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...which makes it difficult to catch an experienced team." The end would come in the 73rd minute when substitute Daniel Güiza latched on to a give-and go pass and lobbed one past Akinfeev. Then in the 82nd minute Cesc Fàbregas broke down the left wing and found David Silva for the finishing blow...
True patriotism, in our view, means "country before self." And unpacking "country before self" yields a set of moral principles like stewardship, mutual obligation, shared sacrifice, service to others, and contribution before consumption. These principles are inherently progressive - not in the euphemistic sense of being left-wing but in the literal sense of expressing what it takes to make progress toward fulfilling America's stated ideals...
...bloodless coup. (Thaksin, a billionaire tycoon, was subsequently banned from politics and now faces corruption charges, which he denies.) A year of uninspired army junta rule followed. In elections last December, voters, who had once handed Thaksin the largest mandate in recent Thai history, brought to power right-wing firebrand Samak, who through his People Power Party (PPP) openly campaigned as Thaksin's proxy. Although Samak has in recent weeks distanced himself from his polarizing predecessor, his cabinet teems with Thaksin acolytes. Thaksin's former spokesman is now Foreign Minister, while his brother-in-law is deputy prime minister. Three...
...people think patriotism means "my country right or wrong," leave it at home and tell them about Frederick Douglass, who wouldn't celebrate the Fourth of July while his fellow Americans were in bondage. And if you're going to a meeting of the cultural-studies department at Left-Wing U., where patriotism often means "my country wrong and wronger," slap it on, and tell them about Mike Christian, who lay half-dead in a North Vietnamese jail, stitching an American flag...
Instead of rendering the Second Amendment a dormant law, the Court's ruling has given it life. "It is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct," Scalia wrote. That view aligns the Court's conservative wing with most current scholarly interpretations, says Barnett, the Georgetown professor. But despite finally affixing its imprimatur on a reading of the convoluted Amendment, the Court's ruling raises nearly as many questions as it settles. As Justice Stevens wrote, it "leaves for future cases the formidable task of defining the scope" of its impact...