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...cause of this opposition lies in the increasing disempowerment of both the British individual and the British state. Moreover, the British taxpayer has to pay a very substantial amount of money to the E.U. each year, an organization that cannot, will not or dare not, tell us how it is all spent. Elliott makes the point that the U.S. wants Britain to be central to European policy; that's all very well, but it is increasingly clear that this is not what the people of Britain want. If Britain is a democracy then the will of her people alone should...
...singular achievement of Dalrymple, in his strikingly chaste and selfless book, to give us the lives and voices of some regular Indian and Pakistani worshippers without judgment, speculation or high-flown abstraction. He just sets the scene around them, presents some historical background and lets them tell their stories. A prison warden explains how he takes off two months every year to become (along with a waiter, a bus conductor and a man who collects coconut juice) a divinely possessed dancer. A Tibetan monk recalls how he found himself taking up arms against Chinese invaders. A temple dancer - or sacred...
...want to be in the E.U. They see the increasing disempowerment of both the British individual and the British state. Moreover, the British taxpayer has to pay a substantial amount of money to the E.U. each year, to an organization that cannot, will not or dares not tell us how it is all spent. C.S. Lewis, Derby, England
Ronald Reagan did. "I didn't know when it would come, but I have to tell you, I'm an eternal optimist," the former President said in an interview with ABC's Sam Donaldson that night. "I believed in all my heart it was in the future." Two years earlier, Reagan had addressed a crowd of some 20,000 near Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Wall. At the time, even his closest advisers dismissed the notion as far-fetched. "It's a great speech line," Reagan's National Security Adviser, Frank...
MONDAY Asian American Female Sexuality Ticknor Lounge, 5 p.m. A dinner discussion with Lena Chen ’10 (don’t tell us you don’t know who she is), Christine Yu (an MIT student who talks about sex in her blog “Nerdy and Flirty”), and Vivien Wu ’08 (who, as far as we can tell, does not talk about sex in any blog...