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...cheering House of Commons, are "complex, changing and difficult, the more so because they are taking place between a military junta and a democratic government of a free people-one which is not prepared to compromise that democracy and that liberty which the British Falkland Islanders regard as their birthright." The British government would continue to listen to plans that might break the deadlock, but it would enforce its blockade of the disputed archipelago. "If the [war] zone is challenged," she declared, "we shall take that as the clearest evidence that the search for a peaceful solution has been abandoned...
...some concession was made, and the reasoning advanced for making this change was invincible. The South African government has declared itself inalterably opposed to the dismantling of apartheid--a system of institutionalized segregation systematically stripping the country's million Blacks of their land and birthright, herding them like cattle into desolate reservations called bantustans and permitting them to emerge only as temporary migrant labor. Bank loans to the South African government therefore constitute a form of direct aid to state committed to the consolidation of apartheid rather than the desegregation and democratization of the existing white supremacist system. Accordingly...
...much of their life revolved around Clarendon Court, the ten-acre estate on Newport's Millionaires' Row that they acquired in 1970. The 20-room mansion was somewhat small by Newport standards, and the Von Billows were not birthright members of the "summer colony," but it was not long before they were pillars of local society. They entertained on a lavish scale. Says one frequent guest: "You go to John Doe's house for an informal visit and expect a gin and tonic. At Sunny's house, you got imported champagne." The party celebrating Alexander...
...moon"); a moment in January ("It is cold, a day that might bring snow, a day that feels hollow"). These moments, and many others like them, shed radiance on Rabbit and his surroundings, the very glow of transcendence that this overweight car salesman still, stubbornly, thinks of as his birthright. He does not always see it, but Updike's readers are granted this vision and something more: a superlative comic novel that is also an American romance. -By Paul Gray -While he was writing Rabbit, Run, more than 20 years ago, John Updike discovered that "I enjoyed being inside...
...centuries. Today the idea of trial by jury is enshrined in several guarantees of the U.S. Constitution. The Sixth Amendment, for one, gives criminal defendants "the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury." Trial by jury is part of every American's legal birthright, and thus, like income taxes or the Wassermann test, part of his duties...