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...local and European elections was as much a sign of dissatisfaction over the Iraq war, largely seen as a blow to European cooperativeness, as it was a sign of a yearning for independence. Calls for “democracy over bureaucracy” are as old as the Magna Carta, and they continue now in the form of the rising U.K. Independence Party, which, like the Tories, is quite happy with the Pound and doesn’t want to be bossed around by countries that use the Euro, thank you very much...
...OPTIMISTIC ARE YOU THAT IRAQ WILL EMERGE AS A STABLE, DEMOCRATIC-LEANING STATE THAT IS FRIENDLY TO THE U.S. AND A MODEL FOR THE REGION? Not very. Professor J.Q. Wilson reminds us that after the Magna Carta, it took England about 500 years before it could persuasively call itself democratic and stable.What is unmistakably accomplished is the death of a hideous regime and kindled interest in liberal reform...
...push Bush to topple Saddam after 9/11, he has surely not mastered the subject of history [Dec. 29-Jan. 5]. If he had been in one of the history classes that I taught, he would have learned how democracy took root in England in 1215 with the Magna Carta and developed over the course of centuries. He would have studied the French Revolution and the travails of that country as it struggled to emerge as the France of today. Does Wolfowitz realize how difficult it is to bring democracy to a people who have no democratic tradition? Perhaps he might...
...intellectual" and the first to push Bush to topple Saddam after 9/11, he has surely not mastered the subject of history. If he had been in one of the history classes that I taught, he would have learned how democracy took root in England in 1215 with the Magna Carta and developed over the course of centuries. He would have studied the French Revolution and the travails of that country as it struggled to emerge as the France of today. Does Wolfowitz realize how difficult it is to bring democracy to a people who have no democratic tradition? Perhaps...
...chart with names blocked out, Watkins and Yang used the pseudonyms Jane and Lucy. But no one in Pennypacker, or at least those in the know, had any doubt as to the identities of the participants in the chart. Among the 26 people on the floor, the historic, Magna Carta-like document counted a whopping 11 cases of floorcest. Of course, these centered around specific players: the 15 “freaks,” 11 “Superfreaks” and one individual identified as “Pimp Daddy...