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...Assets bred ambition, and soon Wilhelm II's Germany was clamoring for colonies, a blue-water navy, "a place in the sun." Her Majesty's Britain was not amused, and neither were Russia and France. Armament begat counter-armament, alliances spawned counter-alliances. Domestically, too, the Reich resembled contemporary China. Having unleashed irrepressible economic growth, the Kaiser and his aristocracy found themselves in the same deadly dilemma as Deng's heirs today: How to keep power away from the rising middle classes? The answer: nationalism and chauvinism, which exacerbated diplomatic conflicts with Berlin's neighbors...
...blab to the stranger about subjects best left for pillow talk: Conservative leader William Hague "sounds like a puppet," Tony Blair "doesn't understand the countryside," and "his wife is even worse," Blair's budget is "a load of pap." These are the standard opinions of well-bred Tories, and even the "sheik's" paper, the News of the World, took the deal when Buckingham Palace offered an on-the-record interview in exchange for the tapes. MY EDWARD IS NOT GAY, blared the headline (which, unbelievably, the Palace approved); we also learned that Sophie is fertile but would consider...
...scenes of carnage unleashed fear, anger and sorrow across the nation - as well as an astonishingly swift quest for the suspected perpetrators of the slaughter. America had already learned to expect terror from beyond its borders. Now the country must deal with another reality: the monsters it has bred...
...only history but also autobiography. A native of Birmingham, she was 10 in 1963, about the same age as the four little black girls who were blown to pieces in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. But, as she writes, she was a born and bred member of the city's white upper crust "growing up on the wrong side of the revolution." Her father Martin McWhorter was the renegade son of a family of Ivy League-educated members of the snobbish Mountain Brook Club, where the city's financial and social leaders congregated. McWhorter's quest...
...Word of Mouth - a crowded, kitschy sometime nightclub on a lonely block in Brussels. It's Saturday night, there's a DJ in the next room, and conversations are taking place in three languages at once. This is a party for past and present E.U. stagiaires, or interns - well-bred 20-somethings from across the Continent who come to Brussels as much to meet their equally cultured peers as to learn the intricacies of E.U. bureaucracy. Near the bar, Genevra Forwood, 24 years old and a few drinks in, chats in English and French with a gaggle of friends. Forwood...