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...made an unsuccessful bid to be elected President of Iran. Ghotbzadeh remained defiant until the very end. In a message smuggled out of prison before his death, he declared: "I want the record to be clear that I saw the light and tried as best I could to undo the damage I had done in terms of supporting the satanic regime of the mullahs...
...deny that the results of Talaat Pasha's orders were tragic. However, the events that occurred more than 60 years ago, under the aegis of the Ottomans, should not be avenged today. Turkey has long since put behind her the evils of her empire. Terrorist acts will not undo what was done, nor will they result in an independent state for the Armenian minority in Turkey...
...this shameful catastrophe, this disaster that has befallen the civilians [of Lebanon] and this threat to international peace. I believe the current leadership [of the Palestinians] has lost the justification for its existence. Out of this whole situation will perhaps come a new leadership that will be able to undo the disaster in Beirut, one that will be able to take over from the old leadership now that it has been defeated and discredited...
...raising a broad range of other taxes. They are doing this to make up for revenue lost to the recession and reduced handouts from Washington. Says Stephen Meyer, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: "It looks like rising state and other taxes will virtually undo the federal tax benefit." Adds Robert Rossana, an economics professor at Pennsylvania State University: "The net benefit of the federal tax cut will be very small for the large majority of U.S. taxpayers. It would take only a little bit of action by state and local bodies to wipe...
...small brown paper bag. Inside, the police found heroin-evidence instrumental in Ross's conviction. An appeals court reversed that conviction, and last July the Supreme Court arrived at the same conclusion in a similar case. The Justices had said then that police could not constitutionally undo the opaque plastic wrapped around two bricks of marijuana stashed in the trunk of a California...