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Democracy in America
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Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (University of Chicago) $22 Page count: 722
Who needs a summer fling when you can have two sordid volumes-93 chapters total-packed with descriptions of the one-night stands of the most virile French aristocrat to ever mount an American milkmaid? The author of Memoir on Pauperism and The Old Regime and the Revolution is at his most potent in this 1835 bodice-ripper about his jaunt across the Nubile States of America. The pleasures of breezin...
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First Place; What's-Her-Name, The Beautiful; This year's non-fiction category was "America."
Santa Fe Reporter
; America is a dream. America is a perilous dream dreamed by idealistic British colonial intellectuals whacked out on tea. America is an eyelash in the eye of history. And America is a name-tag, a handle, a title. Our formal proper given name is, The United States of America, as if we were trying to
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Democracy in America
The Stranger
; Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (University of Chicago) $22 Page count: 722 Who needs a summer fling when you can have two sordid volumes-93 chapters total-packed with descriptions of the one-night stands of the most virile French aristocrat to ever mount an American milkmaid? The
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Avalon. (America Survey)
The Economist (US)
; AMERICA is sauntering through her resources, and through the mazes of her politics with an easy nonchalance; but presently there will come a time when she will be surprised to find herself grown old - a country, crowded, strained, perplexed - when she will be obliged to pull herself together,
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The world America created. (America, Asia and Europe)
The Economist (US)
; Those who see America swivelling from towards Asia are wrong. But they are right in detecting something shaky in America's relations with its transatlantic and transpacific friends. The United States has not discovered quite how to capitalise on the general success, or correct the specific
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Half a billion Americans? - Demography and the West; How demographic trends are pulling Europe and America apart.
The Economist (US)
; ... compared with Europe's, it also makes it look increasingly different. Compare the different shapes of chart 4 (on next page), which maps the age distribution of America's whites, on the left, and other groups, on the right. Whites form a pear shape: they are preponderant ...
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SHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK, AMERICA IS IN PORT.(LOCAL)
The Virginian Pilot
; The America's Cup may be in far-off New Zealand this year, even without an American challenger, but that doesn't stop heads from turning at Waterside Marina. Resting against an inside slip near the Portsmouth Ferry dock, looking every bit an apparition, is the spitting image of the incredibly fast
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America's Dream
Americas
; America's Dream, by Esmeralda Santiago. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Everything is going wrong for America Gonzalez, the protagonist of Esmeralda Santiago's highly predictable new novel. A hotel maid on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, America is on her knees scrubbing behind a toilet when she
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Why America must stay - Why America must stay; America and Iraq.
The Economist (US)
; America should keep its troops in Iraq until Iraqis ask them to go WARS waged abroad are often lost at home; and that may be starting to happen with Iraq. Calls for American troops to withdraw are familiar in the Arab world and Europe, but in the United States itself such talk has remained on the
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The unhappy alliance: America and Japan do wonders for each other. But Americans are becoming more anti-Japanese. (America and Japan)
The Economist (US)
; ... journalists and politicians, though, japan is now Public Enemy Number 1. An opinion poll last month by the New York Times and CBS News found that 67% of Americans still have generally friendly feelings towards japan. But that figure had been 74% last June (and ...
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Mirror, mirror on the wall - Europe v America.(Assessing Europe's economy)
The Economist (US)
; America is widely admired as the beauty queen of the economic world. But the euro area's figures are more shapely than its reputation suggests AS AMERICA'S economy has bounced back, the economies of the euro area still seem to be crawling along. This perception has reinforced pervasive gloom about
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