converts to refrain from the festive activities, pleaded with Rome to give the festivals a Christian excuse. In 352 A.D., Pope Julius I decreed Christmas December...
...issue was the future of the second largest bank on Mitterrand's hit list, the dynamic Compagnie Financière de Paris et des Pays-Bas (Paribas), with assets of $52.2 billion in 1980. After his election last May, Mitterrand expected companies and banks targeted for nationalization to refrain from transferring assets out of the country. But he never made it illegal for them to do so. Seizing on that loophole, Paribas reduced its stake in its Swiss subsidiary, Paribas Suisse S.A., from 72% to less than 50%, thus allowing other interests to gain control. While this was going...
...extensive research and meticulous structure, amusement derived from the anthology will be shortlived. The book is not a likely conversation piece; being able to make critical comparisons to the original will win you few friends. But the anthology does read well. When you buy this book, try to refrain from reading it out loud or chuckling to yourself. It may be harder than you think...
...unreasonableness. The most amazing thing is the fact that the Western world sometimes believes this stuff, while it should rather realize that "compromise" and "middle course" are the very nature of a phenomenon called Solidarity. In other words, the compromise is represented by the very fact that people refrain from violently overthrowing their repressive government--a government which nobody elected and nobody accepts. But apart from this simple fact, the West seems also to forget that in certain matters there can be no compromise. There is no "middle course" in the matters of truth, justice, safety of each individual: hence...
...This is the month of blood. Khomeini will fall." Chanting that refrain, throngs of young men and women opposed to the repressive theocratic regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini began marching in the streets of Tehran one morning last week. Acting on government orders to "exterminate the heathens," members of the Islamic Guards quickly went after the protesters. But the Guards were trapped by leftist Mujahedin-e Khalq guerrillas who had positioned themselves on rooftops along the streets. The government conceded that 36 Islamic Guards were killed in the ensuing battle, which raged over a 6-sq.-mi. area for more...