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...fellows are the consciences, the very souls, of the humans they're attached to. Yet they're called "daemons"; and that's the first hint of Pullman's agenda. As the trilogy progresses the author reveals a battle between a dictatorial deity and the rebel angels determined to defeat Him. God is the villain of the piece, Satan the hero. And Lyra's on the side of the devils. As Pullman said to the Sydney Morning Post, "My books are about killing...
...right, the economy was strong, but many Australians were saying, If things are so great, why am I not doing well? Howard was governing for the big end of town, not for all Australians. His industrial-relations policies were foreign to Australians and unwelcome. The scale of his defeat says it all. Neville Lines, Redcliffe, Queensland...
...John Howard worked tirelessly as an M.P. for 33 years and our Prime Minister for almost 12. His list of achievements far outweighed his mistakes. While the far left will be celebtrating his defeat for months, the fact is that he lost because Australians wanted a change and Kevin Rudd campaigned brilliantly, offering a low-risk "me too" alternative but with sharp differences from unpopular Howard policies, particularly industrial relations, where his campaign was helped by a multimillion-dollar campaign by the trade union movement. Howard will be remembered as an outstanding PM who ultimately outstayed his welcome. Good luck...
...established itself as one of the most oppressive in the country. Harvard currently leads the nation in scoring defense with 0.89 goals allowed per game and in power play efficiency with a 0.333 average on the kill.Despite its perfect record, the Crimson had to come from behind to defeat Quinnipiac and Princeton in its opening two games of the season—a fact that Vaillancourt alluded to when discussing her team’s mental preparation for this weekend’s match up against UConn. “Our first two games of the season we were losing...
Latin American nationals and policy experts at Harvard said the results of Sunday’s referendum in Venezuela were encouraging for the opposition, but they remained skeptical about the country’s long-term democratic prospects. Sunday night marked the defeat of proposed constitutional amendments that would have granted socialist President Hugo Chavez greater control, including the constitutional power to remain president for life. This is the opposition’s first major electoral victory since Chavez came to power. Federico Andrés Ortega Sosa, a second-year student at the Kennedy School of Government from Caracas...