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For the last month there have been excruciating negotiations with an agent over the contracts for our famous (read expensive) actors. The Big Controller specifically wanted us to use an actor she'd liked in the Eighties, so we got him and a Lovely Shiny Girl and shipped them over to a Soho studio to voice the new script for us. Mr Eighties arrived looking crumpled, sweaty and anxious. A few cans of Pepsi Max helped initially but things got steadily worse as lines were fluffed, and tempers frayed. It was a quiet journey home.
Having lived in the United States for a few years, I have either struggled
to understand democracy in practice or struggled to keep up with it
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Wen Gao in The Common Reader: As a child, I imagined America as a truly
democratic place where I could speak, disagree, and still listen. I even
used to qu...
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