I'm struck by the number of "liberals" professing highly restrictive values, and the number of "conservatives" professing highly permissive ones.
Reprints Related items South Africa: Scorpions stungMay 8th 2008 South Africa: Zuma comes out on topDec 19th 2007The ANC itself, though professing its belief in democratic institutions, has failed to denounce Mr Malema's words publicly, beyond a statement from Kgalema Motlanthe, the party's deputy president, that they were "irresponsible".
The first push to restrict immigration in the 20th century got started after anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinated President William McKinley; he wasn't even an immigrant himself, his parents were, but it was enough to prompt Teddy Roosevelt to ask congress to bar "the coming to this country of anarchists or persons professing principles hostile to all government".
His jowls creased with sorrow as one of his rivals appeared, professing his loyalty.
However, Belgian politicians, their hackles raised by Renault's recent decision to close a local car factory, are professing outrage at the mere idea of Lyonnaise running Tractabel.The hope in the stockmarket, where the long-suffering shareholders of Suez and Lyonnaise have finally seen their companies' performance perk up, is that the merger will be a prelude to restructuring.
In the past few months, a number of guerrilla groups, such as the Anbar Revolutionaries based in Ramadi, a Sunni provincial capital to the west of Baghdad, have become more outspoken against extreme radical groups professing loyalty to al-Qaeda and may be willing to negotiate local ceasefires.
Mr McGuinty won over many of these voters by professing a deep concern about the state of urban services.
AT CHINA's 60th anniversary bash last month, Zhang Yuanyuan, a China-born, permanent resident of Singapore, was caught on camera professing her love for her native country.
But now Daqing and the rest of the region is wondering how, apart from professing his sympathies and indulging in public gestures, Mr Wen will help them.So far, the government's plans are vague.
Even BJP partisans were professing to expect 60.
(This judge later served on South Carolina's Supreme Court, and landed in some hot water by professing to find racist jokes inoffensive and funny).
