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We now understand that Europe, the European Union, is doubtless a solution, but not any old Europe and any old union: the solution is a Europe on terms that now seem seriously compromised, if not cast off for good.
When Lear, having divided his kingdom, turns on the recalcitrant Goneril, Pryce savagely kisses her and threatens to "resume the shape which thou dost think I have cast off for ever".
Funky hotel, Egadi islands, Sicily As Italy's A-list cast off for the islands each August, even sleepy Favignana, an hour's boat ride from Trapani, gets its fair share of celebs.
And, while they've performed with Madonna in New York and attended festivals in Vegas and freedom forums in Oslo, and will speak tomorrow at a Guardian Live event in London, they haven't just gaily stepped aboard the celebrity circuit and cast off for sunnier shores.
Winder ordered his men back to their boats and cast off for Buffalo but his command came under a severe fire as they rowed away, costing him 28 casualties.
Since only 30 prisoners had surrendered along with King and since Winder's detachment did not come under fire until they had re-embarked and cast off for Buffalo, it would appear that 6 of the dead left on the battlefield and 7 of the prisoners belonged to Boerstler's command.
In our super-size-me digital world they have engineered a growing plethora of options – a curse that we seem incapable of casting off for fear of not being "connected".
Mining cellphones for gold is, in fact, just one way the Japanese are finding new uses for what they cast off.
We are free of this burden -- not because we cast it off (for God knows many of us have long tried to be reasonable, respectful and respectable) but because it has been ripped from us by those in power and those weak members of our communities who want to share in that power than to do the hard, self-profaning work or real, lasting justice.
