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...events are quantitatively different,” Sennott said. He went on to explain that on Sept. 11, foreign terrorists came to America with the intention of carrying out an attack while the London bombings were perpetrated by second-generation British Muslims who felt disconnected from Britain. “Why haven’t we seen a homegrown terrorists cell in the United States?” Sennott asked. According to Sennott, the answer to this question is American mind’s focus on religion. “America is a very religious place,” Sennott...
After more than eight years in the political wilderness, Britain's Conservatives are excited-their party on Tuesday elected a new leader they believe can take them back into power after suffering three successive defeats by prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party. On the face of it, choosing 39-year-old David Cameron, educated at exclusive Eton College and Oxford, might seem a gamble: Although he served as a special adviser to two Tory cabinet ministers during the 1990s, he has comparatively little parliamentary experience for a party leader, having served only four years as an MP and joining...
Customers of ATMs long ago decided they could do without a teller. Now Steven Atkinson has a bolder idea: they can also do without the cash. His company mobileATM has developed secure software that allows cell-phone owners in Britain to check their bank balances using their handsets. That may sound trivial, but 37 banks in Britain, including First Direct (the roughly $12 billion phone and PC division of giant HSBC) and RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland), have approved...
...Marshall Scholarship, like the Rhodes, provides students with the opportunity to pursue graduate studies and research in Britain for free. Unlike the Rhodes, the Marshall Scholarship’s mission is particularly focused on improving ties between the U.S. and the United Kingdom...
Benedict Arnold believed in the right of Great Britain to control its lawful colony. He also, at one point, believed in the right of the colonists to secede from the British empire, given its tyrannical taxation and creepy obsession with tea, biscuits, and slaves...