Word: linke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current issues dramatize the difference. It sometimes comes as a surprise to Americans to realize that Queen Elizabeth II is still, technically, the Head of State of Australia. At the moment Australia is agonizing over breaking this last link with Britain and what used to be Empire and converting itself into a republic. It is not as simple as it sounds, because it involves amending the Constitution which has always been a difficult process in Australia...
Still, all this adds up to more than a bit of intrigue on my part, so I dial up the restaurant to arrange for a visit. And on Saturday afternoon I make the three-minute walk over to the Charles Hotel to link up with Kate Tazoy, a manager at Rialto who's agreed to let me shadow her for a couple of hours...
Ever since he was a frail child with a disproportionately big head, David Ben-Gurion was always clear about his next move, about the Jewish people's destination, about the link between his steps and the deliverance of the Jews in their biblical homeland...
According to Williams, the Asian temples for Asians in America link religious identity with cultural identity. He points out that ethnic Buddhist temples often offer culture and language classes as well as services...
...symbolic figure as the penguin is, the Penmaster pushes the idea quite a bit further than a simple intellectual statement. He presents an annotated list of the "most evil penguins" on the planet; a "Penguin Update" for up-to-the- minute information on the penguin revolution; and a link to a "corporation" called "Penco," which offers "the best in penguin care products and penguin accessories." This company even has a very noir vision statement--"A penguin on every desktop, monitoring your every movement"--a definite allusion to the concept of surveillance, which is a fundamental tenet of the noir genre...