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...missionaries have taken because this ban is not really about helping bar employees but about enforcing a way of life. A certain group of people, whether they be Starbucks swilling gym-junkie yuppies or the spiritual heirs of 1920s Prohibitionists, would like to see smoking banished from their gated kingdom. Their hand has been tipped by the most notorious of their lot, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has repeatedly called smokers “stupid” and “crazy,” and expressed disbelief that people didn’t drop their cigarettes in disgust...
Nepal, the world’s only Hindu kingdom, became a constitutional monarchy in 1990. Since then, insurgents throughout the nation have violently protested against the new government...
...expedition program, Ouyang Ziyuan, has told state-run media. Ultimately, he even hopes China can colonize other planets, although he expects it will take "some 200 years to reconstruct Mars to make it suitable to sustain human life." This is China's Great Leap Skyward. As an emergent Middle Kingdom increasingly struts its stuff on the international stage, Beijing wants to back up its claim to the mandate of heaven by going there. Of late, China has shown its global power by nudging North Korea into negotiations to end its nuclear weapons program, attending a Group of Eight meeting...
...addition to Gray’s family, numerous Harvard friends and former blockmates turned up to support her, flying in from as far as the United Kingdom...
There won’t be peace on Plympton until we send him somewhere far, far away, like Jordan. Not the Kingdom of Jordan, mind you, for Arafat’s already tried that before, but the dormitory of Jordan. Once we banish him to the Quad, we’ll be rid of him for good...