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This would all be of only passing interest if the British - and those such as Americans who, knowingly or not, trace their own systems of government to the ones the British established - had not taken it upon themselves of late to lecture the rest of the world on the wonders of democracy. The great men of 17th century Britain knew better. Forever arguing, disputing, pamphleteering, they were tormented by their own imperfections and those of the messy designs upon which they somehow built a functioning state. Humility, admission of error, a recognition that no form of government is without fault...
...plot (it has three in all). Launched in 1845 under the command of Sir John Franklin, its purpose was to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Franklin's ships were fitted with the bleeding edge of English naval technology, but the Arctic swallowed them and their crews with hardly a trace. Later explorers found evidence that Franklin's men had resorted to cannibalism before they finally died of hunger, disease and exposure...
...News was not so good for Terminator Salvation, which lost a steep 62% from last weekend's gross. This fourth episode in the John Connor saga could trace the sorry trajectory of this March's action film, Watchmen, which earned more than half its total domestic take in its first weekend. In plain English, that means the hard-core fans saw it immediately but didn't go back or convince others to buy tickets. It also suggests that certain action franchises do need a star. Given the tarnished fiscal state of the Golden State, Arnold Schwarzenegger may wish he were...
...nuances. The hypermarket run by French supermarket giant Carrefour at the Mid Valley Megamall in Kuala Lumpur is overwhelmingly halal, with an elaborate system to keep halal foods separate from the haram ones. Goods that divide scholars on whether they're halal or haram because they could have trace elements of wine - Balsamic vinegar, say, or Kikkoman Marinade - get slapped with little green stickers to alert customers. More blatantly haram items are confined to La Cave, a glassed-in room at the back of the store for goods containing alcohol, pork or tobacco. Wearing special blue gloves, La Cave...
...marijuana, according to an editor from the marijuana publication High Times magazine. The callback number on both messages matches a cell phone number registered to a Denise Cosby of Cambridge, Mass., according to Accurint, a subscription database owned by LexisNexis and used by law enforcement and legal agencies to trace personal information. Phone calls made to that number today went straight to a voice message that sounded like it was recorded by a young man but which contained no identification information...