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...Muslim anger against the West "is no less than a clash of civilizations - the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the worldwide expansion of both." The phrase "clash of civilizations," later popularized by Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington, is now regularly invoked by political analysts to explain images of angry demonstrators in an Arab country chanting anti-American slogans. Though the concept is subtle and complex in the hands of these two leading academics, the media tend to boil it down to this: the cultures...
...Africa; by APHRODITE, an albatross sponsored by Jerry Hall, former model and ex-wife of rock star Mick Jagger; at the Cape of Good Hope. The race follows the migratory route of the Tasmanian Shy albatross. Second place went to Xanadu, sponsored by Nicholas Coleridge, a descendent of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
...denied that he was a great and true American. His Christian belief and conduct exemplified the vision of our country's Founding Fathers. He is accused of having been too far to the right, but when I examine the man, I see someone who was simply well centered. Samuel D. Hopper Palmdale, California, U.S. Reagan's White House years were America's best. We were proud of ourselves, our country and our President. We felt secure in the knowledge that Reagan was at the helm of the nation. I don't think we will ever see the likes...
...many as 1.25 million Europeans and Americans were enslaved. The Barbary raiders--so called because they were partly of Berber origin--struck as far north as England and Ireland. It appears, for example, that almost every inhabitant of the Irish village of Baltimore was carried off in 1631. Samuel Pepys and Daniel Defoe both mention the frightening trade in their writings; at that time, pamphlets and speeches by survivors and escaped slaves had a huge influence on the popular imagination. James Thomson's famously rousing 1740 song Rule Britannia, with its chorus about how Britons "never shall be slaves...
...denied that he was a great and true American. His Christian belief and conduct exemplified the vision of our country's Founding Fathers. He is accused of having been too far to the right, but when I examine the man, I see someone who was simply well centered. SAMUEL D. HOPPER Palmdale, Calif...