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...rise - if he retains his marginal Sydney seat. Said after the 1999 republic referendum that monarchist Howard had "broken this nation's heart." Has swiftly mastered a key portfolio but drawn criticism for approving a new pulp mill in Tasmania. Believed to support ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, in contrast to government position...
...Harvard, by contrast, the ratio between introductory-level and upper-level students is roughly 2 to 1, Cortese said...
...with a surprising jump to second place. But McCain, who has spent one out of every seven days since September in Iowa, with 11 days in total, has seen his poll ratings actually fall from 13% in August to 6% currently, just two points ahead of Ron Paul. By contrast, while he has spent almost the same amount of time in New Hampshire, 15 days combined, McCain's numbers have risen six percentage points since August, to 17%, putting him firmly in third place behind Romney and Giuliani...
...think Australians are rather like Americans and that we want to be more so. Dead wrong. No idealism attended the birth of Anglo-Australia. White colonization in America began as a religious venture; the Puritans thought they were, literally, creating God's country. Australia, by contrast, began as the continent of sin, the dump for English criminals. Australians, unlike Americans, have never felt they had a mission or a message for a fallen world. There is no doctrine of Australian exceptionalism. If this deprived us of the heights of American moral expectation, it spared us from the anguish of American...
...having been in Australia for 40,000 years or more, in contrast to the whites' 200 or less, the Aborigines were not giving up. So the policy changed to assimilation. First, the Aborigines were deprived of their nomadic tribal life and concentrated in "mission stations," communities run mainly by Protestant evangelists, where they were taught the Gospels, shown white ways and prepared for low-level jobs as servants...