2006-04-01から1ヶ月間の記事一覧

France's legendary terror cop

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/01/03/bruguiere/index.html When Bruguiティre discovered in late January 1992 that officials in the government of Francois Mitterrand had secretly given the green light for a notorious terrorist le…

Clear and Present Dangers

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/books/review/19brink.html?ei=5070&en=ba8ce3a98534d8d6&ex=1144555200&pagewanted=print 'American Theocracy,' by Kevin Phillipsの書評。 Four decades ago, Kevin Phillips, a young political strategist for the R…

To criticise capitalism don't try to defend the dregs of Soviet socialism

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1747664,00.html ティモシー・ガートン・アッシュ Some writers have suggested that the Ukrainian and Belarussian election results spell a turning of the tide against nefarious CIA-supported "colour r…

Sex scandal fuels Uganda-Rwanda tensions

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/04/03/uganda.rwanda.reut/index.html The story broke ahead of Tuesday's treason trial of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye, which was expected to strain ties even more.Besigye, who lost elections i…

Why foreign aid doesn't work

http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/04/05/easterly/ "The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good"出版に際して、イースタリーへのインタビュー。 Last year, celebrity economist and Un…

Rwanda: Kagame Lambasts Hotel Rwanda Movie Hero

http://allafrica.com/stories/200604030930.html Kagame said that according to witnesses, Rusesabagina even collected money from the people he sheltered to allow them stay at the hotel.別に新発見の事実ではないだろう。 "They (refugees) did no…

A parallel tradition

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1743898,00.html TS Eliot argued in his famous essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent", "you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead." Eliot did not find it preposterous "th…

The moviegoers

http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/03/28/lopate/ "American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now",Ed. by phillip Lopateの書評。 "American Movie Critics" is doomed to be a frustrating book if only because it offers us j…