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...years, London has said it would cede the territory to Argentina only if the islanders were willing. So far, they have been opposed to the idea, preferring a distant relationship with Britain to union with chronically unstable Argentina...
...Might, at home as well as abroad, makes right. The main fallacy of this New Federalism is the relationship between the central government and the local and state apparatuses. Who can pretend that the states are autonomous anymore, economically or politically? Who can pretend that the federal government should cede its power to assure basic needs across the country to decentralized, parochial and inefficient authorities? Apparently, the same people who last year at this time waited for the Laffer Curve to slope off of a napkin and on to their bank statements. They took the tax cut and ran leaving...
Diana Trilling has become something of an intellectual institution. A consistent voice for moderation, Mrs. Trilling is not a neoconservative not only because there is nothing "neo" about her conservative views, but also because she refuses to cede the term "liberal" to those to her left. "I am understood by people who know my work to be a traditional nineteenth-century political liberal," she says. "Liberalism has all too frequently been defined in its century by one's toleration of Soviet Communism...
...self-imposed isolation at the end of the 19th century, Japan proved all but invincible. With no country in the area strong enough to stand in its way, Tokyo gained its present domination over the Pacific, invading the Hawaiian Islands in 1910 and forcing a weak Mexico to cede the Catalina Islands, off the coast of Southern California, in 1913. Santa Catalina is now the Japanese Hong Kong, a center of industrial activity whose smoggy air often fouls the otherwise clear skies of sleepy Los Angeles. Defeated by Japan at the Battle of Tsushima Strait in 1905, Russia was forced...
...Christian Phalangist forces in Lebanon would cede control of the eastern city of Zahle to Lebanese army regulars. This would allow both the Christians and the Syrians to disengage from their battle for control of the city, the clash that had provoked the latest crisis...