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...late-2008 releases have earned about $250 million? Gran Torino and Marley & Me. As for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, it added $205 million offshore for a total of $332.6 million. And the top-grossing film worldwide since last fall, with $352.8 million: that little runt of an Anglo-Indie charmer, Slumdog Millionaire. It's like a Pixar movie, without the pixels...
...food company Kraft upped the price of its Maxwell House Colombian ground coffees by roughly a fifth in April. Rival Smucker's made a similar move earlier in the month for its brand, Folgers. Tea drinkers are being milked for more too. Responding to increased market prices, Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever - owner of the PG tips and Scottish Blend brands - plans to increase the cost of its tea bags by about 10% in the coming weeks. Patrons of Starbucks, a bulk buyer of those Arabica beans, may not notice too much change, insists José Sette, head of operations...
English is a voracious melting pot of a language. It's basically what the Anglo-Saxons brought over from the mainland to the British Isles. Then that was overlaid with Latin, because the British Isles were conquered by the Romans and converted to Christianity. Then the French conquered the island in 1066, so French was the official language in England for 300 years. With the Renaissance came a big influx of more Latin words. You had the Scientific Revolution, so you had a big influx of Greek words. Then with colonialism, the language started taking words from everywhere...
...flag or chanting nationalist slogans as young men. I knew what he meant. I grew up in Sutherland Shire, in Sydney's south, where my family - South Indians from Malaysia - had settled after immigrating in 1988. And although the Shire, as it's called, is one of the most Anglo-Saxon regions of the country, it was like the rest of Australia in its laid-back attitude to national sentiment. Sure, it was good to be Australian, but the rest of that stuff - the flag-waving, the chest-thumping - was the province of those jingoistic Yanks. When...
...elected, Davis would lead the Confederacy's first capital, Montgomery, where Alabama's best-known governor, George Wallace, in his 1963 inaugural address, called the state the "Cradle of the Confederacy," the "very Heart of the Great Anglo-Saxon Southland," and declared, "segregation now...segregation tomorrow... segregation forever." Davis' election would deliver another blow to what remains of the G.O.P.'s racially divisive Southern Strategy. He would also be only the third black elected governor in American history, the second from the South. Is Alabama ready for that much change? (See a graphic presentation of the American Civil...