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...a bear hugging a map of America’s most populous state, with the slogan, “I Love You California”....
...the United States....
...Along a mile stretch of road, the pledge of allegiance is spelt out on a series of signs. “I pledge allegiance . . .” “ . . . to the flag . . .” “ . . . of the United States of America . . .”...
...Sections of road that should take five minutes to traverse can take hours because of necessary backtracking....
...If you go to the cloisters of the war memorial, you see that we left our dead, not just on the western front and Gallipoli, but the Sinai, Palestine, the Boxer Rebellion, you know, all over the world....
...All this had implications of course for an increasingly multiracial United Kingdom....
...He gets a bit of money from the state thanks to his disability cheque, but it’s not enough to live on anywhere else....
...And then, after two months of holding squares across the United States, Occupy was hit by the authorities....
...Flanked by former vice-president Al Gore, New York governor Andrew Cuomo last year signed what he called “the most aggressive climate law in the United States of America”....
...But what about the memorial to Civil War hero Robert Gould Shaw which sits in front of the Massachusetts State House on Boston Common? We don’t have to like them....
...The difference between our perspectives came home to me at the memorial to veterans of the Korean war as we stood in front of a granite block engraved with the toll: Dead — United States: 54,246, United...
...Jamaica, Singapore, the Netherlands and Canada, and private sector finance executives such as Anne Finucane of Bank of America and Mark Wiseman of BlackRock....
...“America is a country of immigrants, whatever the rhetoric coming from politics.”...
...As for explaining why that man is president of the United States, the musings of this motley and diverse cast still left me bewildered....
...In 1914 there were just over 50 internationally recognised states, mostly in Europe and the Americas....
...“One time, everything was just melting all around me,” he says, describing a Grateful Dead show on New Year’s eve. “One of the artists had a bottle of wine with a whole bunch of doses of acid in....
...(WSJ) MUFG v Nomura The Japanese banks have travelled different roads to international growth. Which global strategy has worked better? (FT) Is Cathay Pacific heading into Chinese hands?...
...And it is all a result of one man. (The Atlantic) Man v machine Sensitivity to “gut feelings” is a strong predictor of success in financial trading, according to research led by Cambridge university....
...Wiesel spoke at the dedication of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in 1993. His words are now carved in stone at its entrance: “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”...
...“Zimbabwe is dead.”...
...Come to think of it, each continent tells the same story: each consists of so many awful cities: the United States is choked with them. Countries from Central and South America are worse....
...The victims included Liu Shaoqi, then China’s head of state. China The cultural revolution is not mentioned at “The Road to Rejuvenation”, the exhibit at China’s national museum....
...[If] you’re in that middle ground, your road is so much harder.”...
...into a memorial park....
...the symbol of a certain melancholic or maundering state of mind . . . a memorial to the fallen of an ancient or recent war . . . a desolate playground in whose cracked and weed-infested precincts we have...
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