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...Thatcher has suffered several political setbacks this summer. Disaffection with her tight economic policies continues to grow, the Conservative Party limped in a distant third in a by-election last month, and Thatcher's approval rating has dropped to 34% in the most recent Gallup poll. But perhaps the cruelest blow came last week, when nearly 100 members of her party refused to back a Thatcher proposal to raise salaries for top government officials by as much as 46%. Both the Tory rebels and Labor opponents denounced the raises as insensitive, coming at a time when the government is pushing...
...Ultimately Valentin confesses that his revolutionary ardor is no less a romantic fancy than Luis' old movies are. Both are substitutes for the more immediate and commonplace forms of love that elude these fantasists of impossible perfection. And both surrender to a final irony: real life may be the cruelest of all illusions, a fantasy-film star (Sonia Braga) could be a methodical killer...
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...chickens a day (a conservative estimate). India is not a rich country and has a large vegetarian population, but we slaughter a large number of other animals. Yes, it is not only the big cats but many other living creatures that are in danger of extinction. Man is the cruelest predator of all. Som Sharma Gurgaon, India...
...conservative estimate). India is not a rich country and has a large vegetarian population, but we also slaughter a large number of other animals. Yes, it is not only the big cats but many other living creatures that are in danger of extinction. Man is the cruelest predator of all. Som Sharma Gurgaon, India Since the tiger is India's national animal, I feel especially sad that it is threatened. There were nearly 40,000 tigers on the subcontinent at the turn of the 20th century, but today there are only 3,200 to 4,500. The British and others...