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Under intensive cross-examination by WilliamHolman, who represented Perry, Rooney acknowledgedthat the department had submitted falseinformation on a sworn affidavit in order toobtain a search warrant for Perry's home...
...TUCSON, ARIZONA, LAST JULY, 76 HISPANIC IMMIGRANTS WERE sworn in as U.S. citizens. While the oath was administered in English, the surrounding ceremony was conducted entirely in Spanish. Last May, Florida's 13-member Dade County Commission unanimously repealed an English-only ordinance that banned the use of other languages in public meetings and most government publications...
Cairo -- Syrian President Hafez Assad has been refusing to negotiate the transfer of the Golan Heights from Israel to Syria until the U.N. lifts sanctions against Iraq. Saddam Hussein is Assad's sworn enemy, but Assad feels a growing isolation from his neighbors -- Iran, Turkey and Iraq -- and so is doing Iraq this favor. The Clinton Administration wants a Syrian-Israeli agreement on the Golan by the end of this year, and has initiated secret talks with Iraqi officials at the U.N. aimed at lifting the sanctions...
...save Xiaolou's life. Informed that heis to be Xiolou's best man at his wedding, thecostumed, stage-painted Dieyi looks more like abeautiful, jilted lover than a best man, theexpression on his face a perfect tale of betrayal.Xiaolou only exacerbates the situation byreferring to Dieyi as his "sworn brother" andsuggesting that they visit a brothel together,putting Dieyi through agonies to which Xiaolou isoblivous. Gong Li, who starred in "Raise the RedLantern," plays the manipulativeprostitute-turned-wife Juxian, whose charactercomes to control to some extent the weakenedXiaolou. The rivalry between Juxian and Dieyi forthe love of Xiaolou gives...
Since his election in 1989, the self-described "pragmatic idealist" has sought to persuade Clevelanders, from the white economic elite to the poorest blacks, that they have a mutual interest in the city's prosperity. One of the first calls White made after being sworn in was to Richard Pogue, a prominent white lawyer who headed the Greater Cleveland Growth Association. "I know you didn't support me," White told Pogue. "You know you didn't support me. But I'm the only mayor you'll have for four years. You're the only growth association I'll have...