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...been very impressed by my college and my department. Oxford campus life is fun and fulfilling, and England is a charming and accommodating home. At Oxford I feel lucky to be in a community of so many remarkable international graduate students, including the incredible non-American Rhodes Scholars...
...argument, and neither did the three-judge panel to which the government appealed. Omar was a U.S. citizen, the panel decided, and no matter their label, the soldiers holding him worked for the Pentagon. Besides, Omar had never been charged or convicted, so there were no rulings of a non-American authority to trip over. The U.S. courts could hear the case...
...Julia Child of wine. An internationally renowned wine writer and TV-show host, she is also a member of the Royal Household Wine Committee, which chooses the wines that the Queen serves her guests. Robinson's advice is impeccable, her wit dry and her take on wine refreshingly non-American. Recommending the Montes Reserve Sauvignon Blanc 2005 Casablanca Valley from Chile, she describes it as "quintessentially an aperitif, but if you were to drink it with a well-dressed salad, it would not rise up and bite...
...World Cup that has been on my mind as the year draws to an end. Notwithstanding that meadow in Aspen?or the record TV audiences in the U.S. for the tournament, or the fact that nobody takes the U.S. team lightly these days?the World Cup is a distinctly non-American global event. That makes it unusual. In most aspects of modern life, we have become accustomed to think that the U.S. will dominate, call the shots, shape the way everyone else conducts themselves. But in football (for some, surely, this is part of its charm) the U.S. is just...
...Around the same time, the American film industry spread its power and conquered the world, dominating every market it was allowed into. And Americans became more self-centered, less interested in anything non-American, including movies. This ignorance of national, ethnic, religious and artistic cultures different from, even alien to, ours was reflected in American movie habits as well as in American foreign policy. In both cases, by wearing those blinkers we missed out on what the rest of the world thought of itself...