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...muted form, that criticism is still heard today. Argentine Theologian José Miguez-Bonino, a member of the six-person presidency of the World Council of Churches, says, "The missionary enterprise of the past 150 years is interwoven with the expansion of economic, political and cultural influence of the Anglo-Saxon world, whether Catholic or Protestant. We from the Third World call this neocolonialism or imperialism...
Refusing to learn to use a computer [July 19] is as stupid as trying to achieve status by not owning a TV set. As a professor of Anglo-Saxon and medieval studies, I look forward to updating and advancing my courses through computer research. Scholarly books and articles will also be produced much sooner by using electronic methods...
...once one abandons the initial shock at the unexpected decision the insanity defense of Hinckley's lawyers and psychiatrists seems well grounded in the Anglo-American justice tradition. That tradition punishes people for two reasons for crimes they knew they were committing, and for having had free will over the decision to commit the crime...
...most important historical point there is that is pointing to the state of mind of Roosevelt and Churchill with respect to nuclear weapons, that this idea was rejected because they already viewed nuclear weapons as a very important and critical and advantageous part of the Anglo-American power in the post-World War II period. I wouldn't argue that thing would have come out differently. I would insist that they may have come out differently if the orientation of the Western statesmen was different...
Roger Rosenblatt's excellent piece on the Anglo-American relationship does, however, perpetuate a myth. America did not "save England's neck." This is particularly true of World War II. For well over two years America slept while Britain held Hitler's forces at bay. By the time the U.S. awakened, the Battle of Britain had been...