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...sense of civic security, Dalla Chiesa led a highly visible and regular lifestyle. He could be seen many an afternoon, cheat out, in lightly colored tailored suit and shades boldly swaggering down the streets of Palermo--the Gary Cooper of Sicily. He felt sure no one would dare strike such a popular figure, and thus made no attempt to hide his whereabouts...
...income will go up, of course; the only question is how fasts. One suggestion has been to hasten the 15 percent increase currently scheduled between 1985 and 1990. Another is to eliminate the exception from Social Security that some groups enjoy. Neither Democrats nor Republicans dare to suggest a more surgical solution--phasing out Social Security and replacing it with a welfare program that targets its aid to the people who need it. And so this political monster will grow bigger and bigger, and we will keep on feeding...
...West its first description of a Russian ruler: "He surpasses all the monarchs of the whole world. He uses his authority as much over ecclesiastics as laymen, and holds unlimited control over the lives and property of all his subjects: not one of his counselors has sufficient authority to dare to oppose him." Was he describing a Tsar or a Stalin? The power alone is not unfathomable. The country itself seems both to seek subjugation and to struggle against it. It takes a special kind of oppressor to succeed in such a place. Like Brezhnev, he must appear to have...
...that time, if you have the courage your newspaper should [stand]...against the government. But we didn't dare at that time. They would have put you in jail if you in jail if you did that," she remembers...
...siege has also created a chance to rebuild the old city center, which was reduced to rubble during the 1975-76 civil war. By cleaning up this section, Hariri hopes to bring life back to a no man's land that most people in Beirut did not dare visit for seven years. According to the governor of Beirut, Mitri Nammar, work on restoring the heart of the city will begin as soon as officials are satisfied that all land mines have been removed from the area. The estimated cost: as high as $3 billion. "The destruction has opened...