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...would not negotiate until the Argentines withdrew. "We have to recover those islands," she declared in a television interview. Evoking Queen Victoria's words from the "black week" of December 1899, when attacking British forces were being repulsed in the Boer War, she declaimed: "Failure? The possibilities do not exist. I'm not talking about failure. I am talking about supreme confidence in the British fleet, superlative troops, excellent equipment. We must use all our professionalism, our flair, every single bit of native cunning and all our equipment. We must go out calmly, quietly, to succeed...
...strategy might raise a few million dollars for the school—and would likely reach a logical end with the “J.P. Morgan Faculty of Arts and Sciences”—but everyone knows that the school is not exactly cash-strappedThere do exist, however, even more absurd methods for naming a department. Ask the United States government, which could not have done worse its current moniker for our consolidated domestic security bureaucracy: the “Department of Homeland Security.”“Homeland Security” is a chilling...
Though it took few seats, the Alliance has much to be pleased about. Its leaders won high marks from press and public for conducting a thoughtful, positive campaign, and it showed that 7 million Britons were willing to vote for a partnership that did not exist two years ago. The Alliance may not have broken the mold of British politics, but it has surely left a few cracks. Declares an S.D.P. strategist: "We are not stopping...
...couldn’t find anybody in Hollywood playing a character like this that you would believe that was an everyday kind of person. Because all the actresses they are very chiseled and beautiful.”Although such flawed personalities don’t exist for Miniucchi in Hollywood, she sees them everywhere else.“I think there are people like this all over the place. I think that we are like that ourselves. I think that each one of us has a good side, and an angrier side, and we just shift them around in more...
...Ironically, all of these new suburbs in Shanghai, mine included, bill themselves as environmentally friendly. And relatively speaking, they are. There is green space here - large grassy parks and small lawns, which don't exist in the city. But things have hardly started yet. I recently asked a retired Shanghai city planner how much thought had gone into the environmental consequences of the Short March. He sighed. "We know people will probably have to drive more. There will be more cars on the streets everywhere. But there are other important factors to consider." Such as? He paused, and just rotated...