Tag Archives: Gordon Brown

Stockholm Syndrome in Copenhagen

12/17/2009 – 8:32 am

It’s cold in Vermont. Our long autumn has given way to the winter weather that always beats the calendar winter by a few weeks here. Frank Capra snowflakes fall past my window as I type.
On Saturday evening, in the company of a 14-year-old girl, I walked to a park in the south end [...]

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Does Not a Tibetan Bleed?

12/4/2008 – 12:26 pm

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has accomplished a difficult task since taking office 18 months ago: he’s made me miss Tony Blair.
Mr. Blair was George W. Bush’s lapdog on foreign policy and when he left office, I thought anyone had to be better. Mr. Brown had a promising start, putting some distance between the [...]

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