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...closely linked with the Union cause that many Southern states refused to celebrate it. They acquiesced only after World War I, when the holiday was expanded beyond honoring fallen Civil War soldiers to recognizing Americans who died fighting in all wars. It was also renamed Memorial Day. Some critics say that by making the holiday more inclusive, however, the original focus - on, as Frederick Douglass put it, the moral clash between "slavery and freedom, barbarism and civilization" - has been lost. Most Southern states still recognize Confederate Memorial Day as an official holiday, and many celebrate it on the June birthday...
...important, he said. Critics, however, argue that the Central Bank's exclusive authority doesn't give it creative license to invent new styles of currency that stray from the technical specifications laid out in the Monetary Law. "The government couldn't just start circulating cacao beans and say it's currency like the indigenous did," says economist Nestor Avendano. "They have to respect...
...problem in Nicaragua, according to Liberal Constitutional Party lawmaker Francisco Aguirre, is that most people don't know what the laws say, including the government. "In this country, we pass laws and we don't know what they say and we don't care," he says. "This is an outlaw country." Still, Aguirre predicts, the issue of the new currency and whether it's legal or not is a case of a "tempest in a teapot" - an issue that will fade away as soon as the inevitable next crisis comes around. (Read a story about Nicaragua's vampire problem...
...government's response to charges of journalistic harassment has been to ask for patience. "Journalists need to put everything into perspective," says Webster Shamu, Zimbabwe's Information Minister and a Mugabe appointee. "When [the coalition] started, we first needed to study and learn to trust each other. We have achieved that, and we are now looking at the problems our people are facing. It would be wrong to say the first 100 days were wasted. They were 100 days of serious hard work...
...what the government is touting as an effort to tackle the obsession with celebrity, some observers say could simply be the president's way of keeping local leaders from trying to up their status by basking in his reflected glory. Rakhmon, a former cotton farm boss whose prezident.tj website features nearly a dozen pictures of him on the homepage alone, led pro-communist forces against Islamist rebels during Tajikistan's civil war in the 1990s and became leader of the nation in 1992, a year after independence. The nation's longest-serving president, Rakhmon continues to command popular support, despite...