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To: TobagoJack who wrote (45317)	1/15/2009 2:18:17 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217737

It would have been wise to lower the whole thing gracefully. It stayed up artificially for too long -at least 20 years- thus the coming down with a thud.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (45317)	3/27/2011 1:43:46 PM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217737

"the crowds, numbering thousands, will grow into tens of thousands of crowd groupings politicians will serve the most strident of the largest groups bank holidays takings printings conflicts inevitable now, for we are well beyond the point of no-return" The analogy between Europe in 1848 and the Middle East in 2011 comes down to several key similarities. Both periods were marked at first by newly discovered feelings of defiance, with people young and old who had previously thought themselves powerless against the forces of government realizing their collective might and rising up in protest against their rulers. In both scenarios, that awakening took the form of a series of spontaneous, largely leaderless uprisings propelled by economic discontent and a call for civil liberties: Just as the revolts in the Arab world began this winter in Tunisia and spread from there, 1848 saw something like a chain reaction that began on the island of Sicily before moving to Paris and then igniting in Vienna, Berlin, and elsewhere. And as Anne Applebaum pointed out in Slate recently, those chain reactions were marked by a mess of motivations: Far from being carried by a single opposition movement, both periods of unrest should be seen as multipronged affairs, with different countries erupting for different reasons even as the revolutionaries in each place drew inspiration from one another. boston.com