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...scores of former students have rung up—but he was a marvellous father and grandfather, not just to his own grandchildren but also to mine,” said Neustadt’s wife, Shirley Williams, who is the leader of the Liberal Democrats in Britain??s House of Lords...
...shortlist for the Mercury Prize, Britain??s premier music award, highlights these divergent tastes. The Mercury’s idea of nodding to pop sensibility is to shortlist Coldplay whenever they release an album, but never actually award them anything—a trick they’ve been playing on Blur for years. There are always a couple of jazz or classical albums nominated just to prove how classy the award really is, though they also never actually win: high-brow classiness that stops just short of alienating its audience is the object...
...students crowded into Sever Hall to hear the special advisor to Great Britain??s finance minister speak about progressive politics...
...well-packed duffle-bag, getting finger-printed for access at work and being legally bound to secrecy in all my endeavors. If I had heard about this job description a month ago, I would have sworn I was working as a double-0 agent for MI6, Britain??s intelligence agency, or that Ian Fleming could have just as easily made James Bond a summer intern at a consulting firm...
Ferguson says that the U.S. has taken Britain??s role but failed to acknowledge the empire that came with it. Empire, Rudyard Kipling once wrote, is a “global burden.” It is that burden that the United States must now accept and wield—American imperialism has to be about more than the golden arches and Britney Spears...