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...dazzled by the prospect of a limitless Chinese market, if only they could get there; so they wanted more ports opened to trade. Furthermore, free trade was fast becoming a moral imperative in Britain. A dozen years later, the chief British official in China, Sir John Bowring, coined the dictum: “Free trade is Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is free trade.”More earnings from trade were also needed to pay for growing quantities of that essential British import, Chinese tea. In the 1660s, Britain imported some two lbs. of it; by the 1780s that...
...watched on jumbo television screens as a dozens of speakers took to the pulpit to sing the praise of King's widow. To attend the ceremony, the President had delayed a New Hampshire trip promoting his new budget. Bush, who is notoriously restless at long events, stuck to the dictum that speakers keep their remarks short. His words didn't rouse the crowd, but he was received politely when he said that he was there to offer sympathy on behalf of an entire nation. His words, laced with religious imagery, seemed to resonate. Speaking of Mrs. King and her late...
Death to Denmark? The whole affair seems to offer proof not only of chaos theory but also of Emily Post's dictum that you ought not to talk about religion--or to be prepared for anything if you do. To Muslims, the drawings were blasphemy, a violation of a cultural protocol not to portray the Prophet. The range of reactions to the cartoon's publication among Muslims and non-Muslims alike served as a reminder of the gaping divide that still exists between the West and much of the Islamic world. In a show of solidarity for their journalistic brethren...
...dispute still unresolved, the Twin Towers loom over the horizon. The distance between New York and Munich is shorter than we imagined.Spielberg provides no easy answers for the questions he raises in “Munich,” only a reformulation of Prime Minsiter Meir’s dictum: every civilization finds it necessary to wrestle with the problem of violence to define its values.—Staff writer Bernard L. Parham can be reached at parham@fas.harvard.edu...
...First, let me give you the parsimonious answer: He’s Just Not That Into You. And the best-selling book of this title offers you an appropriately simplistic dictum. Basically, authors Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo say, if a guy really likes you, he won’t let anything get in his way. Scoffing at the classic scenario of overeager single women (you really like this guy, he gives you mixed signals, you make excuses for him), Behrendt and Tuccillo advise women to stop kidding themselves, let go, and look for someone who will...