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...most pathetic stories in all of the Bible is the account of King Saul's downfall in the book of Samuel. Saul had disobeyed God's direct command by failing to annihilate Amalek completely. Saul captured alive the king of Amalek, Agag. Jewish tradition tells us that before the prophet Samuel hacked him to pieces with an axe, Agag was able to impregnate a woman, who would give birth to the beginning of a long line of enemies of Israel. Because of his blunder, the formerly promising Saul secured his place of ignominy in Jewish history...
Boston, like many cities and towns in the state, has raised property taxes to the 2 1/2 percent limit each year since the law was instituted, says Samuel R. Tyler, executive director of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau...
...investment firms has created a backlash on Main Street, which watched with mounting fury as Wall Street got rich through paper-shuffling deals that manipulated companies at the expense of workers and communities. "There's a lot of pent-up anger and disgust with behavior on Wall Street," says Samuel Hayes, an investment-banking professor at the Harvard Business School...
...Moscow Conservatory's yellow-and-white Great Hall was packed with notables, ranging from Raisa Gorbachev to Yevgeny Yevtushenko, when Rostropovich came striding out on stage, threw kisses in all directions and then raised his arms to begin. He had chosen a program full of sad messages: first Samuel Barber's elegiac Adagio for Strings; then Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony, which Rostropovich had performed at his last Moscow concert 16 years ago; then Shostakovich's anguished Fifth Symphony, written at the height of Stalin's purges in 1937. (In three subsequent concerts, two of them in Leningrad, Rostropovich would also...
Members of Liberia's Gio tribe have long suspected that President Samuel Doe, who belongs to the Krahn tribe, would like to eradicate their people. Lately their fears have been reinforced as Doe's troops moved into northern Nimba county, a Gio stronghold and hotbed of opposition to the government. The army's ostensible purpose is to rout a ragtag band of perhaps 200 insurgents, but the soldiers have exceeded that mandate, looting and burning towns and firing on Gio civilians...