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...indifferent allies after all the largesse we have lavished on them, what makes her think they'll be more tractable after we pass a gratuitous resolution that insults them? We should oppose the resolution because it would be an empty gesture certain to damage our international position. This is plain irresponsibility at a time when American troops are still mired in the thankless Iraq adventure. Bikash Roy, Cary...
...indifferent allies after all the largesse we have lavished on them, what makes her think they'll be more tractable after we pass a gratuitous resolution that insults them? We should oppose the resolution because it would be an empty gesture certain to damage our international position. This is plain irresponsibility at a time when American troops are still mired in the thankless Iraq adventure. Bikash Roy, CARY...
...repository of experience and expertise that might be transported home to improve the lot of one’s countrymen. It’s a scenario that’s difficult not to romanticize.It’s all much harder when you come from plain-and-simple Canada or, worse, from the American Midwest or Southwest or South or West or Northwest or anywhere but two cities in California and one in Illinois. Take the romance out of your place of origin, and not moving up to the big leagues is hard to justify...
...just plain mad. For starters I’ve never considered my natural accent to be particularly grating. It’s more Southern city-dweller than country-bumpkin...
...during lunch, and no one in the morning or night.” Welch said he had to spend more than three months renovating the equipment he had inherited from Campo de Fiori. The restaurant started in the kitchen of a catering business in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood and is noted for its “daily special” pizza, such as a Bartlett pear and spinach combination. “Our name is symbolic. I really wanted a word to express that the specialty of the day wouldn’t be offered tomorrow...