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...tournament hosted 188 teams from approximately 20 countries and was conducted in the Scottish style of debate...
...public relations mode. He's a clever lad, practical in business matters yet irreverent at heart. He's eager to put you at ease, but he gets miffed if you pry too closely. Just a few friends ever see the McCartney house, set in the forest in Sussex. His & Scottish estate is reachable only by foot across a bog or by four-wheel drive. Decades of Beatlemania haven't dehumanized him, but he has learned to be wary...
...operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example, "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which lived that he was a representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said...
...million population). Examples of a burgeoning Aboriginal presence in Australian literature and music include Sally Morgan's 1987 autobiography, My Place, which chronicled a woman's discovery of her black identity; the 1990 musical Bran Nue Dae by Jimmy Chi, an Aborigine who also claims Japanese, Chinese and Scottish strains of descent; and the rock band Yothu Yindi. There may be a parallel between the Aboriginal Renaissance and a recent surge in white Australian self-discovery. For the first time, archives across the country are besieged by people looking for their family history -- seeking, to borrow from Morgan's title...
...book, Lockerbie: The Tragedy of Flight 103, Scottish radio reporter David Johnston disclosed that British army searches of the wreckage recovered more than $500,000 cash, believed to belong to the hostage-rescue team, and what appeared to be a detailed plan of a building in Beirut, with two crosses marking the location of the hostages. The map also pinpointed the positions of sentries guarding the building and contained a description of how the building might be taken...