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...concept on which, one had naively supposed, the sun had set when the last British Governor of Hong Kong sailed out of the city's harbor in 1997, imperialism is having one heck of a comeback. At the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City last week, a standing-room-only crowd gathered to hear Niall Ferguson. The Scottish historian is enjoying rock-star status with his new book, Empire, which argues that British colonial rule was a jolly good thing and that a new American empire would do well to learn its lessons. In the sacred texts...
...wouldn't. For starters, the concept of "liberal imperialism" is history written by the victors. For those on its receiving end, imperialism - whatever its economic benefits may have been - meant one thing: rule by someone else. It is beyond the bounds of human generosity for such a state to continue for long; occupation breeds resentment no matter how well-intentioned. In the mid-1990s I met many people in Hong Kong who appreciated the benefits British rule had brought; it was hard to find anyone who wanted such rule to continue indefinitely...
...without a fight. According to investigators, battle-hardened paramilitaries and criminals known for their silence under duress - one of the charged was known simply as the Mute - began to talk. The inducement: a mistaken impression of what was involved in becoming a protected witness. "This was a new concept for them," says Milic. They thought that they would be absolved of responsiblity for any crimes they had committed. "It became a competition," Milic says, to see who could reveal more. Many of the charges - including 28 murders, 23 attempted murders and 15 kidnappings - stemmed from testimony of just five...
Citizen bloggers covering the candidates for U.S. president. Everyone who hears the concept says Hmm, that might work. More than anything, I want the U.S. presidential election of 2004 to be a real election, to mean something. I wonder if many other citizens feel the same...
Reff: What we do have are the man hours. Jen, you talked about communication, and figuring out a time schedule that is in some way universal. Space is not only a physical concept; especially at Harvard, space is a people construct in terms of what time and what energy are people devoting and how are they doing it and trying to coordinate it, so that it’s collaborative. It’s working to have some sort of undergraduate arts community...