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...Seated in the Armoury, a second-story room lined with muskets, swords, pikes and other antique weaponry, the summiteers listened as Thatcher broached her notion of the political communiqué on democratic values. Thatcher felt strongly about the idea. "The Brits are treating this like it's the Magna Carta," said a U.S. official...
...diplomatic opening. From the moment her Royal Air Force VC-10 touched down in Budapest, the Prime Minister sought to find and build on shared moments in history to strengthen the connections between the two countries. At a gala banquet in her honor, she noted that the Magna Carta of 1215 had been an influence on the Golden Bull, a similar document drawn up by a King of Hungary seven years later. She also noted that the bridge across the Danube near the Országház (parliament) was a copy of the Hammersmith Bridge over the Thames...
...majored in mathematics at Harvard College. After graduating summa cum laude, he began a Ph.D. program in math, specializing in the rarefied subject of algebraic topology. Midway through the doctoral program, he decided that mathematics would be too "lonely" a pursuit and enrolled in Harvard Law School. He finished magna cum laude in 1966, and a year later was selected as law clerk for now retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart...
Tadashi and I had left the bullet train, on which we got to know each other, at Niigata and had taken a limited southwest down along the blue Sea of Japan. At the coastal city of Itoigawa we caught a primitive local that followed the Fossa Magna, that grand cleft dividing interior Japan, up into the Hida range. The train chugged upcountry, passing through hot-spring villages where station names were no longer in Roman letters, passing the jade mines at Kotaki. The railroad paralleled the Himekawa, a river that seemed to flow granite, so stony and gray...
...founding impulses of America were not original. They came from the Magna Carta, from the British Bill of Rights, from Locke and Montesquieu, from St. Augustine and Nicholas of Cusa ("Since all men are by nature free, then government rests on the consent of the governed") and a hundred other places. The young, exuberant colonies fused them into revolution...