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Thatcher first. Her political party may have been called Conservative, but she was in truth one of the most radical leaders Britain has ever had. Thatcher could not abide the cozy and mildly corrupt arrangements that - as she saw it - had condemned post-1945 Britain to a managed decline, and was determined to blow them up. As one of her more waspish M.P.s once said, Thatcher could not see an institution without "hitting it with her handbag." But she never understood that once you removed the need to show deference to any institution - the BBC, the labor unions, the professions...
...those Harvard students who choose to create an organization of their own, the financial complications that inevitably ensue are a rude awakening. Freeze was intended to fill a niche that Sebastian felt was ignored by the other publications at Harvard, but the unglamorous truth is that, unfortunately, absence does not necessarily signify a need—according to Harvard’s purse strings, that...
...evidence of a crime. Instead, Sedwick broke in and soon came out to tell Cave he had found Jennifer, recognizing the freckles on her daughter's feet. At first Cave said she did not understand - "Why her feet?" - that Sedwick was simply trying to cushion her from the horrible truth...
...said, was to ascertain what was the case, but not evaluate human thoughts and actions about what should be the case. Religion had the reverse mandate. Yet the endeavors worked together at times. "Science can be created only by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding," he said. "This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion." The talk got front-page news coverage, and his pithy conclusion became famous. "The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind...
...can’t become a politician,” or, “We used three condoms there’s no way I’ll become political.” The sad truth is that politics over the past century has been spreading into every ethnic, economic, and social level...