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...epitome of “a conscious self-sacrifice—he died in his homeland, but was never born elsewhere,” claims Lausevic. Similarly, Dimic envisions emigration as a “pathological state” of a person who does not belong anywhere. Individual personal émigré dilemmas intertwine in the play. “Speaking to Jack [in the gastarbaiter role], I was speaking to myself,” says Lausevic. Similarly, Lausevic warns us of the threat of the “Americanization of the soul,” which especially strikes...
...that cut across national identity," says Eric Tong-Cuong, the founder of the French record company Naive. Events like London's Notting Hill Carnival and the Love Parade, the annual three-day outdoor rave in Berlin, have become massive pan-European parties. "Our generation functions tribally but you can belong to several tribes at the same time...
...Outdoor Resorts in Indio, most of the sites belong to individual bus owners who have paid up to $200,000 for a 75-ft.-long, 35-ft.-wide lot. (Transients can rent an unoccupied lot for $50 a night.) There is not much privacy, but that's O.K. because bus people tend to be outdoor extroverts. "The difference between us and condo people," says Pallin, "is that at 5 o'clock, condo owners go inside, and we come out for cocktails...
...happen to belong to that group of people who think that Harvard presidents should speak out on all kinds of things outside the realm of education," he said, "[but] in Secretary Summers' case, one might want to relax that a little bit, because there are some issues about the global economy that he has expertise...
...years Beijing has insisted that "Taiwan is a part of 'one China.'" But, says Zhou, from now on the Chinese government will insist that "the mainland and Taiwan both belong to 'one China.'" Catch the difference? In the old version of the sentence, Taiwan is presented as a part of China. In the new sentence, Taiwan and the mainland are positioned as parts of the same entity. That means the two sides can talk as equals. Except for one thing: the alternative to reunification, Zhou made clear, is war. Beijing is asking Taiwan, again, to negotiate with...