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...Flanders campaign in 1914. Frustrated by the stalemate in Belgium and France that followed, he initiated the Allies' only major effort to outflank the Germans on the Western Front by sending the navy, and later a large force of the army, to the Mediterranean. At Gallipoli in 1915, this Anglo-French force struggled to break the defenses that blocked access to the Black Sea. It was a heroic failure that forced Churchill's resignation and led to his political eclipse...
Haven?t we heard this somewhere before? ?It cannot sink,? promised Walter Navratil, president of White Star Line Ltd., of his plans to build a full-scale, $500 million oil-fueled replica of the Titanic. The company, itself a U.S.-Swiss replica of the original Anglo-American White Star line, plans to have the steamer ready for the 90th anniversary of the original Titanic voyage, in April 2002. And at between $10,000 and $100,000 a ticket, the ship is once again likely to be stuffed with the cream of transatlantic aristocracy...
...distinct worldview. The account places the Yanomamo squarely into an evolutionary view of human societies with "Stone Age tribes" at one end and Euro-American high culture at the other. This is the same worldview that contrasts the confused, pathologically bilingual, overly emotional Latino to the modern, rational Anglo. It is the same worldview that sends pseudo-scientists racing around measuring Negro skulls. Never mind that we are all living at the same point in time and that all human beings and human cultures are equally deserving of respect...
Stephanie Clifford's article on the debates around the acquisition of antiquities by the Harvard Art Museums (University, Feb. 19) was well written, fair and balanced. I write to correct just two misunderstandings. First, the Art Museums did not acquire an Anglo-Roman head. Rather, we borrowed one from a private collector who has promised to give the head to the British Museum at or before his death. For this reason, we received the approval of the British Museum before exhibiting the work. The British Museum did not object to our exhibit. Second, we did not exhibit works from dealers...
...British Museum has also questioned HUAM's acquisition of an Anglo-Roman head displayed in the same exhibit because of the piece's questionable origins. However, the British Museum has not taken formal action in the matter...