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In trying to explain the astonishing repudiation of Major's government, British commentators have quoted a comment made by Harold Macmillan in the 1960s, when he was asked what was the greatest problem a Prime Minister faced: "Events, dear boy, events".

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Yet instead of grasping this opportunity, local and international leaders soon disengaged and became distracted by the second Intifada, the events of 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A long time ago, a series of events was set in motion by a people who look like me, by wasichu, eager to take the land and the water and the gold in the hills.

Those events led to a domino effect that has yet to end.

I'm talking specifically about the fact that sleep and work are phase-based, or stage-based, events.

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