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...take him from a POW camp to Lyons to Paris. Along the way he discovers Bob's recent interest in the long-closed case of a jewel thief who left a strange posthumous riddle. Meanwhile the girl at the station has vanished and the address Bob shouted doesn't exist. Things heat up when Burma gets ambushed on a bridge but the attacker winds up a corpse in the river. The cast quickly expands to include several cops, a reporter, another P.I., the P.I.'s secretary, her lover, Burma's secretary, a shifty doctor and a well-connected shyster. Tardi...
Area studies centers, as they currently exist, are a vital part of American scholarship. They provide extra funding for research into fields that are geopolitically significant, but not traditional foci of academic interest. By enabling interested scholars to pursue research in these areas and cultures, the nation comes to possess an objective, broad-based knowledge of the regions in question. Politicizing these scholars and forcing them to rubberstamp political faits accomplis would make their advice useless. Politicians already have their yes-men; academics serve a different purpose...
...despite the enormity of the challenge, the odds are by no means insurmountable. There is much that can and must be done. Effective prevention models exist, but they must be expanded; potent treatments have been developed, but they must be made universally accessible. We have the know-how, and we have the resources. We are losing the fight against global AIDS for want of political will...
That vision—whether or not you find it appealing—simply bears no relation to the world around us. The special relationship between the two countries seems, as far as the current administration in Washington is concerned, to exist only so that the British can support American foreign policies, thereby lending them the fig leaf of international legitimacy. Blair, for one, appears to be sincere in his conviction that pre-emptive action is the only way to stamp out the threat of international terrorism. Nevertheless, the belief that Britain is acting as nothing more than America?...
...Hispanic, Native American and other students. Students find similar limitations in East Asian studies and its emphasis on Asians in East Asia because it rarely includes the historical and contemporary experiences of people of Asian heritages in the United States. While classes on Vietnam and parts of South Asia exist, few even acknowledge Filipinos, Cambodians, Laotians, Hmong and other Southeast Asian ethnicities—whether in Asia or in America...