Word: britain
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...offer two simple reasons that Britain's Premier League is dominating. Football is the world's sport, and English is the world's language. Justin Eckl, Pusan, South Korea...
...What's Ahead for Blair? I agree with Michael Elliott's point that the British will miss Tony Blair [May 14]. I have lived and worked in Britain for 61/2 years and enjoy following its political scene. I am always amazed by how easily senior politicians can lose their jobs once problems are reported in the papers-regardless of whether the politicians are capable. I am not a fan of Blair's, but I wish he could stay on as Prime Minister. After he leaves office, I hope he can serve like Al Gore, as an environmentalist and observer...
...theologian. He was a self-professed "hairy lefty," a Christian socialist arrested in a 1985 protest at a U.S. air base in England, who now criticizes the Iraq war. And he once also had a controversial stance on the theology of sexuality. In 1989 he delivered a lecture to Britain's Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement in which he stated: "If we are looking for a sexual ethic that can be seriously informed by our Bible, there is a good deal to steer us away from assuming that reproductive sex is a norm." He continued: "The absolute condemnation of same...
...thought Britain was too subservient to the U.S.? I was deeply saddened by the apparently uncritical way in which our government accepted the case for going around...
...because of the size of McDonald's war chest and its lobbying power. The campaign has already the garnered the support of heavyweight business figures such as Chambers of Commerce Director General David Frost. More impressively, Conservative party Member of Parliament Clive Betts last week introduced a motion into Britain's parliament condemning the pejorative use of McJob. Betts believes the OED should redefine the term: "It would be helpful if the dictionary took the lead on this. It's not a proper and true reflection of the service industry today...