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...response he apparently elicited. Someone within our community decided that the best way to let Peninsula know that he or she disapproves of its inflammatory and overblown rhetoric was to tape a swastika to the door of one of its members. Apparently, linking Padilla to the genocidal reign of the Nazis was seen as an appropriate and effective way of pointing out how oppressive and irrational his beliefs are. The only thing more amazing than how narrow-minded and intolerant some individuals are is how those who oppose them can inadvertently adopt their worst qualities...
...which Andreas and his family have dominated for 30 years. It appears unlikely that Michael Andreas will ever succeed his father. "Even if this is not the end of ADM," says a close business associate of Dwayne's, "this could well be the end of the Andreas reign...
...aide, he "must not hear their voices." Meanwhile, men were given a month to grow beards, and the photographing of human figures--as well as certain buildings, military operations and "sensitive incidents"--was forbidden. Amnesty International claimed 1,000 people were jailed in what it called a reign of terror...
...citizens of Constantinople had it easy when it came to foreign policy. Each day, many of them passed by a column near the Hagia Sophia on which rested an equestrian statue of Constantine, the first Roman emperor to reign in their city. The Emperor's arm extended east, complementing the famous inscription on the column: "From this direction will come the one who will undo...
...more than 1,000 years after his reign had ended, Constantine's prophesy was fulfilled when the Ottoman sultan sacked the ancient capital and conquered its once-glorious empire...