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...Modern readers will also be obliged to overlook De Monfreid's unabashed racism and brusque, culturally superior attitude, which were both products of their time. On a ship from Marseilles to Greece, for example, De Monfreid scowls at a throng of Russian peasants, whom he finds "as uncouth and primitive as the Somali Bedouins." And the book is further marred by the same sort of excessive nautical argot (starboard this, lateen that) that makes Moby Dick such a tough sea of words to oar through. But whenever De Monfreid reaches land and begins to describe the gallery of rogues...
...Even before the measures were formally announced, Washington was casting the proposals as old-fashioned trade protectionism under the modern guise of mitigating climate change. "We have been dismayed at a variety of suggestions where we have seen the climate and the environment being used as an excuse to close markets," said U.S. trade representative Susan Schwab...
...them. They didn't in the last war in the Gulf (1990-91), when the Kuwaiti army collapsed in a blink. As the Saudi army did when Saddam attacked Khafji. Both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia at the time were armed with some of the most modern and sophisticated arms in the world. Why should we think it would be any different today with Saudi Arabia trying to contain Iran...
...with President Zapatero all the obvious ways that the PP will attack him," says Lakoff, "from his dealings with ETA, to the economy, to regional autonomy and civil rights. But then I said, 'Look, this campaign is about one thing: do Spaniards want to continue to build a progressive, modern democracy, or do they want to return to the kind of authoritarian regime that the PP wants?' The truth isn't enough - you have to frame it so people will understand it." A leader betting his reelection on the conviction that his compatriots are as progressive as he is should...
Once that happened Saturday morning, the Jesuits' modern press operation quickly sent out a press release biography, and a rare photo of the bespectacled new leader. Indeed Nicolas, who has lived almost uninterruptedly in the Far East since 1964, was not on the shortlist of those experts trying to predict who would get the nod. One Jesuit source said, only half-jokingly, after learning of the choice: "He doesn't like Rome...