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...included my hometown, concentration, and extracurriculars. I pushed send. A week passed. Then a month. Then I began to worry. Something was wrong. Who was this Nick character? Armed with his Anglo-Saxon last name and my Facebook stalking savoir faire, I hunted him down. From Jersey. Tennis player. Buzz cut. That’s about...

Author: By Charles J. Wells | Title: Freedom to Float | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...Santander's director general and an architect of its international expansion. Inciarte says Santander will give Sovereign the same treatment it gave the U.K.'s Abbey National bank, an ailing mortgage provider it bought for $11.2 billion in stock in 2004. It was Santander's first foray into Anglo-Saxon territory, and it met contemptuous resistance to Botín's "Spanish paper," in the words of one shareholder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santander: The Most Boring Bank in the World | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...that are bigger than us." For some, the stories have also come to symbolize French anxiety over globalization; the character of Asterix is used as a poster boy for independent-minded people everywhere in the struggle against the hegemonic power of the day, be it Roman imperialists or Anglo-Saxon capitalists. (See pictures of kids' books coming to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asterix at 50: The Comic Hero Conquers the World | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...with so-called metal detectorists, who make a hobby - and often an obsession - out of unearthing treasure from the country's rich past. Occasionally they strike gold, like Terry Herbert, a 55-year-old Staffordshire man who, it was announced Sept. 24, discovered more than 11 lb. of Anglo-Saxon gold on a farm north of Birmingham. But mudlarks, who consider themselves lite archaeologists, tend to view treasure seekers with disdain. While anyone can obtain a permit to search the five or so miles of the river's southern foreshore between Westminster and Wapping, the 51 licensed mudlarks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Following in the Footsteps of the Mud God | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...Angeles are as much or more about a polyglot patchwork of such self-contained ethnic communities as they are about anything that could be called a dominant culture. Indeed, even whatever could loosely be called a “dominant culture” derived from white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, is like the croutons in a soup whose broth and flavor come from African-Americans, Jews, and other historically oppressed minorities. The immigrant can imagine him or herself adding spice to this soup. The melting pot beckons. The very ease with which one can defer assimilation in the United States seems...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: The Melting Pot Beckons | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

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