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Contemporary Review articles from November 2000
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Contemporary Review archives from November 2000
TOKYO-BEIJING RELATIONS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM.
November 1, 2000... WHILE much attention has been given to the emergence of China as a regional and world power, recent analyses have focused on the implications of China's new role for its relations vis-a-vis another single nation, usually the United States. This...
THE MISGIVINGS OF GLOBALISATION.
November 1, 2000... 'WHERE there is smoke there is fire', says the old dictum. If this metaphor holds for the series of demonstrations against free markets and capitalism which began in June 1999 in London and were later repeated in Seattle, Davos, Bangkok,...
TRANSPORT REVIVAL: RUSSIA CLEANS UP THE CRIME-RIDDEN FREIGHT SERVICES.
November 1, 2000... RUSSIA has launched a gigantic programme to revive its neglected inland freight transport industry. The scheme will lead to significant savings in atmospheric pollution, a consideration that may well encourage the West to release fresh...
AN EXPANDED EU AND AEGEAN SECURITY.
November 1, 2000... THE European Union Summit in Helsinki in December 1999 accepted 13 states as applicants to the Union. While most of them will have serious hurdles to overcome if membership is to be achieved, there was no doubting that the most dramatic...
PREPARING FOR EMERGENCIES.
November 1, 2000... IN September, Britain went through a national spasm. It only lasted a week, but shook society and reminded some people of lessons half-forgotten that will have to be re-learned.
Overseas readers may want an outline of what happened; one...
OSCAR WILDE: A CENTENNIAL WREATH OF MEMORIES.
November 1, 2000... TIME, the laughing policeman, grows daily younger looking as we grow older, and marches unseemly fast. That on this November 30th, Oscar Wilde has been one hundred years dead strikes as incredible.
'Somehow I don't think I shall live to see...
A VISIONARY IN THE PLACE PIGALLE.(Review)
November 1, 2000... IT is a pity that only those already fascinated by Moreau's art are intrepid enough to track down the Musee Gustave Moreau, 14 rue de La Rochefoucauld, in Paris. It is land-locked in the tangle of once-prosperous lanes that twine out of the...
SUDAN: PAST AND PRESENT.
November 1, 2000... IT was not old as Rolls-Royces go, but it had a tentative air about it, as if even the gentle pace at which we were travelling might prove too much. Pale cream in colour when it had been delivered in 1957, just in time for the last British High...
BLOOD RED POPPIES.(Poem)
November 1, 2000... Blood red poppies sway
Over silent fields
Where birds no longer sing.
Once big guns roared
And young men
Faced terror in the mud.
Chaplains search the carnage for God
Finding him gassed and bloody
Crucified...
POLICING THE PORNOGRAPHERS.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The Dirty Squad: The Inside Story of the Obscene Publications Branch. Michael Hames. Little, Brown. [pound]16.99/Can$37.95. 303 pages. ISBN 0-316-85321-6.
In October 1990, the Daily Express described Michael Hames as 'the man with the...
IRELAND -- BRITAIN'S COLONY?(Review)
November 1, 2000... Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture. Stephen Howe, O.U.P. [pound]25.00. 331 pages. ISBN 0-19-820825-1.
This book considers three questions. Was Ireland ever an English or British colony in the accepted meaning...
HARD GREENS IN A SOFT WORLD.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Hard Green. Saving the Environment from Environmentalists: a Conservative Manifesto. Peter Huber. Basic Books, New York. US$25.00. 224 pages. ISBN 465-03112-9.
Just when you began to feel comfortable with your level of green awareness...
DYLAN THOMAS: THE BARD REVISITED.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Dylan the Bard: A Life of Dylan Thomas. Andrew Sinclair. Constable. [pound]18.99. 251 pages. ISBN 0-094-79750-1.
Can there by anybody who does not know the rough outline of Dylan Thomas's life, and particularly his death from an overdose of...
THE SIKHS'S LAST EMPEROR.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The Maharajah's Box. An Imperial Story of Conspiracy, Love and a Guru's Prophecy. Christy Campbell. HarperCollins. [pound]19.99. 474 pages. ISBN 0-00-257008-4.
Duleep Singh -- in the history books his name is frequently spelled 'Dhuleep'...
SCRUTINISNG A NEW ENGLAND PARRICIDE.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Lizzie Borden: Past and Present. Leonard Rebello. Al-Zach Press, Fall River, Massachusetts. 642 pages. US$49.95. ISBN 0-9670739-0-1.
The case of Miss Lisbeth Borden of Fall River, Massachusetts, the fair New England parricide, is to America...