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...more reason for Europeans to ponder the implications of Britain's sudden entry -- at long last -- into the European Monetary System's exchange control mechanism. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who had opposed the EMS from the beginning as an infringement on national sovereignty, was tacitly acknowledging her need to belong -- and her fear of losing influence over decisions in an E.C. in which the center of political gravity is shifting toward the newly united Germany. At the same time, however, Thatcher brought with her a philosophical challenge to the wider project, that of creating a common currency and central bank...
...Zeugma" is a literary device in which a single verb modifies two distinct objects that do not belong together--as, for example in the following passage from Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock...
Last spring, Andrew T. Starr '91-93 saw the obstreperous face of Bart Simpson in a place it didn't belong...
...whole world directs its attention, however briefly, to those to whom the earth will soon belong, what kind of leadership can the United States offer? Americans cherish the notion that they cherish their children, but there's woeful evidence to the contrary. Each year thousands of American babies are born premature and underweight, in a country torn by neither war nor famine. The U.S. is one of only four countries -- with Iran, Iraq and Bangladesh -- that still execute juvenile offenders. And nearly 1 in 4 American children under age six lives in poverty. Congressmen wrestling with budget cuts, policymakers musing...
Moreover, the majority could not resist tainting an otherwise principled endorsement of free speech with its own gratuitous criticisms of Peninsula. In doing so, they wrongly introduce partisan rhetoric where it does not belong...