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Daisy Does AmericaTBS, Tuesdays, 10p.m.A few years ago, there was a show on Britain??s Channel 4 called “The Eleven O’Clock Show.” It was a spoof news program in the same vein as the news correspondents’ reports on “The Daily Show.” Though you may not have heard of the show, its roster was deep with talent: Both Sacha Baron Cohen (aka “Ali G”) and Ricky Gervais (David Brent of TV?...
That very year, The Crimson detailed the visit of Emmeline Pankhurst, Britain??s foremost militant suffragette, for a lecture series with other suffragists and Ivy League professors. Three years later, Harvard welcomed Jane Addams of Hull House; in 1918, Congress passed the Susan B. Anthony Bill, the first step towards enfranchisement. While ginger ale, moonlit walks, and secret sleepovers might have been fulfilling enough for the 1905 woman, The Club risked falling victim to its own conceit...
...tinged “Tripping.” The funky tempo is met with surprisingly philosophical lyrics like: “What you think is what you’re soon adoring/You don’t want the truth the truth is boring.” Who knew that Britain??s pop master had thoughts past booze and broads? Williams then points the lyrics at himself, taking him to previously unexplored areas of introspection. In the gentle ballad “Make Me Pure,” he settles on his faults...
...establish the truth about the history of Africa” is Goal #1 of Panafest and enticement enough to compel your correspondent, a gadfly of colonial history and sensitive about sweeping, Pan-African pronouncements of historical truth, to hightail it to this one-time capital of Britain??s Gold Coast Colony (Cape Coast, Ghana) where the confab is gathering...
...studies British politics, said that the British government had “some success” in its recent health care reforms, particularly in its push to reduce hospital waiting lists. But he also acknowledged—as did the reports Berwick cited—that Britain??s health care system has several hurdles that it must still overcome...