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...ridiculous practice of primogeniture were to cease with our current monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. I also would be grateful to hear from people who support this system. Perhaps they believe in the inherited status of doctor, lawyer or journalist. More than 200 years ago, patriot Thomas Paine, born an Englishman, advised the people of America of our flawed system of government. MARK KOBAYASHI-HILLARY London...
MARSEILLE: Eight hours of pitched battles. Overturned cars, set on fire with petrol bombs. A young Englishman with his throat slashed. An old Frenchman being kicked until blood spurts from his head. No, it's not a scene from World War II, but the second ugly incident of France '98. Ahead of Monday's England-Tunisia World Cup match, hundreds of English fans went to war with hundreds of Tunisians -- and fought a second front against thousands of local French Algerians and the police. More than 34 people were injured, according to rescue services, and early reports spoke of more...
Perhaps--unless that historian is Ed Ball. His clan stretches back to Englishman Elias ("Red Cap") Ball, who came to Carolina in 1698 for his inheritance of 740 acres and 25 slaves. His descendants would ultimately rule 25 plantations and 4,000 slaves. As a child, Ed Ball heard tales of war heroes and beautiful plantations; slaves were rarely mentioned. Ball's father once quipped about matters not to be discussed: "Religion, sex, death, money--and the Negroes." When slavery did come up, two assertions were made as God's truth: We were good to our Negroes. There...
...believe it was John Maynard Keynes who said, "If a currency is going to sound like an automobile, it should at least sound like a large automobile." It is easy to imagine an Englishman saying, "I've been thinking of buying a little runabout--perhaps one of those new Euros...
...father would write a sensuous sentiment, in elegant Japanese calligraphy, on the child's face. Twenty years later, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) tries to duplicate, erotically, the touch of her father's brush. She challenges her lovers to write their lust all over her body. Then she finds a handsome Englishman (Ewan McGregor) who convinces her that she should do the writing, on his body. Finally, she will be not the paper but the pen--an artist writing love notes in the medium of flesh...