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...this? How did a society whose professed virtues were once those of duty, honor and discretion become a place of in-it-for-myself, let-it-all-hang-out emoting? Step forward those two women whose influence, combined - though one suspects they loathed each other - shaped a nation: Margaret Thatcher and Princess Diana...
Since then, Britons have remained skeptical about the possibilities of expanded political integration, and have consistently showed little enthusiasm for the organization. In 1988, then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher congratulated the College of Europe on their courage to invite her to speak about the Union. In truthful representation of the British feeling, she herself said inviting her to speak about integration was like inviting “Genghis Khan to speak on the virtues of peaceful coexistence.” Even today, the EU is as popular in Britain as President George W. Bush is in America...
...Blair administrations seemed rightly outraged by the event, but for a country that was central to the Iraqi invasion, they did not take hard enough measures. In a place where memories of empire evoke melancholy, commentators quickly forced the comparison between the current Prime Minister and Iron Lady Thatcher, who exactly 25 years ago imposed the British will by force, defeating an Argentine military invasion of the Malvinas islands. Remembering Teddy Roosevelt’s famous quote of diplomacy by sticks and carrots, the sensationalist Sun grudged that Britain “appears to have lost the stick...
...imagine people will have amendments—I don’t know who but it would be rather rare if there weren’t,” 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said last night. Ulrich, a member of the Docket Committee that oversees the agenda at Faculty meetings, said the legislation is the main item on the agenda for April...
...than simply protecting their department, noting that a failure to study the past would conflict with the mission of general education.“I think that students wouldn’t consider themselves educated if they only studied their own time period,” said historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor.She added that while at least half of the eight general education categories could be home to courses about the past, the history department’s role in the proposed curriculum was still unclear.“I just remain puzzled about the categories...