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...Hong Kong people are sophisticated, hardworking, and pragmatic. They understand the authorities should not bear all the blame for the territory's woes. All they want is the smallest sense that the government has a turnaround strategy, or is even prepared to admit how bad things are. All they want is to once again be able to believe in their leaders...
Maryann Martin presides over America's smallest tribe. Raised in Los Angeles in an African-American family, she knew little of her Indian ancestry until 1986, when at age 22 she learned that her mother had been the last surviving member of the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians. In 1991, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) certified Martin and her two younger brothers as members of the tribe. Federal recognition of tribal status opened the door for Martin and her siblings to qualify for certain types of government aid. And with it, a far more lucrative lure beckoned...
...taxes on cigarettes is a move that will unfairly hurt the low-income communities who are already suffering most from the terrible effects of cigarette addiction. Any tax on goods that are widely consumed at a flat rate make the biggest difference in the lives of those with the smallest incomes, but taxing cigarettes is particularly detrimental precisely because nicotine is an addictive substance. If a tax on soda were imposed, it would be easy enough for people to switch to drinking another beverage, but cigarettes have no “substitute good.” Those with higher incomes...
...invoke other Hollywood icons in the past. During the anti-Milosevic riots in October 2000, Micic and a female friend taunted the police by cruising Belgrade demonstrations in a car with "Thelma and Louise" inscribed on the hood. As a member of the Civic Alliance, one of the smallest parties within Serbia's 18-member ruling coalition, Micic was virtually unknown in Belgrade until she became a deputy speaker of parliament in late 2000. Her meteoric career has been fueled by luck as well as ambition. She became Speaker a year later, when Dragoljub Marsicanin, a Kostunica aide, was forced...
Seventeen of the original 18 bells currently occupy the Lowell tower. The smallest measures the span of a hand, while the largest, named “Mother Earth,” weighs a full 13 tons...