Word: sydney
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When I taught a course on Australian history in the fall, I began by showing slides of Australia's two most recognized icons--Uluru (or Ayer's Rock) and the Sydney Opera House. They make an interesting pair. That extraordinary monolith, Uluru, not only serves as an image of the Outback, but, as an Aboriginal sacred site, of the culture of the first Australians. The Sydney Opera House on the other hand, a symbol of modernism in expansive mood, reminds us that Australia is also a highly urbanized society capable of producing its own monuments...
Americans visiting Australia--and quite a few do these days--sometimes come with expectations of finding a "last frontier" inhabited by Crocodile Dundee look-alike. A carefully framed tourist schedule can, up to a point, sustain the illusion, but a few days in Sydney or Melbourne will soon out you right. At first you might be struck by a sense of familiarity--what might be called the McDonald's syndrome--but Australia, however receptive it has been to America influences, is a very different society with a different history...
...Simpson's two children have never asked him about their mother's bloody 1994 murder, their father, who was acquitted in the killing, told the BBC. "Sydney has never mentioned it once, never asked about it," Simpson said in a transcript published Sunday. (The interview will be aired on the British network later this month.) "Not even my son. He has never even once mentioned it," said Simpson. The former star football player, sports commentator and actor added that he has never wanted to talk to his daughter, Sydney, 12, and son, Justin, 9, about their mother's murder. Regarding...
...Gulf War. A signature on a piece of paper is meaningless. What matters is the character of the person signing it. History repeats itself. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan seems as naive to me as Chamberlain. Annan came back from Baghdad with a worthless piece of paper. PAUL MONTAGUE Sydney...
AUSTRALIA "There has been quite a tradition of American feminists tolerating in their elected allies behaviour that would in other circumstances earn condemnation and even ostracism." --Anne Summers, Sydney Morning Herald...