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Zoning laws should have been able to keep the Swiss government out of a residential area, Schreiber said, as he held up a sign reading "Swiss House Does Not Belong Here...
Championships simply belong in New York. The city knows how to appreciate a title. Its victors receive a ticker-tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes, worshipped by millions...
...power struggle between man and machine is abandoned without a winner, and Kid A ends with a vivid human vignette. "Motion Picture Soundtrack," whose lyrics, "Red wine and sleeping pills/Help me get back to your arms/Cheap sex and sad films/Help me get back where I belong," set against an unlikely progression of plagal cadences on organ and starry harp glissandos, ends with the line, "I will see you in the next life...
...most traveled stretches of the busiest highway in Rond?nia. Moreover, the dozen or so clearings were cut in less than a week, a coordinated assault that bespeaks organization and planning. Antonio Alves, one of the settlers, says he came here because he was told the land did not belong to anyone. In fact, it belongs to a nonprofit organization that has not been able to produce clear title to the land; ibama officials guess that the settlers were tipped to this opportunity by a local politician...
...ELTIS: Once more the insider-outsider divide is critical. At root, this is an expression of the contradiction in all human beings of the need to belong and at the same time to differentiate themselves. My argument is that societies do not usually enslave their own members, except for what is perceived as anti-social behavior. Between the Dark Ages and Columbian contact ? aided by the concept of Christendom ? Europe came to form an important element in the collective identities (that is the way people saw themselves as a group) of all western European peoples. Thus the French, Germans, English...