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...their languages. More organizations like midas (the European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages) must be founded to help the minor languages - and thereby cultures - prosper in a globalized Europe and world. Vinh Prag Arhus, Denmark Thanks for this fascinating article. As a London-based Cornishman, I'm surprised that you omitted the Celtic links between Cornwall and Brittany. Nor did you include the Catalans, whose domain stretches from around Béziers in France to Barcelona in Spain. The more that globalized trade and political union try to make us homogeneous, the more need there...
...group called Corporate Capers has already sold 700 places next to windows in the office buildings along the wedding procession route. For $335, a rubbernecker gets use of binoculars, a TV set for watching the ceremony and a hamper laden with lobster, steak, wedding cake and champagne. Cornishman Simon Adkins has found a more personal way to mark the royal union. Tattooed on his back, in everlasting tribute, are the faces of Charles and Diana framed in a heart, with room left over for their children. Says Adkins: "I can carry my devotion to the royal family with...
...will make or break her government, Thatcher will rely heavily on very trusted aides who share Joseph's fiscal views. Sir Geoffrey Howe, 52, a former left-wing Tory long since converted to tight money and tax cuts, became Chancellor of the Exchequer. John Nott, 47, a tough Cornishman once fired by Heath as too inflexible, became Secretary for Trade and Prices. John Biffen, 48, a deceptively shy but zealous right-wing purist and nationalistic opponent of the Common Market, was named Chief Secretary of the Treasury, in effect, director of the budget. Thatcher's one concession...
...penned his own droll self-portrait as Biron and modeled Biron's dark lady, Rosaline, on Emilia Lanier. Further clues are on the way. This month, when Rowse visits the U.S., he will bring with him a sheaf of newly discovered poems by Emilia. The 74-year-old Cornishman is rooted to his native soil, but this, after all, is a special occasion. "Americans," vows Rowse, "are really more open-minded than the British...
...fact, are) completely set down in a few columns of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. But for decades scholars have felt compelled to spin these few threads into an overblown fabric of speculation which the academic world charitably describes as literary biography. The latest offender is a brilliant and bumptious Cornishman named A. L. Rowse...