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...That interpretation raised wry smiles in Westminster, where cynical voices speak of the Prime Minister's last dash to secure his legacy by removing some of the stain of Iraq before he leaves office later this year. Defense experts also point to criticisms leveled last October by General Sir Richard Dannatt, then only six weeks into his new job as Chief of the General Staff. Britain should "get ourselves out sometime soon because our presence exacerbates the security problems. We are in a Muslim country, and Muslims' views of foreigners in their country are quite clear," said Britain's most...
...ancestry, however remote. This is the infamous one-drop rule, invented and imposed by white racists until the middle of the 20th century. As with so many other areas of ethno-racial relations, African Americans turned this racist doctrine to their own ends. What to racist whites was a stain of impurity became a badge of pride. More significantly, what for whites was a means of exclusion was transformed by blacks into a glorious principle of inclusion. The absurdity of defining someone as black who to all appearances was white was turned on its head by blacks who used...
...advertising firms, even a restaurant where money was allegedly handed over to party bosses in paper bags - at the center of the scandal that forced the Liberals from office. It was a reminder that it may take more than one leadership convention for the party to shed entirely the stain of scandal and corruption...
...Assault Sexual Harassment (SASH) group {SEE CORRECTION BELOW} met last night, focusing on a few infamous words in the song “Fuck Harvard 2006” that was released shortly before Saturday’s Harvard-Yale game: “I will rape you repeatedly and stain your linens crimson...
...Yale personally, there is help. The good people at Harvard’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions (617-495-1551) are available Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Take this weekend’s biannual conference seriously. Together we can make Yale only a dark blue stain on our memory...