Word: anglo
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...company. They sit side by side in business class. When Caleb’s not doing research, he works his way through “Les Miserables.” He said Rove teases him about how little progress he’s made on the novel. THE ANGLO CONSERVATIVE TEXAN...
...areas where Americans and Europeans could work together. Lamassoure also said that France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has brought about a significantly more pro-American climate in his country. He noted that Sarkozy has rejected socialism—the president has repeatedly said he admires the Anglo-American economic systems—and that he has announced that “he is a friend of the United States.” “Before, French leaders tried to show their independence from the United States,” Lamassoure said. “We cannot afford...
RockNRolla Written and directed by Guy Ritchie; rated R; out now As Anglo meanies battling Russian toughs over a real estate deal, Gerard Butler is the star, Tom Wilkinson has the star turn, and Mark Strong steals the show. Fans of early Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Snatch) won't find a lot new in Mr. Madonna's latest dredging of the London underworld, but it has the same high quotient of rude...
...Another possible repercussion: a reexamination of the freewheeling, free-market practices - what the French like to call "Anglo-Saxon capitalism" - that led to this crisis. French President Nicolas Sarkozy kicked off that debate as Wall Street was reeling from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Congress was first debating the bailout package. In a speech in Toulon on Sept. 25, he said the crisis marked "the end of a world that was built on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War - a big dream of liberty and prosperity." As for capitalism, he called...
...think so. The first substantial translation I did was from the Irish called “Sweeney Astray” from an Irish poem called “Buile Shuibhne.” Working with a very heavy concrete element of Anglo-Saxon was a counter-weight to what I was hearing in America. It’s a much opener conversational weave. I think of myself as between the two, but I was glad at that time of the substantial element in the language. It brought me back to more of a substantial language...