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...Philip Fisher’s English 178x “Modern American Novel” on for size; it’s welcoming to students from all backgrounds, and has a reading list that spans the century, from House of Mirth to Lolita to White Noise. Anything Matthew Kaiser is teaching is always worth a semester (or five) as well; this time it’s English 154 “19th Century English Poetry” and English 90yx “Gay and Lesbian Fiction...
...matter was urgent because Roosevelt and his circle were not the only people who had discovered the influence of sea power on world affairs. Mahan's lessons from history had had an almost universal resonance. Under Kaiser Wilhelm II and Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, Germany was building a battle fleet as large as the U.S. one and equally fast. France and Russia, now in alliance, were also pouring resources into new construction, as were Italy and Austria-Hungary in the Mediterranean. The most amazing growth, from virtually nowhere, was that of the Japanese navy in the Far East...
...Tsushima in May 1905. But the President did not want complete Japanese domination of the Far East either, and so he actively lobbied both sides to turn to the peace table. Since Britain was diplomatically allied to Japan, and France to Russia, neither was an acceptable arbitrator. And the Kaiser's Germany was trusted by no one. By default the U.S. became the natural mediator. Roosevelt persuaded the two nations to send representatives to the U.S. for negotiations to be conducted in Portsmouth, N.H., where he took the deepest interest in cajoling, often bullying, the two belligerents into ending...
...surging - and financially secure - live pop-music scene in 2006. What are the clues? First, the sign above the door says Brixton Carling Academy, incorporating the name of the biggest-selling beer in Britain and main sponsors of the 77-year-old south London venue. As the Kaiser Chiefs play their closing-time anthem I Predict a Riot, it's not just any beer flying through the air, it's Carling - the only [an error occurred while processing this directive]beer for sale in any of the 16 music venues across Britain that the Molson Coors?owned brand has exclusive...
...lucrative for the artists, whether the labels get a piece of it or not. "We used to give artists tour support, then recoup it from their record sales," says David Munns, vice chairman of EMI Music. "It was all done in the name of promotion." Things are changing. The Kaiser Chiefs' manager, James Sandom, for example, predicts the band will make at least one-third of its revenue in the year ahead from live shows. "Increasingly, as you are selling less records for less money with more advertising, the acts don't see a lot from record sales," he says...