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Let’s not forget what European-American cooperation has accomplished since World War II. Together, Europeans and Americans have faced down Communism when the Soviets were threatening to “bury” us; we dismantled the racist apartheid regime in South Africa and turned that country into a model of democracy; we’ve moved the Balkans out of its long nightmare of ethnic cleansing and unremitting violence to a new dawn of peaceful coexistence and prosperity; now we’re working together to build an accountable government in Afghanistan that will reintegrate...
...depth of the European-American bond is not limited to that sympathy alone. The great powers of Europe—Britain, France, and Germany—are among the most tolerant and democratic nations on earth, and terrorism appalls them as much as it appalls us. These common values have always underpinned the bond between...
...when unilateralist commentators back home like William Safire and Charles Krauthammer demean the European-American relationship, they jeopardize those shared accomplishments and the promise of many more—like winning the war on terrorism. In that way, their uncompromising words actually imperil our security by undermining the key global alliances that will protect America from more terrorism...
...there's also a thematic relevance to Alba's looks. With her wavy black hair and dulce de leche skin, she's as enigmatic racially as Max is genetically: she could be Latina, Filipina, light-skinned black or dark-skinned white. Alba, the daughter of Latino and European-American parents, says, "Max is mixed up [ethnically] just like most people in the U.S. There's no purely one race, especially here...
...Most directors attribute their current choices of plays to their own personal tastes. Dorothy Fortenberry '02 of Uncommon Women and Others notes that while she is concerned about the absence of minority playwrights in Harvard theater, she as a European-American woman would be uncomfortable attempting to direct a work by a minority. "Would I be able to do it justice?" she wonders...