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...called on [Western countries] to desist from deliberately encouraging births through pro-natal subsidies for Palestinian ‘refugees,’ which guarantee that Gazans will remain both radicalized and dependent,” Kramer wrote on his blog, entitled “Sandbox...
...Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "There is now impeccable evidence the conspiracy was planned in Pakistan. It was executed with the active connivance of people who are still roaming around freely in Pakistan. Therefore, I respectfully request the world community to use all its influence on Pakistan to desist from that sort of behavior." Those are strong words coming from the normally reticent Indian leader, and a signal of a harder line in the second year after Mumbai...
...order to have a fixed route from Point A to Point B, go into the City of Cambridge, and charge a fee, you need a jitney license,” said Scali. Curreri said that Entertainment Tours had a bus license from the state, but received a desist order from the city of Cambridge...
Despite the complaints, Curreri said that Entertainment Tours’ Cambridge-to-New York line, prior to the city’s desist order, had been popular among students and would run six buses a day during peak times...
...especially valuable. There's one moral in Founding, however, that Beijing probably did not intend. Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's son, is briefing his father about his fight to rid the KMT of corruption and injustice. Chiang praises his son's idealism - and gently advises him to desist so as not to undermine the KMT at a critical juncture in the civil war. "If you go ahead," says Chiang, "you lose the party." But, the Generalissimo quietly adds, "if you don't, you lose China." That's a message China's present leaders would do well to heed...