Word: ry
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...year of debate about such lofty issues as God's place in a new constitution and Europe's role in outer space, the European Convention returned to earth last week with a thud. The grandly named Convention on the Future of Europe, led by former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, has been meeting since February 2002 to thrash out a new architecture for an enlarged European Union of 25 states. With just under two months to go before the body presents its draft constitution, Giscard infuriated delegates by unilaterally unveiling proposals for a radical overhaul...
...Ry Cooder's 1997 collaboration with a group of septuagenarian Cuban musicians, Buena Vista Social Club, sold 8 million copies and earned a Grammy for Best Tropical Latin Performance. It also earned Cooder a $100,000 fine from the U.S. government. "I learned that what Buena Vista means to the people who enforce the [Cuba trade and travel] embargo," says Cooder, "is not very much...
...poets are anti-slavery. An anonymous English lady thoughtfully composed songs for plantation slaves to sing while working: "Bless the fields we dig and plant! / Lord! supply our ev'ry want: / Give our souls and bodies food, / And grateful hearts for ev'ry good." James Boswell took time out from finishing the "Life of Johnson" to write an excruciatingly bad (and long) poem defending slavery, "No Abolition of Slavery," a work that until now has not been republished for some 210 years...
...pain'd, My soul is sick with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man. The nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own, and having pow'r T' inforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. . . . And worse than all, and most...
...Central Europeans will find their homecoming a rude awakening: "I don't believe the fairy tales about a community of loving European states. It's a power struggle, where each country tries to maximize its gains." In the European Convention now meeting under the leadership of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, delegates from around Europe, including the candidate countries, are exploring how to overhaul the E.U. to make it closer to voters and more effective. Its result, believes Liberal M.E.P. Andrew Duff, will be "a transfer of sovereignty" to the E.U.'s central institutions - which unless handled deftly could...