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Imperialism is back in vogue. With global stability threatened by failed states (or near states) like Afghanistan and Palestine, the literature on international affairs is suddenly ripe with articles whose authors seem to be channeling Rudyard Kipling. "A new imperial moment has arrived," Sebastian Mallaby, a columnist for the Washington Post, wrote in Foreign Affairs this year, "and by virtue of its power, America is bound to play the leading role." In a much-talked-about new book, The Savage Wars of Peace--the very title is a line from Kipling--Max Boot, the Wall Street Journal's editorial-features...
...September, Vintage will publish "The Vintage Book of War Fiction," a paperback original edited by Sebastian Faulks and J?rg Hensgen. The book contains an excerpt from "My Favorite War," a novel by TIME senior editor Chris Farley. Also included are some 40 short stories and novel excerpts from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer and Joseph Heller...
...Imperialism is back in vogue. With global stability threatened by failed states (or near states) like Afghanistan and Palestine, the literature on international affairs is suddenly ripe with articles whose authors seem to be channeling Rudyard Kipling. "A new imperial moment has arrived," Sebastian Mallaby, a columnist for the Washington Post, wrote in Foreign Affairs this year, "and by virtue of its power, America is bound to play the leading role." In a much-talked-about new book, The Savage Wars of Peace - the very title is a line from Kipling - Max Boot, the Wall Street Journal's editorial-features...
...Consider the character it must have taken for the side to rebound from its 5-1 defeat at the hands of England last September in Munich, went the argument. And look at how their team?depleted by the absence of several top players, including the injured Mehmet Scholl and Sebastian "Basti Fantasti" Deisler, who missed the tournament?hung together. The giant German 'keeper and captain Oliver Kahn?who made a series of awesome saves and was named as the goalkeeper of the games?oversaw a defense so mean it conceded just one goal before the final. (His anguish after...
...JUAN SEBASTIAN VERON, 27, ARGENTINA Almost exactly a year ago, Manchester United paid a then-record $43 million for Veron's services. But between his domestic season with Man U, where he failed to stamp his authority on the midfield, and his recent anonymity at World Cup 2002, where he also failed to stamp his authority on the midfield, the Argentine skipper could be forgiven for wondering where it all went wrong. The rumor mill says Man U will sell Veron to finance the purchase of Ferdinand, but it is not known whether the English side will recoup its initial...