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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Maybe, but it doesn't ultimately matter. Immigration has done its work. It has changed Australia irrevocably. Nobody old enough to remember the dullness of its old monocultural cuisine can regret that. The British Empire has gone. The British Commonwealth is no longer, to put it mildly, a decisive linkage between nations. The Australia Act of 1986 formally defined Britain as a foreign country. Australia's economic links to Britain, though not insignificant, are small and dwindling in comparison with its trading ties to the Near North, once known as the Far East. Britain is in the European Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Australia | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...much-awaited culmination never comes. All we’re left with is Malley’s student staring blankly at the screen, realizing (finally!) that he needs to take action and help change society. Or maybe that look on his face is a sudden feeling of regret that he acted in the film. As the film’s tagline reminds viewers, “If you don’t stand for something, you might fall for anything.” Redford challenges his viewers to take a public stance. We really didn’t need...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lions for Lambs | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...Klerk followed that statement with one of regret...

Author: By Erinn V. Westbrook, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: South African Leaders Talk State | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...Nacho has his own problems with Washington, saying tension between the two countries prevents him from visiting his son. "If the CIA sends someone to kill Chavez, they'll regret it," says Nacho. But he also says his American friends taught him the importance of giving, which he now sees as a pillar of socialism. "The American people are nice. They are good people. And we don't have anything against them. Some things that the government does against us, that's the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Everyone (Important) Is a Chavez | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...Efforts to win new legislation failed early this year, when leaders in the state Senate refused to hold hearings on a bill that would have set him free. In an op-ed he must surely regret now, Senate President Pro Tem Eric Johnson defended the legislature's failure to act. "Life comes with accountability for our decisions. Genarlow Wilson could have selected different friends to hang with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wilson's Sentence Overturned | 10/27/2007 | See Source »

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