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… -- retired Admiral Michael McConnell, vice chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton On June 9, 2013, the Guardian, the British newspaper known for the quality and gravity of its reporting posted Snowden’s 12-minute video on its website. In it, Snowden identified himself as an i...

…Jun 2016, 01:13 - CEST EarthBabyY RT @Mark_Beech: A propos @garbage and #Brexit 23 Jun 2016, Magoa posts tonight, heavy British rain might affect turnout? 01:13 - CEST https://t.co/w4TFDekFXL vijayhre86 The theme today is all about disruptions.. Nothing 23 Jun 2016, MariaEsquir o...

… “object” of sorts, a tool whose power depends on how and where it is used. Just as widespread use of the dollar or the British Pound or gold – for trade, for finance or for stashing under mattresses – marks a network of economic exchange, so English is a mesh for information sha...

…, not less, serious. The “Arab Spring” has morphed into an Islamic winter. National frontiers that were put in place by British and French diplomats after the fall of the Ottoman Empire are vanishing. Centuries-old conflicts between tribes and rival religious communities have rei...

… risks of significant personal injury are therefore high, even if the potential benefit is death to an opponent. As the British anthropologist Richard Wrangham has suggested, animals can surmount these costs by attacking and killing only when there is a significant imbalance of p...

…iR4%7C1_1dXO6dY8JDP%7C1_jvMiyyezdfj%7C1_1nuMS3vMEnQ%7C1_8KxOQczUk1m&ty=1&ty_data=34fThpaBiR4&uid=aCOK0CLsX1Z&v=0> When British Airways Flight 38 was about to crash short of the runway at Heathrow Airport, why did the pilot or first officer yell out "speed bird, speed bird" just...

Speedbird is the callsign of British Airways, referring to the stylized bird logo. Captain Peter Burkill of British Airways 38 explains his radio call, “Speedbird, Speedbird... Read More » What do Brits think of France? Se Nate White, Drinks coffee. Writes copy. I'll be hones...

… feel like Jude Law’s babysitter. TODD: [Mumbling between kisses] Who’s Jude Law? NANNY: [Unbuttoning his shirt] He’s a British actor who made love with his girlfriend Sienna Miller’s babysitter on the billiards table. TODD: [Unbuttoning her blouse] I don’t have a billiards table...

as happened not so long ago to British Airways at Heathrow.

…men in Europe. Her father, Robert Maxwell, was a Czech refugee who had fought in the French Foreign Legion and with the British in World War II and had gone on to become a member of Parliament. By the 1960s, he'd become a media baron. Born into a Hasidic family—his birth name was...

…he United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Control Number: 2014939580 ISBN 978–0–19–921610–9 Printed and bound by CPI Gr...

…thing than Churchill, who was advised to move out of London and instead stayed there to absorb the Blitz along with the British people. He was sort of a role model for heroism and spoke—again in the first person plural—about, "We will stand tall, we will resist this tyranny." It...

…ychologists, and scientists, each of whom asked to lecture on his own work in terms of its relationship to the ideas of British mathematician G. Spencer Brown presented in his book, Laws of Form. I was a bit puzzled when I received an invitation—a very late invitation indeed— whi...

…rcefully for American military intervention, echoing the belief of commentators and political figures that American and British forces would be welcomed as liberators. In the spring of 2004, some of his opinion pieces suggested that he had tempered his earlier optimism about the...

… Another push for the Af-Pak peace train is coming from Britain, which also wants a prompt start for negotiations. The British are working several possible contacts with the Taliban and are circulating a plan that they are calling, in classic Anglo-speak, a “non-paper.” The awk...