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...roots of this rage can be found in place and time. The city's Sutherland Shire, where the troubles first occurred, is a close cousin of the O.C., 4,000 miles across the Pacific. The ?shire?, predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon, and insular, is unlike the rest of Sydney, which has for 60 years peacefully absorbed waves of immigrants from Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Each summer, the shire's surf beaches attract hordes of visitors from the immigrant, working-class suburbs of southwestern Sydney. Not all visitors are welcome. Some behave very badly. Policing has been...
...town of Limoges, a famed center for French porcelain, Gilles Schnepp has a perspective different from the government's anti--Anglo-Saxon mind-set. He is chief executive of Legrand, a $3 billion electrical equipment company that was acquired late in 2002 by KKR and French group Wendel in France's biggest buyout. Legrand had been in the process of merging with a French competitor, Schneider Electric, and suddenly found itself in limbo after the European Union vetoed the deal on antitrust grounds...
...bitter. "What made us lose was fair play," Delanoe said from Singapore. In Paris, Pascal Bildstein, vice president of the French Triathlon Federation, was more explicit: "When Princess Anne promises all the IOC members an audience with the Queen, it's just not ethical. This was a victory for Anglo-Saxon lobbying, and a loss for real Olympic values...
...French have expressed concerns that the project will only foster America’s cultural imperialism, enhancing the dominance of the English language and Anglo-Saxon ways of thinking...
...think that this could lead to an imbalance to the benefit of a mainly Anglo-Saxon view of the world,” Jeanneney told The Associated Press. “I think this is danger...