Word: englands
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With four spots at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association’s Dinghy national championships on the line, the No. 4 Harvard co-ed sailing team found itself on the outside looking in after a sixth-place showing on a tumultuous Saturday at the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. But on Sunday, the Crimson stormed back, finishing the New England Dinghy Championship in second place and earning its second coveted nationals invite in as many weeks. “Saturday was very interesting,” junior captain Kyle Kovacs said...
...Drawing from a rich tradition of British cinematic realism, which includes directors like Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, the film has sparked controversy in its native land. England has long prided itself as an island of tolerance and freedom for newcomers, and detractors claim that Meadows' focus on an unpopular war - the film is inter-spliced with Falklands' footage - together with anti-immigrant racism lends undue emphasis to the seamier side of the country's recent past. A Sunday Times review by critic Cosmo Landesman dismissed the film's portrayal of 1980s (predominantly) white-working class as "unconvincing," railing against...
...subculture as uniformly racist and violent. While it may be true that far-right parties no longer play any part in Britain's mainstream political discourse, other extremist movements are rising in Europe. And with the invasion of Iraq and rise in Islamophobia, Meadows suggests that This is England could be as much a warning for England's present as it is a depiction of its past...
Paul Eastaugh, READING, ENGLAND...
Gavin Murray, ONBRIDGE, ENGLAND...