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...Coming in here,” Rathgeber said, “I wanted to prove that I was one of the best IMers in New England...
...strong, united Europe will provide a bulwark against American hegemony. If the U.S. doesn't stop throwing its weight around, the world will sooner or later lose patience and go elsewhere for the goods, services and diplomatic skills that we in Europe can readily supply. Michael D. Mitchell Spalding, England Physician-Assisted Abuse "The Abu Ghraib Scandal You Don't Know" described how the prison's medical system became an "instrument of abuse, by design and by neglect" [Feb. 14]. It is inexcusable that the U.S. did not provide adequate medical services and supplies for prisoners. The abuses and atrocities...
Would the real Kazuo Ishiguro please stand up? The 50-year-old novelist is a tough man to classify. Born in Nagasaki, bred in Surrey (where he lived from the age of 5), he looks Japanese, but speaks with the accent of public-school England. Three of his six novels are set in the Far East, the other three explore the quintessence of Englishness. After the stately, hugely successful The Remains of the Day, which spawned the 1993 movie, Ishiguro went wild; his next two novels - The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans - subjected their characters to chaos, violence...
...experience, however, seem to have gone unlearned. - By Tim McGirk Lessons in Law BRITAIN A 16-year-old Muslim schoolgirl won the right to wear the all-enveloping jilbab in class, with London's Court of Appeal ruling that a ban on the garment by her school in central England was an infringement of the European Convention on Human Rights. But legal experts predicted that the judgment will have no effect on a ban in France on students displaying conspicuous symbols of religious faith, as the European Court of Human Rights tends to leave such decisions to individual governments. Eloquent...
...Like Beckham) proves her directorial versatility by offering up a classic tale from Western culture, but tinting it with a distinctly Eastern lens. As the title suggests, the movie is an adaptation of the Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice, but instead of taking place in 18th century England, the camera takes us through modern-day India, London, and Los Angeles...