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...Navajo nation case comes at a critical juncture for the tribe, which uses its court to address legal issues while respecting the Navajo way--a unique combination of traditional tribal dispute resolution and Anglo-American judicial methods...
...three wars together, as Phillips does, and you see that they "constitute the central staircase of modern English-speaking history, not least the division into two great powers with pointedly different characteristics--not sister or brother nations, but cousins. However unforeseen, this duality proved to be the Anglo-American genius...
...should distinguish here between religious and cultural traditions. The latter are much more easily syncretized, with much less chance of causing insult or offense. South Asian culture is, in fact, an amalgam of all sorts of different constituent traditions. And Anglo-American culture has successfully managed to incorporate elements of South Asian culture in the past. The Beatles, for example, were influenced heavily by the music of the great sitar player, Ravi Shankar. We all know about the therapeutic powers of yoga--and, for better or worse, the teachings of Deepak Chopra. No Doubt's Gwen Stefani is oft-seen...
Churchill understandably exulted in the success of the D-day invasion when it came in 1944. By then it was the Russo-American rather than the Anglo-American nexus, however, that dominated the alliance, as he ruefully recognized at the last Big Three conference in February 1945. Shortly afterward he suffered the domestic humiliation of losing the general election and with it the premiership. He was to return to power in 1951 and remain until April 1955, when ill health and visibly failing powers caused him to resign...
Haven?t we heard this somewhere before? ?It cannot sink,? promised Walter Navratil, president of White Star Line Ltd., of his plans to build a full-scale, $500 million oil-fueled replica of the Titanic. The company, itself a U.S.-Swiss replica of the original Anglo-American White Star line, plans to have the steamer ready for the 90th anniversary of the original Titanic voyage, in April 2002. And at between $10,000 and $100,000 a ticket, the ship is once again likely to be stuffed with the cream of transatlantic aristocracy...