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...remember that Britain fought the Crimean War with the Turks and aginst the Russians to safeguard European shipping rights in the Bosphorous--if they remember the Cirmean War. But most have probably forgotten that, however free Greece may have been in antiquity, it suffered many years under the Ottoman yoke...
...hard having two preachers for parents," says David, who feels the twin yoke of religion and strict parental supervision. David describes the biggest lesson he has learned from his parents. "Not to cuss or go to beer joints or girly bars. Well, they haven't told me not to go to girly bars, but they wouldn't like it. They don't like for us to do anything that a Christian wouldn't do. If I did that, they'd kill...
Defenders of congressional exemptions point out that legislators face special pressures: they often need to employ home-district personnel or friends of supporters. Stanley Brand, a former general counsel to the House, says Congress historically has not placed itself under the yoke of various laws to protect itself from inter-Government conflicts. Imagine, he says, the Justice Department using charges of job discrimination to harass unfriendly Congressmen. Besides, "the reality of going before the voters and seeking election should force Congressmen to behave," he says...
...lived their entire lives under occupation. The potential rock throwers -- those between 15 and 25 -- number 300,000. Poor, idle, infected with frustration, this embittered generation has little faith that its elders, including those who run the Arab states and the P.L.O., still have the will to remove the yoke of Israeli occupation...
...motive for helping the contras was to make a profit. If the Sandinistas are not overthrown, he wrote in a position paper forWalsh that he provided to TIME, "Central America will be lost and North America will cease to be a world power and eventually fall under the yoke of Communism." To Hull, Senate Subcommittee Chairman John Kerry and his colleagues are Communist dupes. "When you castrate our own intelligence service," he says, "politicians such as Kerry are helping...