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...what makes for good friendship than what makes for good government, of where kindliness becomes interference, assistance domination: these are the old familiar battle lines. For their part, the allies may be wondering if the U.S. understood friendship as a true partnership or merely as a kind of protectorate, the protector now petulant and moody after several open rebuffs. Friendship applied to countries is as slippery as that applied to individuals, and must be safeguarded in similar ways. Each side has to realize when it has diverged too far-when, for the sake of the cheap thrill of discomfiting...
...already claimed more than 700 victims this year. Thousands of others thronged to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, where Romero's body lay in state, and joined a silent procession behind the cortege as it was taken to the Metropolitan Cathedral. "He was our father and protector," explained one grief-stricken woman carrying a small bouquet of yellow flowers. Said a middle-aged salesman: "The people will never forget this vile...
...Ezera was wrong. He now distrusts a system he once believed in--the system of American law enforcement. He now believes the only thing that could have kept him out of court would have been a different skin color. When Blacks attend Harvard, the school becomes a protector and the student becomes wrapped in a Harvard mystique--an air of arrogant complacency. Harvard offers a different view of the world, but it cannot change what the world outside actually looks like. Blacks may graduate and leave for the Law School, Business School or the corporate outside world, with their attire...
Charles II spent the next 11 years skulking about European capitals, with one disastrous attempt to claim his rightful crown. Parliament abolished the monarchy, and then General Oliver Cromwell declared himself the nation's Lord Protector. King Charles II, as he styled himself, though uncrowned, lived dependent on the charity of others. Fraser quite rightly emphasizes the humiliation and the poverty of these years. Charles II, unlike any other monarch of 17th-century Europe, learned about hunger and cold at first hand...
...several other of the island's 17 original forts are on a walking tour laid out by Statia's energetic historical foundation. One of the best beaches is on Tumble Down Dick Bay, apparently named after Oliver Cromwell's son and ill-starred successor as Lord Protector of England. The beaches on the brooding, windswept Atlantic side are more for roving than for swimming...