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Once upon a time, 4 July in London was the occasion for a grand party at the American ambassador’s vast residence in Regent’s Park.
The diplomatic corps, leading MPs, titans of industry, and we sparrows of the press would feast on hamburgers, hot dogs and crumbs of gossip on the vast back lawn.
But this is the Age of Austerity. The party is over. This year, the big 4 July event in London will be held in Grosvenor Square just across from the American embassy and it is a private affair not hosted by the US government. A statue of Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States, will be unveiled.
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As families around the United States celebrate the nation’s Independence Day, many will be counting the days to the return of their loved ones from military service in Afghanistan.
Some 33,000 troops are expected to head home by September 2012.
For those who leave the military world, there will be challenges ahead as they adjust to civilian life. The least fortunate may end up becoming homeless and many will battle the mental scars of war.
Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are finding themselves living on the streets faster than those who served in previous conflicts, including Vietnam.
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Down steep steps underground and into the dark, the air is thick, smoky and hot in this bunker in soon-to-be independent South Sudan.
A pair of handcuffs dangle from a metal girder on the blacked ceiling: A grim reminder of the torture that once went on here.
For South Sudan, already struggling to contain violence, this place offers the starkest of warnings that the future must not be like the past.
“Is this nation going to be an inclusive nation?” asked Jok Madut Jok, a southern academic and history professor at Loyola Marymount University in California, speaking in a recent public lecture.
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However much readers and critics psychoanalyze William Hazlitt’s persona in Liber Amoris (1823), it is abundantly clear that “H” simply wants what he cannot have–sex with “S.” In the first part of Liber Amoris, William Hazlitt constructs–supposedly re-constructs–conversations he had with Sarah Walker, the daughter of the landlord of a boarding house where he lived from 1820 until 1822, when he moved to Scotland to facilitate his divorce from his first wife. He persists in his attempts to seduce her but is met with chaste resistance, despite his assertions that she sits in his lap, kisses him, and lets him “take other liberties” with her (302). The ambiguity of the “other liberties” he takes with the young woman makes us wonder if he is closer to his goal–literally and figuratively–than literary propriety permits him to reveal; but, more importantly, the linguistic ambiguity raises questions about the veracity of Hazlitt’s portrayal of her in his short “book of love,” the literal translation of Liber Amoris. Considering the liberties he claims she has allowed him to take, no elaborate linguistic &construction is necessary to reverse the title to read Amor Liberis–or “free love”–which is essentially what “H” wants from her in the first part of the book. Such linguistic confusion is apparent throughout as language opens up an interconnectedness of meanings, verbal similarities, and associations in Hazlitt’s text, leaving him linguistically caught on the semantic difference between “her lover” (himself) and his “love of her” (his desire; my emphasis): “The gates of Paradise were once open to me too, and I blushed to enter but with the golden keys of love! I would die; but her lover–my love of her–ought not to die. When I am dead, who will love her as I have done?” (325). These similar sounds further point to the wordplay in the rifle. The text calls into question, therefore, whether we can accept this as actual experience or as Hazlitt’s highly literary and textual creation.
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My mother taught me She made my princess dresses and costumes when I was little, and when I grew up I wanted more and more dresses, so one day she said: “I’ll teach you how to sew, so I won’t have to anymore.” And step-by-step she taught me.
The thing with sewing is that it’s not so much about talent but about endless practice and stubborness. At first everything will go wrong and your clothes won’t turn out pretty. If I look at my first attempts at dresses, I shudder… But I didn’t give up and continued, and I’m still getting better. I’m so proud I can put in a zipper correctly now! And I only recently learned how to do button-holes, which was a real epiphany
