Word: reigns
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...opposition leaders had been able to collect over 11,000 for the Varela petition, which they presented to the National Assembly in May 2002. Unfortunately, the dissident project now appears to have suffered the same fate as so many other challenges to Fidel Castro’s repressive reign. The shelving of the petition roughly coincided with the debut of Oliver Stone’s fawning documentary of Cuba’s 76-year-old ruler at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. A revolting bit of irony, to be sure, but one that supporters of Cuban freedom have sadly...
...EISL Championships still a month away, there is still plenty of time for Harvard to prepare for its next encounter with Princeton. Last year, the Crimson beat the Tigers at H-Y-Ps, but Princeton turned the tide at Easterns, bringing Harvard’s six-year Eastern reign to an abrupt halt...
During the genocidal reign of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot in the 1970s, 16,000 Cambodians were herded into Tuol Sleng prison. Only seven made it out, and just two of that group were still thought to be alive. But this month, a third Tuol Sleng survivor emerged. His name is Bo Meng, and he could provide key testimony against his former jailers if long-planned tribunals for the perpetrators of Cambodia's killing fields go forward. Last week, Bo, 61, told TIME how he endured 18 months in the death camp. His wife and children were killed...
...Billie also shared his wealth with tribe members, who last year received individual dividend checks of $36,000 from casino profits. And he took care of other Seminole leaders. Under his reign, each councilman had a discretionary fund of at least $5 million; Billie's was $15 million. More was available if needed, and it often was. One councilman ran through $57 million in less than four years...
...characteristically belligerent behavior has heightened security tensions in North Asia and lent fresh urgency to the question of how to reign him in. Iraq-obsessed U.S. diplomats, who would prefer Kim wait his turn as global bad guy, have chosen to cut off dialogue with North Korea, as well as 500,000 tons of heavy oil provided yearly under a 1994 accord. But the hard-line stance favored by Washington is worrisome to Japan and South Korea, who are within striking distance of North Korean missiles and artillery and fear Kim might act rashly if backed into a corner...