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Even worse, a left at a red light is not only grossly illegal and potentially lethal to pedestrians, but it may also metallically entangle you with a fellow road user. Even if you have no sense of self-preservation, the ensuing gaskets blown would doubtless be annoyingly disruptive to us students in the library...
...prophetic idea was to recruit religious outcasts--Englishmen who longed to put an ocean between them and the established Anglican Church. Some radical Protestants, known as Dissenters, had already fled to Holland. The Virginia Co. lured some Dissenters over and opened negotiations with others. One boatload of Pilgrims, blown north, landed in Plymouth, Mass., in 1620. Religious pluralism in British North America would suffer many backtracks and false starts (Virginia would develop its own Anglican establishment as time passed), but the first step was taken in Jamestown...
...tragedy of the Sinnathambi family is not unique. Civilian casualties and displacement can occur in any armed conflict, whether the guise is ethnic or religious strife. Once a dispute becomes full-blown war, the weapons industry takes over by supplying arms to both sides of the dividing line. This is a major reason for prolonged conflicts, and in this regard the action of the U.S. government to prevent weapons from reaching the L.T.T.E. is commendable. Jayantha Guruge, Davis, California...
...tragedy of the Sinnathambi family is not unique. Civilian casualties and displacement can occur in any armed conflict, whether the guise is ethnic or religious strife. Once a dispute becomes full-blown war, the weapons industry takes over by supplying arms to both sides of the dividing line. This is a major reason for prolonged conflicts, and in this regard the action of the U.S. government to prevent weapons from reaching the L.T.T.E. is commendable. Jayantha Guruge, DAVIS, CALIFORNIA...
...That's clear from the affection the filmmakers have for all their actors (an honor roll of film, stage and TV character stars) and their characters, including the baddies. Sure, the movie climaxes in a bloodbath, with all the perps get blown up, run over or impaled. But, and I'm not giving too much away, most of them miraculously - or, rather, very Englishly - survive. After all, in dear old Blighty, people don't die of gun violence...