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Taking a break under a tree in Phnom Penh the day after Cambodia's July 27 national elections, the 46-year-old tire repairman said he voted for infrastructure when he cast his ballot in favor of Prime Minister Hun Sen's winning Cambodia People's Party. "In my district, we now have roads, a pond and a reservoir. These are the CPP's achievements," said Bon Tona. Though the opposition promised to combat the country's endemic corruption, promote greater government accountability, respect for human rights and end of land grabbing by the rich and powerful, Bon Tona said...
Perspective is everything in politics, and after nearly eight years of President George W. Bush's disastrous environmental policy, Attila the Hun would have looked green by comparison. Certainly Senator John McCain falls into that latter category. The presumptive Republican nominee was an advocate for taking action on global warming back when President Bush was still calling for more research into the problem. McCain hasn't been shy about touting his green credentials on the campaign trail - especially now that he has the Republican nomination sewn up and needs to appeal to independents worried about global warming. At the same...
...famous quotes from the speeches of the modern Western canon into a monologue that critiques the violence of our heroic leaders. “Four score and seven weeks ago, we came into this land, killing and raping everything we could get our hands on,” the Hun states. “But maybe you should ask not who the Huns can kill for you, but who you can kill for the Huns.” “Funny New York Things” is an obvious satire of the tourist’s demand...
...answer to relaxation. A typical productive-unproductive summer allows us to do something we enjoy because of its underlying academic or charitable purpose. Often it is as much work as a real job. Our desire to travel across Europe forces us to retrace the footsteps of Attila the Hun and write a travel narrative afterwards. If we want to lie around just doing nothing, it is because Kierkegaard once spent his summer lying around doing nothing, and we’re preparing an 80-page thesis on it. Perhaps we should blame Richard Henry Dana. In 1840, this Harvard student?...
...Leslie clan can trace its lineage back to Attila the Hun and was granted what was originally a 45,000-acre (18,000 ha.) estate by King Charles II as thanks for helping to keep Oliver Cromwell at bay. Sir John Leslie built the castle itself in 1870, and invited all his pre-Raphaelite artist friends - including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin and Frederic Leighton - to stay...