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Resistance to American trends is not new in France.

Instead, we've seen surrender by places like Libya.

It is only a matter of time before Americans embrace them, if present trends continue.

I cannot embrace the ersatz rendering of my heritage.

That disapproval appears to have won the day, as returns from a referendum on whether to allow a Wal-Mart Superstore ran solidly in the "no" category from Inglewood.

There are a number of objections to California's initiative and referendum process, to be sure.

Leaving aside the question of whether the voters as a whole are more or less venal than their representatives -- a big leave-aside, by the way -- the history of referenda shows no such popular cravenness.

In fact, spending in referenda and initiatives offers far less of a prediction of success than it does in representative votes.

There was no sign of a much more personal attack he had planned on TUC general secretary Brendan Barber, or of a broadside against supporters of Mr Sinnott, who is running to replace Mr McAvoy after years of being frozen out by him.

The Japanese were not about to surrender even after the first bomb fell, and there was the terrible example of island fights in which defeated Japanese soldiers did not give up until virtually all were killed.

Haney's solution is a "Taxpayers Bill of Rights," which would lock an anti-tax bias into the constitution and shift the cost of government away from the progressive income tax to regressive fees, a trend that's already squeezing average citizens (see the drivers education article on page 1A). Advertisement

Monday, US forces surrounded Mustansiriyah University and warned armed students inside the campus to surrender, Reuters reported.

This persists until the young woman gives up and realizes that indeed they are trapped and have no options .... At some point in this process, the young woman becomes submissive in order to avoid further beatings and torment; her 'spirit is broken.' She surrenders, becomes resigned and accommodates to the circumstances of captivity."

These radio tales were fondly and wittily rendered, nostalgic without degenerating into mawkishness, and had some interesting parallels with the wider and supposedly more mature world.

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