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...occupation. They shredded, burned and even machine-gunned portraits of Saddam Hussein and Iraqi flags. A band of youths used a sledgehammer to demolish a sign marking the REPUBLIC OF IRAQ MINISTRY OF EDUCATION IN THE DISTRICT OF KUWAIT. Others spat on Iraqi bank notes, the only legal tender under Saddam's rule, and tossed them into a bonfire...
...presidential decree, 50-ruble and 100-ruble bank notes (a 100-ruble note is worth anywhere from $5 to $160) are no longer legal tender in the U.S.S.R. In effect, many people's savings have been confiscated by the government under these provisions...
REMEMBRANCE. Amid the turmoil of Belfast, two elderly people meet at a cemetery and form a Protestant-Catholic romance -- tender and proper and doomed by "the troubles." Quiet and exquisitely acted, this touching off- Broadway drama features the lovable Malachy McCourt and the unforgettable Aideen O'Kelly, perhaps the finest unsung actress in North America...
...younger brother Marty, a sophomore in Winthrop House, is no stranger to winning, either. At the tender age of eight, his mother--herself a squash and tennis player--found him a squash coach. When the natural athlete turned 11, he entered and won his first tournament. Within a year, he had attained a national ranking of third for the 14-and-under category (and he was Virginia's top-ranked tennis player). When he was 16, he was number one. When he was 17, he was number one. When he was 18, he was number one. and last year...
...posterity with a completion that few later artists could rival. They have the subtlest quality of propaganda: they make you forget that they are propaganda. If we think of Charles as the cultivated king par excellence, it is largely thanks to Van Dyck. There cannot be a more tender and intimate royal portrait than his effigy of the couple in conversation in a rocky landscape, their bonding signified by, among other things, their dress -- he in pink slashed silk with pale gray showing beneath, she in the same gray with pink ribbons and laces; he giving her an olive twig...