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Ferguson says that the U.S. has taken Britain’s role but failed to acknowledge the empire that came with it. Empire, Rudyard Kipling once wrote, is a “global burden.” It is that burden that the United States must now accept and wield—American imperialism has to be about more than the golden arches and Britney Spears...
...which have become prominent elements of his work. Focusing on issues such as intimacy, relationships, the importance of everyday tasks (such as meeting or eating) and self-awareness, many scholars have argued that Lee’s work shows influences from Eastern religion, although he is hesitant to accept this assertion...
...danger to their fellow students. Common sense dictates that students should put off optional plans of study that would bring them to SARS-affected nations. But if a student deems it necessary to travel to East Asia or Toronto for academic reasons—and is willing to accept the risks—it is not the University’s job to forbid their travel...
...State Department transgression, for Gingrich, is that its "invention of a quartet for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations defies everything the United States has learned about France, Russia, and the United Nations. After the bitter lessons of the last five months, it is unimaginable that the United States would voluntarily accept a system in which the UN, the European Union, and Russia could routinely outvote President Bush's positions by three...
...don’t believe for a second that the failure after Camp David exposed a fundamental clash [between the Israelis and Palestinians],” says Shikaki, “as I don’t accept the idea that the Palestinian national movement cannot reach peace agreements with Israel...