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...nationalism. European kings and queens traditionally exacted loyalty to themselves as representatives of a royal family, not embodiments of an ethnic or cultural type. Czardom was rough on some minorities, notably Jews and Muslims. But it was surprisingly tolerant of most of the non-Russians who made up its quilt of an empire. Czarist indulgence extended even to the Mennonites, German-speaking Protestant pacifists, the boat people of 18th century Europe, whom hardly any other country would tolerate. As long as the Mennonites in Russia kept to themselves, the Romanovs didn't care how they spoke or prayed...
Other activities the group is considering includes meeting with a Palestinian women's group and discussing the Middle East peace process. In addition, members suggested making a patchwork quilt, folk dancing and a cooking get-together as possible activities...
Such praise from a South African head of state would, not so long ago, have been unthinkable. For nearly 40 years, Gordimer has spoken out against apartheid, that crazy quilt of laws and restrictions that enabled the white minority to control and suppress the country's black majority. She has done so in her fiction, although subtly and without tub thumping; she portrays the strains of racial divisiveness and oppression by monitoring their effect on individual characters, recognizable lives. As a private citizen, Gordimer has often engaged in more direct opposition to her government's policies...
...must first secure the consent of a majority of its students' parents. In the two years since Thatcher's plan went into effect, 102 schools have cut their ties; 11 are on the verge of final action; 88 more await government approval. They are the first patches in a quilt of autonomous schools -- which are tax supported and tuition free but in effect can operate as if they were privately run -- that the country's Conservative government hopes will blanket the country...
...Soviet Union? That huge blob of blood red that dominated maps of the Eurasian landmass for 70 years now broken up into a crazy quilt of squirming lines enclosing a kaleidoscope of colors? The concept is even harder to grasp than the idea of a noncommunist Soviet Union. There had once -- for centuries, in fact -- been something like that, in the form of the Russian empire. But no monolithic state covering that immense area -- none...