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...Parting with Pounds After reading Josh Tyrangiel's essay "Getting Pounded," about the high cost of living in London [June 28], I couldn't help running around my office telling everyone that I wasn't just another non-Brit who thinks London is a complete and utter rip-off. Tyrangiel depicted my husband's and my sentiments exactly. May I reassure Tyrangiel that eventually it will get easier to part with his pounds. After a few years, he'll justify spending ?40 on a Diesel T shirt by telling himself he's worked so darned hard that he deserves...
...Pendleton Moab, Utah, U.S. Parting with Pounds After reading Josh Tyrangiel's essay "Getting Pounded," about the high cost of living in London [June 28], I couldn't help running around my office telling everyone I wasn't just another non-Brit who thinks London is a complete and utter rip-off. Tyrangiel depicted my husband's and my sentiments exactly. May I reassure Tyrangiel that eventually it will get easier to part with his pounds. After a few years, he'll justify spending ?40 on a Diesel T shirt by telling himself he's worked so darn hard that...
...Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson. "He believed in waging war for the right reasons--for example, a threat to U.S. sovereignty--not for capricious ones." Factoring into Jefferson's belief that America should restrain itself from engaging in international conflict was his optimistic image of the country's utter physical vastness and geographic impregnability. Here is how he characterized the nation in his first Inaugural Address: "Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room...
...woman show in Egypt has been one of the most amazing and rewarding experiences of my life. Along with the laughter, there have been painful reminders of economic discrepancies—incomplete, rundown houses with state-of-the-art satellite dishes trumpeting their poverty—and moments of utter discomfort (other than sunburns and mosquito bites) when we encounter local hostility...
...They got a living wage for their lowest paid, and as soon as they had that, they basically dropped out. They said they didn’t have a living wage problem at HUCTW, and they dropped out. The progressive labor community at large were thunderstruck by that utter lack of solidarity with the campaign...