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The writer, Philip Bowring, said that the West is "in the grip of self-righteous moralising" over preserving colonial boundaries left by the Portuguese.
For such people, we might say that their very grip on reality depends on their control of language: it is their security blanket, the corners of which they chew with everlasting self-satisfaction and in which they wind themselves for protection against the hostile forces that would shake the foundations of their traditionalism.
That incredible empire dominated the world and I imagine it did not seem possible to people living then that anyone could loosen that empire's grip on humanity.
The WP story about drugs is consistently buttressed by appeal to U.S. law enforcement sources, but it could sorely use some independent expert voices, because it never really comes to grip with the seeming indeterminism of its data.
USAT 's headline announces the international "rebuke on [the] test ban vote" received by the U.S., while the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times --which off-lead the story--note merely that "Clinton Fumes at [the] GOP" ( LAT ) and "Fault[s] GOP Partisanship" ( WP ). The Post and LAT lead with the military's tightening grip on Islamabad, a story off-leaded by the NYT and stuffed by USAT .