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...some British foreign policies. Like Thatcher he opposes any further political integration of the 12-nation European Community, but he does not share her aversion to greater economic unity. He said in a recent speech that Britain's "rightful place" was "at the very heart of Europe," a remark no one could imagine Thatcher making...
Simpson does not deny making the remark but says the transcript reflects only 15 minutes of a three-hour meeting and omits the Senators' remonstrations with Saddam about the use of poison gas by Iraq, its efforts to build super- long-range artillery weapons and its threats against Israel. Saddam offered to take the group via helicopter to the Kurdish region. "I will show you that I am beloved by the Kurds," he said. Outside in the hotel parking lot, five helicopters were ready. When the Senators declined, uniformed officers in the room laughed derisively, Simpson says. (Later the Senators...
...veterans at the shelter, almost 40 percent of whom participated in the Vietnam War, remark at the significant differences between their experiences 20 years ago and the experiences of today's troops, noting the difference in the government's and the public's attitude toward the troops then...
...Rhodes scholar at Oxford in 1986, Wolf had planned to write about the theme of beauty in literature. The Beauty Myth began taking shape when she heard someone remark that she had won the scholarship because of her looks. Says Wolf: "I had an image of the documents I had presented to the committee -- my essay, a book of poems I had written, letters of recommendation -- and the whole of it being swept away by that one sentence." Once she learned that other female Rhodes scholars had had similar tales told about them, she developed a new theme: that discussions...
Secondly, interracial relationships--the issue I sought to address in my multiethnic dating remark--are still viewed as taboo and as deviating from a supposed "norm." We are all familiar with the derogatory term "Asian fetish" sometimes used to describe a relationship between a non-Asian man and an Asian woman. There, I submit, lies your real racism...