Word: manly
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...arts educator Brother Joseph McNally and prominent architect Liu Thai Ker - saw an artistic and commercial opportunity for the city state. They put forward a proposal that the government not only acquire Tyler's works and machinery but also establish a world-beating institute under the guidance of the man many believe to be the greatest printer alive. When the Cabinet balked at the $15 million required, the Totalisator Board, a state body, stepped...
...Take the case of Tan Zuoren, a man charged with "inciting subversion of state power." In August I went to Sichuan to testify at his trial. Tan is an editor and environmentalist, not a revolutionary. But like my father, Tan asks the important questions and says what he thinks. Now, as then, that's a dangerous thing in China. If you open your mouth to point out something that is clearly wrong, if you believe in your essential right to speak, then you can be labeled an enemy of the state. (See pictures of the making of modern China...
...This phenomenon relates not just to authoritarian countries or so-called managed democracies, but also to Western nations that proselytize about democratic values. Why else have Italians voted three times for a man who has sought to dismantle an independent judiciary and control the media? Why have Britons acquiesced in illiberalism to such an extent that local councils eavesdrop on the telephone calls and e mails of people they suspect of disposing of their garbage in the wrong place? Why do so many middle-class Indians either insulate themselves from the corruption of public and political life or, worse, participate...
...were destined to fight it the second we founded our country. The man who wrote the sentence of the Declaration that begins, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," owned more than 100 human beings. It is, as the great historian Shelby Foote said, "the crossroads of our being...
...person who did not leave Chelsea alone was her father. In acclaimed historian Taylor Branch's new book The Clinton Tapes - woven from Branch's recorded conversations with the President from 1993 to 2001 - the portrait of the relationship between Bill Clinton, a man who never knew his own father, and his daughter reveals a side we rarely saw on the public stage. Bill Clinton, it turns out, raised a daughter and ran the free world, sometimes in that order...