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...were international organizations like the U.N., there were religions-communities of faith with a global reach, whose adherents tramped from one end of the earth to the other, saving souls. To be sure, in their zeal to convert, missionaries often mixed faith with cruelty, as Spain's blood-drenched conquest of Mexico in the name of God abundantly proved. But as Nayan Chanda of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization argued in his recent book Bound Together, the great religions were also intimately associated with the growth of trade and human contact. "For all the horror it visited...
...United States? I live in the west - and the 'humanitarian' stealing of tax payers dollars here to fund the incompetence of Latinos to fund their own health care or learn English is appalling," wrote a blogger who signed as Diana Jorgensen. However, Mexican intellectuals view the re-conquest as cultural rather than military, talking with satisfaction over the fact people in California are speaking Spanish and eating enchiladas. No one in the mainstream of Mexican politics seriously contemplates an offensive northward. Mexico City car mechanic Santiago Gomez finds the ad funny, but would prefer California to be in U.S. rather...
...Revolutionary War, at a time when Massachusetts was at the center of a bloody political struggle against monarchism. The Latin motto is lifted from the English rebel Algernon Sydney, a vehement opponent of the Restoration who was executed for conspiring to kill Charles II. It refers not to a conquest of native peoples but to an ethos of colonial liberation that had become the archetypal sentiment of Massachusetts patriots. The image of the sword refers to the first half of Sydney’s injunction: “manus haec, inimica Tyrannis,” or, “this...
...Rachel McAdams, “Mean Girls”), a widow with a pin-up girl’s physique and a Goethe-like conception of love. In an act of imprudence, Harry introduces Kay to Richard, who is single and handsome. Richard decides that Kay is his next conquest. The plot twists, turns, and thickens with every scene. Sensitive Harry believes that if he were to leave Pat, she would suffer immensely. “I can’t stand to see anyone suffer,” he says. So he decides to kill her. Unfortunately, Cooper seems...
...sexual excitement depends on obstacles and barriers. As barriers fall, so does pleasure. Caplan says that he knows many men who carry out sexual seduction on a purely mental level: once they have psychologically won a woman, excitement fades, and they dread having to go to bed with their conquest...