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...which mankind's selfish quest for wealth has almost certainly destroyed its only habitat. When are we going to grasp how grave our situation is? We should rise up against the real enemies - power-hungry politicians and money-hungry exploiters who rape our earth in the name of development. Johan Van Der Merwe Hilton, South Africa The Dance Of The Veils Re columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's essay "Nothing to Hide" [Oct. 16], on the controversy surrounding former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw's request that Muslim women remove their veils in his office: The political and religious debate between...
...Harvard and Manchester,” announced yesterday, involves transatlantic comparisons of civic engagement given the evolving workplace, increased immigration, and changing attitudes to religion, among other topics. A member of both the British Academy and the U.S. National Academy of Science, Putnam was recently awarded the 2006 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, one of the most prestigious honors in the field. At a ceremony last Satuday in Uppsala, Sweden, Putnam was lauded for his interpretation and popularization of the theory of social capital, which describes the advantages that a person can gain through social networks. In his main...
Verba’s recent accolades include the Johan Skytte Prize in 2002—the highest international honor in political science—and being named as one of the “tweediest” professors by the now-defunct M Magazine...
...Persson said he was "shocked" by this "serious crime." It was, he said, "as if someone steals the key to your house and rummages through your private belongings." Three Liberal Party officials have been formally charged, while three others, including the influential party secretary Johan Jakobsson, have all resigned. Strategists for the Liberal Party, which is led by Lars Leijonborg and part of a four-party alliance, have admitted to using advance insight into SDP initiatives to design their policies, but deny having known that the information was obtained illegally. "I was told the SDP would have a senior citizens...
...film embodies. It's hard for any thinking person to imagine that the movie continues the grand tradition of filmmaking, when all we see is a kung fu gorefest on the edge of lunacy. There should be a new rating for movies like this one: B.D., for brain dead. Johan Adam Wong Selangor, Malaysia