Word: californianism
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What’s an honest Californian to do? For now, I’m keeping the thermostat on 80 and making sure not to use expensive scientific equipment when the grid goes down. I’m also doing some reading on Andres Pico, the Mexican leader at the Battle of San Pasqual. That is, if the lights stay...
...justify kidnapping, massacres and extortion, had given the President 48 hours to accept a Malaysian businessman as negotiator. After that, Abu Sayyaf threatened, it would start killing the hostages. With the clock ticking away, Arroyo gave in to the rebels' demands?only to have them boast of beheading the Californian tourist anyway. Jeered Abu Sabaya: "It's up to you to find Sobero's head ... but the dogs may beat you to it." Speaking to diplomats after the 103rd Independence Day festivities, the diminutive President flourished some of her trademark rhetorical steel. The alleged murder, she said, "only strengthens...
...kidnappers beheaded two Filipinos?a cook and security guard seized in the raid on the Dos Palmas tourist resort in the western province of Palawan. Speaking by sat phone to a local radio station, group commander Abu Sabaya said they had also decapitated one of the three American hostages, Californian Guillermo Sobero, although the army said it has no proof of that killing. The group knows the jungle intimately?far better than Manila's men in uniform. For days, the army had no idea where the group was. "The jungle is so dense in there that...
...Berkeley Daily Californian ran the ad on Feb. 28 and immediately printed a front-page apology when 40 protestors, including Daily Cal staffers, confronted editor-in-chief Daniel Hernandez about...
...ceramic sculptures so immediate and memorable. They manage to look luscious and poisonous at the same time, and in terms of what curator Barron and her team have set out to show - the weird confluence of vectors in a flawed and contradictory ex-paradise - they are perhaps the most "Californian" objects in this whole enormous show...