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...only after World War I, when the holiday was expanded beyond honoring fallen Civil War soldiers to recognizing Americans who died fighting in all wars. It was also renamed Memorial Day. Some critics say that by making the holiday more inclusive, however, the original focus - on, as Frederick Douglass put it, the moral clash between "slavery and freedom, barbarism and civilization" - has been lost. Most Southern states still recognize Confederate Memorial Day as an official holiday, and many celebrate it on the June birthday of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy. But Texas, for one, observes the holiday...
...government's response to charges of journalistic harassment has been to ask for patience. "Journalists need to put everything into perspective," says Webster Shamu, Zimbabwe's Information Minister and a Mugabe appointee. "When [the coalition] started, we first needed to study and learn to trust each other. We have achieved that, and we are now looking at the problems our people are facing. It would be wrong to say the first 100 days were wasted. They were 100 days of serious hard work...
...Since BA does business in almost every major country in the world, it is not a bad barometer of both consumer and business spending, at least the discretionary parts. If people cannot afford to fly they are unlikely to be aggressive consumers. If enterprises will not put their employees on airplanes, the recession is still likely to still be hurting corporate margins...
...There are a large number of community banks that were very active in commercial real estate lending," says Robert Hartheimer, a Washington-based banking-industry consultant. "To the extent that the economy does not recover for a while, these types of loans are going to put a lot of stress on our nation's smaller banks...
...Although images of Rakhmon pictured alone will stay put, crews taking down images of local politicians standing or sitting next to the leader have their work cut out for them, with hundreds of enormous billboards casting shadows over roadways and blanketing buildings across the country. They might soon wish that all they had to do was pull down a rotating golden statue...