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Snoopy dreamed about fighting him. The English revered his chivalry in combat. His red Fokker Triplane holds an iconic place in the history of aerial "dogfights." But in Germany, Manfred von Richthofen, the World War I flying ace who downed 80 Australian, British, French and Canadian planes before being shot down himself 90 years ago this month, barely rated a mention in the history books. Postwar Germany, after all, was leery of celebrating legendary warriors. But now, the star of the "Red Baron" may be rising again...
...Tommy Smith and John Carlos raised their fists on the medal podium, the resulting image awakened the world to American racial injustice. In Sydney, the naming of Aboriginal track star Cathy Freeman as torch bearer and her meteoric rise in media popularity brought to light the horrors of the Australian government’s genocidal actions against its Aboriginal population. Coupling awareness of Chinese atrocities with Olympic media coverage—which has brought a geopolitical gaze to the sports pages—has been, and can continue to be, an effective strategy for activists working on behalf of Tibet...
Drive a kilometer north of the remote northeastern Australian township of Laura, in the heart of Cape York's Quinkan country, and you'll come to a desolate track. Resist the urge to ignore it - it leads to one of the world's most celebrated rock-art sites. Scrawled across immense boulders and along cave walls are 30,000-year-old images of stick figures and animals such as crocodiles, snakes and tortoises, in shades of ocher. The prehistoric images were discovered in the 1960s by Percy Trezise, an artist and bush pilot. These days his son Steve, a painter...
...band of pirates takes a more radical approach. Over the last few months Watson pursued Japanese whalers across the South Pacific in the Steve Irwin, a boat named after the Australian crocodile hunter, who had planned to join a Sea Shepherd voyage before his death. At the height of the chase, Sea Shepherd activists boarded a Japanese whaling vessel, sparking an international crisis that only ended when Australian diplomats negotiated the activists’ release. In the aftermath Australia’s generally anti-whaling government sternly warned Sea Shepherd to not repeat the stunt, and moderate conservation groups distanced...
...Watson, the campaign was a success. He dismisses the Australian government’s complaint—“We expect criticisms from government, that’s all they ever do.” And he similarly discounts other groups’ concerns, “We’re the ladies of the night conservation organization—people agree with us, they just don’t want to seen with us.” More important to him is the claim that his protest cost the Japanese whaling program $70 million, and caused...