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...poorest county in England, despite large numbers of "settlers" like me. Its population receives wages 20% lower than the U.K. average, it receives E.U. aid, and there is a serious lack of affordable housing. It's very humbling to live with such generous and openhearted people. Alaisdair Raynham, TRURO, ENGLAND...
...come to like Thanksgiving even though it was not a big deal in Canada at all. It’s an acquired tradition when I moved here to Cambridge...We spend it in Truro, where the pilgrims landed before they came to Plymouth. They anchored in Provincetown and they sent out a party that found water and corn in Truro. They thanked God when they should have really thanked the Indians...
...become Americans, the better their chance of forestalling economic decline." Are you really trying to promote an even greater brain drain from the developing world? I refuse to believe it. I'm sure you don't mean "Long live America - and to hell with the Third World." Alaisdair Raynham, TRURO, ENGLAND...
...bottom lines, many are simply taking ships out of service, says Kriton Lendoudis, managing director of Athens-based Evalend Shipping. Hundreds of vessels have been laid up off Britain, Germany, Greece and Singapore over the past several months. In the River Fal estuary, near the old port city of Truro on Britain's southwest tip, harbor master Andy Brigden runs a service for companies looking for long-term berth space. Since early November, he says, the number of inquiries has skyrocketed. "It had been quiet here for many years, just a few seasonal moorings," says Brigden. "In my experience, this...
...during the presidential election of November 1960, when Kennedy narrowly defeated Nixon. This was, we felt, the beginning of a new age. Many people have a similar feeling today. Please, Mr. Obama, demonstrate your distance from the discredited neocon gang by abandoning this symbol of nationalistic unilateralism. Alaisdair Raynham, TRURO, ENGLAND...