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...ally," says Dupont. "The idea that Australia is looked down on in Washington as a lickspittle is wrong," says Stephen Morris, a historian of U.S. policy in Asia at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University. "Australia is respected and its role in the alliance is appreciated. It has built up credit in the eyes of its friends, so it is listened...
...challenge for curators with their fragile ochers and buckling frames, barks are impossible to restrain, and it's to her credit that Hetti Perkins has liberated many in the show from their 20th century backing boards. It's the perfect medium for the constantly metamorphosing creatures that inhabit them, from yawkyawk mermaid spirits to the rainbow serpent, Ngalyod. Indeed, so warped is the bark of James Iyuna's 2002 serpent that it threatens to lift off the wall. But what is a nightmare for conservators is a thrill for spectators...
Ashley tried to reason with Arnaud, but he wouldn’t pay. After a couple of minutes of negotiation, she gave up and gave the server her credit card to pay for the 500 Euro bottle. I don’t know if the server was a moron at processing credit cards or if there actually was a problem with her card, but for some reason it would not go through. Having just paid my rent that day, I gave her the 60 Euros in my wallet...
Marable’s second demand was that black studies combine with a new model of civic engagement in order to enact change. To that end, I offer that faculty can impact the grassroots by organizing—drumroll please—students! The apathy with which many intellectuals credit our generation is a result of being bombarded with statistics about poverty and hopelessness without being offered mentorship as we seek to solve these dilemmas. With no meaningful guidance, many black students decide to major in law, business, or medicine with a minor in black magic—the study...
...least give Housewives credit for looking at what our unrealistic ideals of domesticity do to women. Those ideals still rule on two new reality shows, Trading Spouses on Fox and Wife Swap on ABC, which give two moms a chance to run each other's homes. Both shows are a hoot, but they also judge women entirely in terms of their housekeeping skills. On Swap, a millionaire with four nannies tearfully realizes she needs to spend less time at the spa and more with the kids: "I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me!" Even Lifetime...