One of the first lessons of economics is that bygones are bygones.
These newly armed, formerly downtrodden creatures have learned one of the first lessons of revolution: who owns the language has the power.
The board's decision was the latest development in what has become a rocky start to the school year here, where one of the first lessons of the semester has become how to live inside a scandal.
Europe, however, went on paying tribute, leading one American diplomat to comment, "It must be mortifying to some of the neighboring European powers to see how the Barbary States have been taught their first lessons of humiliation from the Western world".
She had learned the first lessons of royal behaviour, ones which it is easy to imagine she hoped her ill-fated granddaughter-in-law, Diana, would also learn: never express emotion or opinions in public, never treat the press as people rather than instruments of publicity, never let the mask slip.
"It was the first lessons of development from my father". The management and licensing company has roughly two dozen properties under its umbrella.
