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...like cold, rainy weather, you’ll no doubt enjoy Cambridge, MA. Yet there’s something decidedly refreshing about shelling out major cash to experience the dreariness 3,000 miles away. Hit up this self-governing Crown dependency and enjoy some splendid Anglo-Saxon...
...Harvard admissions numbers are concerned, I make up part of the 10.5 percent of the Class of 2010 that is African-American, but I’d like to set the record straight: I’m French-Canadian, Anglo-Scottish, Cherokee African-American...
...less a survey of France and more and more a savage reflection of the state of American culture itself. This article speaks truly of America and of what will happen to it on that day when the increasing power of Spanish, Chinese or perhaps other Asian languages ensure that Anglo-American will no longer be the language of the formula and of universal translation. France as metaphor for America. Anti-French hostility as a displaced form of panic which dare not speak its name. Classic. Bernard-Henri Lévy, IN THE GUARDIAN...
...enjoyed reading the cover story on the demise of French culture [Dec. 3]. But there are plenty of emerging French artists, especially on the pop- and dance-music scene: David Guetta and Bob Sinclar both released international hit songs this year, albeit with Anglo-Saxon singers. Over the past 10 years, electronic groups from France such as Daft Punk (whom Kanye West sampled on his recent hit Stronger) and Air have met with similar success. French rap is thriving too - in fact, the rap market in France is the second biggest after the U.S. Graham Clark, KEIGHLEY, ENGLAND...
Many of the bigger houses are now museums where you can study the Karoo's harsh history: the Great Trek, when the Boers left Cape Town for the interior in 1835-40; wars between Europeans and Africans, particularly Zulus; wars among Europeans (the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902); the rise of Afrikaner nationalism and Boer mythology. Not all the area's troubles are past. There's more than a hint of enduring apartheid in the town's layout: colonial mansions for whites in the center, tin shacks for coloreds and blacks on the outskirts. And there's a lingering...