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...bloatware." When I want a user-friendly interface, I use a Mac; when I want a stable, flexible system with enormous power, I use Linux; and when I want to be reminded of just how good these other two systems are, I boot up my Windows machine. TIMO HANNAY Tokyo...
...young and idealistic clergyman--seem inevitable. As Smith tells it, the town of Wigan is a place of impacted resentments on the part of the miners and supercilious contempt on the part of the clan that owns the mine workings, ruled by a righteous and merciless cleric, Bishop Hannay. Into this nexus of bitterness and coal dust comes Jonathan Blair, a penniless, malarial and more than slightly gin-sodden African explorer. Blair, who was born in Wigan, would rather be anywhere else, but the wealthy bishop, whose hobby is African exploration--this is the era of Burton, Speke...
...ordinary Haitian people will feel the effects. "I'm afraid that experience has shown that sanctions applied to totalitarian military regimes invariably do result in suffering for ordinary people," remarked David Hannay, Britain's ambassador...
...accused Europe and the U.S. of being more concerned with "the rich man's war" in Bosnia than with the fate of the starving in Somalia. He picked a fight with both Lord Carrington, then the European Community's chief negotiator in the Balkan crisis, and Sir David Hannay, Britain's U.N. ambassador, over the same issue, commenting that it was "maybe because I am a wog" that he had been criticized in the British press...
...ends. The narrowly conceived military action will bring food to the famished while U.S. troops are present, but what happens when they leave? And how exactly do they achieve the Security Council's prescribed goal of a "secure environment" ? Said Britain's ambassador to the U.N., Sir David Hannay: "It's like the elephant coming out of the jungle. You know it when...