- Gates: Histroy will judge legacy of Iraq
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- Moscow: Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's legacy
Critics of former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov's claim his rebuilding programme ruined the city's allure
元モスクワ市長ユーリルシコフの主張の評論家は彼の再構築プログラムは、街の魅力を台無しにした
- Holy faces from the past | Face to faith
Early frescoes in a Norfolk village remind us of our medieval churches' more lively pastSeveral years ago, in a remote corner of rural Norfolk, a discovery was that is as romantic and resonant as anything in the JL Carr novel A Month in the Country. During repairs to the crumbling church of St Mary's at Houghton-on-the-Hill, a sequence of astonishing frescoes dating from shortly after the Norman conquest came to light.The church is the last survivor of a lost medieval village, which like so many other communities in the mid-14th century succumbed to the ravages of plague and then to the fatal slide of declining populations. Yet in St Mary's we can see, as in a palimpsest, the legacy of a faith that was vital and inspiring. Confronted by the solemn saints, and the faces of damned and elect that coolly return our gaze after countless years, we are able to enter imaginatively into a system of belief that was this society's heartbeat.It is no accident that one of the most significant of the frescoes uncovered in this ancient building depicts a wheel of fortune, a popular motif in the middle ages used to illustrate the inexorable ups and downs of day-to-day existence. Religion both reflected and made sense of the capriciousness of fate, while also offering the prospect of eventual relief from struggle.Medieval congregations were for the most part unable to read. Wall paintings illustrating the Last Judgment, and the terrified faces of those prodded by demons towards hell, would have driven home to them, in an intensely immediate way, the dreadful ramifications of sin, just as the gathering of the elect underlined their path towards salvation. Correspondingly, colourful depictions of the lush flora of the Garden of Eden, or of Noah's ark tossed upon the stormy water ノーフォークの村の初期段階でのフレスコ画は、農村部ノーフォークの一角に、我々の中世の教会。。u0026#39;より活発なpastSeveral年前のを思い出させてくれる、発見は、ロマンチックな共振jlをカーの小説の国で月に何かのようになりますということでした
- Bernanke defends QE2 against inflation fears
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke invoked the inflation-fighting legacy of the late Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman and, for the third time in as many days, defended the Fed's expansion of record stimulus.
連邦準備制度理事会のベンバーナンキ議長は、多くの日として3度目の、故ノーベル賞受賞者の経済学者ミルトンフリードマンのインフレと戦うレガシーを呼び出したレコード刺激のFRBの拡大を守った
- Science Weekly podcast: Protecting the oceans; a space suit for dogs; and Tutankhamun goes online
Jay Nelson, director of Global Ocean Legacy at the Pew Environment Group, joins us to consider how we can protect the world's oceans and whether islanders are willing to be subjected to tough restrictions. We also discuss the Chagos Archipelago, the UK's most important area of marine biodiversity.It's one small step for a mongrel ... We discover how stray dogs helped Yuri Gagarin make history. Space communications manager Kevin Yates takes us on a tour of the new Space Race exhibition at the National Space Centre in Leicester, which features a canine high-altitude suit designed by the Russians at the height of their battle with the Americans to control space. View our exclusive behind-the-scenes video of the exhibit as the suit is unpacked from its protective box and put on display. As the dust settles on the Climategate emails saga, the Guardian assembled an impressive line-up of experts to debate what the affair did - and did not - reveal about research into global warming. Listen to a small section of the 100-minute recording, or hear the debate in its entirety here. Eighty-eight years after Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered by Howard Carter, only a fraction of the 5,000 objects unearthed have been properly studied and published. Hopefully that's about to change thanks to the internet and 15 years of hard work as the excavation notes are published online. Jo Marchant went to the Griffith Institute in Oxford where the archive is now held. Follow the podcast on our Science Weekly Twitter feed and receive updates on all breaking science news stories from Guardian Science. Email scienceweeklypodcast@gmail.com. Join our Facebook group. Listen back through our archive.Subscribe free via iTunes to ensure every episode gets delivered. (Here is the non-iTunes URL feed).Alok ジェイネルソン氏は、ピュー環境グループのグローバルオーシャンLegacyのディレクター、私たちはどのようにかどうかを島民は喜んでいる世界の海を守ることができます厳しい制限を受けることを検討する結合します
- 'No such thing as an irresponsible strike'
Len McCluskey, the newly-elected general secretary of Unite on the legacy of Lord Tebbit's employment law changes of the 1980s and the loss of jobs in the coalition cuts. レンマクラスキー、1980年代の主テビットの雇用の法律の変更と連立カットでの仕事の損失の遺産のユニテの新任事務総長
- Health problems the legacy of Russian wildfires
MOSCOW - Russian health experts have warned that unprecedented heat and suffocating smog from wildfires will lead to more suicides, higher rates of alcohol abuse and other problems, and they accused the government of failing to address... モスクワ - ロシアの健康専門家は、前例のない暑さと山火事からスモッグを押しつぶすもっと自殺、アルコール乱用などの問題の割合が高いにつながると警告しており、彼らが対処するために失敗した政府を非難...
- Moscow wildfires fanned by Soviet legacy of neglect
Marie-Hélène Mandrillon, of the Graduate School of Social Sciences in Paris, talks to Grégoire Allix Some have cited the reform of forest law, initiated by Vladimir Putin in 2007, as a possible explanation for the scale of the forest fires in Russia. Is this justified? Indeed, but the changes to forest law were just the last step in the dismantling of measures to protect Russia's forests. The Soviet Union had a large body of highly skilled, specialist foresters. With the collapse of the regime and the economic crisis that followed, they were allowed to sell the timber they felled. This work very soon took precedence over all their other duties.How did the new forest law make things worse? The function of forest protection completely disappeared, with no human or technical resources allocated to it whatsoever. It was no longer a federal mission and central management was dropped.Greenpeace Russia has condemned the extent to which business interests close to the regime control the forests. Is this fair? Large industrial firms have invested in land, particularly woodland. This has sometimes had a positive effect, preventing the rural exodus and the spread of deserts in agricultural areas. But it has not brought well-organised husbandry or responsible management to the forests. Worse still, financiers and even political leaders have cleared patches of woodland and developed isolated housing estates without planning permission.Draining of marshland has created many peat bogs which are now fuelling the fires. How did this happen?This practice started under the Soviet regime. The budget of the ministry of water was linked to the area of marshland it drained, in pursuit of an approach to sanitation inherited from the 19th century. But the peat was not systematically exploited a マリー。。u003dエレーヌMandrillonは、大学院社会科学のパリで、グレゴワールAllixに交渉が一部では、プーチン大統領が2007年に、ロシアの森林火災の規模の可能な説明として開。森林法の改革を引用している
- The toxic legacy of BP's oil spill
The BP oil well is to be plugged permanently with cement this weekend. Five months on from the spill these figures reveal the extent of the devastation. 11 Platform workers were killed when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig... BPのオイルはよくされる永久セメントで、今週末接続することです
- Chilcot inquiry: The bare facts on Iraq are there for all to see, Mr Blair
The former prime minister's responses to key questions on Iraq are, to put it charitably, elusive and less than completeThe questions sent by the Chilcot Inquiry to Tony Blair make crystal clear the key issues on which the report will focus.In the run up to the war these include: the timing, nature and extent of commitments given to President Bush; the preparation and presentation of intelligence; the circumstances of the decision to return to the United Nations; the role of the attorney general and the effect of his legal advice at various stages; the role of the cabinet; and the presentation of information to parliament and the public.Mr Blair's responses to those questions are, to put it charitably, elusive and less than complete. But once the fluff is stripped away, today's defensive testimony, the written answers and the totality of the evidence before the tribunal points to a simple story: the prime minister took an early decision to support President Bush in the quest to remove Saddam, assured him repeatedly of his unequivocal statement of support, ignored the law, and deprived the cabinet and parliament of key information.In short, Mr Blair managed to skilfully lead the entire machinery of government — attorney general, cabinet, parliament — into a place from which British involvement in the war became inevitable.Mr Blair has paid a big price for delivering his commitment to President Bush: his legacy is an unlawful and disastrous conflict that continues to cause misery and claim lives, shredding public trust in government, diminishing Britain's role in the world, and undermining the rule of law. To the Chilcot inquiry falls the task of picking up the pieces.Philippe Sands QC is professor of law, University College London, and a barrister at Matrix ChambersIraqM ているイラクのキーの質問に元首相の反応はとらえどころのない、トニーブレアにチルコットお問い合わせから送信されたcompleteThe質問に満たない場合には、寛大な言い方をするとする明確な結晶は、レポートが、実行をfocus.Inする重要な問題戦争は、これらの含まれます：タイミング、性質及び程度、ブッシュ大統領に与えられた約束;準備とプレゼンテーションの知性の、国連に戻るには、意思決定の状況、検事総長の役割と彼の法的助言の効果を様々な段階は、内閣の役割、および議会への情報のプレゼンテーションおよびそれらの質問へのブレア首相の応答はpublic.Mrと、ほぼ完全にもとらえどころのない、寛大な言い方をすると
- Small Talk: New fund focuses on India's growing infrastructure sector
The other week, when we looked at Great Eastern Energy Corporation, we began by running over India's growth prospects. But besides driving energy needs, the expanding economy also calls for an overhaul of the subcontinent's infrastructure, which remains in a woeful state. Years of underinvestment have left a sorry legacy of, among other things, potholed highways – most of which are single-lane roads – and ancient airports that are bursting at the seams. 他の週に、私たちはグレートイースタンエナジー株式会社を見た時、我々はインドの成長見通し上で動作することから始めました
- Ireland's crisis puts Germany in the eurozone driving seat | Larry Elliott
The republic's economic disaster gives Berlin a chance to complete the construction of the single currency on its own termsThese are desperate times for Ireland. The country is effectively bust, laid low by the asinine behaviour of its banks. Other countries have had recessions; the former Celtic Tiger is still in the grip of a depression. And, to cap it all, its coalition government is now struggling to retain remnants of economic sovereignty in a battle of wills with Germany, the paymasters of the eurozone. It is a battle Ireland will lose.Brian Cowan's Fianna Fail-Green administration is doing its utmost to avoid the humiliation that a bailout will entail. Like all governments in a life-or-death struggle with the markets, it has insisted that it can tough it out. John Major said exactly the same a week before Black Wednesday, but that has not discouraged policy-makers in Dublin from drawing up plans for a fresh austerity budget in the hope of defying history.From the middle of the 1990s until the start of the credit crunch in 2007, Ireland's growth was spectacular, averaging 6% a year. In the 1990s, it played catch-up with the rest of Europe: it used a low rate of corporation tax and its status as an English-speaking country to attract foreign inward investment in hi-tech sectors. In the 2000s, though, the boom became a bubble, as membership of the single currency left interest rates far too low for an economy expanding rapidly. Growth became dependent on construction and housing; the banks lent billions of euros to developers intent on concreting over the Emerald Isle. The legacy of the boom-bust in the construction sector is that the banks are insolvent, and are only kept going thanks to financial assistance from the European Central Bank.But if the bankers ha 共和国の経済的大惨事は、ベルリンにアイルランドの絶望的な時間です独自のtermsThese上の単一通貨の建設を完了するための機会を与えてくれます
- Every penny we give in aid to Africa must be made to count
International development secretary Andrew Mitchell has a budget ringfenced against cuts – but he will be under intense pressure to deliver resultsThe point of aid is to make aid redundant. So said Gordon Brown on his return to the political arena at the weekend. Speaking at a meeting of the African Union in Kampala, the former prime minister insisted that western donors shoul d keep the promises they have made to the world's poor but understand what development assistance was for. The point of aid was to kickstart business-led growth, not replace it.Brown's intervention was timely. The budgetary constraints facing rich nations in the aftermath of the financial crisis mean all governments will be forced to take a hard look at how much they are spending on aid, what they are spending it on and why they are spending it in the first place.The critics of aid will ensure that this takes place. They argue that too much aid is pocketed by corrupt elites. They argue that a good chunk of western financial assistance is wasted even when it doesn't find its way into numbered Swiss bank accounts. Above all, they argue that aid encourages a dependency culture. On all three counts, there is a case to answer.In Britain, the debate is already hotting up, in no small part due to the legacy left by Brown to David Cameron. Labour enshrined in law a commitment to raise UK aid spending to 0.7% of GDP by 2013, a pledge that would involve the budget of the Department for International Development (DfID) increasing by more than 10% a year. Cameron, in opposition, said he would stick by the 0.7% target, making international development one of only two areas of spending ringfenced against cuts.That makes Andrew Mitchell, the current development secretary, both a lucky and a marked man.Lucky beca 国際開発秘書アンドリューミッチェル予算を削減に対するringfencedている - しかし、彼は強烈な圧力援助のresultsTheポイントを提供することで援助が冗長にすることですされます
- Gulf oil spill's crude legacy claiming innocent victims
A baby sea turtle escaped from the jaws of a shark, only to get stuck in oil spilled from BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico.A young dolphin apparently was attacked by his mother, then swam into oil.The animals are among thousands... 赤ちゃんウミガメは、何千もの間にある明らかにoil.The動物にして彼の母親、泳いで襲われたMexico.A若いイルカ湾のウェルにBP社からの流出油にはまり込むために、サメの顎から脱出..
- Does Arnold Schwarzenegger have a future in politics? | Poll
Arnold Schwarzenegger is nearing the end of his term as governor of California mired in acrimony over the state's budget and with crashing approval ratings. With this legacy, does he have a future in politics?
アーノルドシュワルツェネッガーは、カリフォルニア州の知事としての任期の終わりをとげとげし州の予算をオーバー抜け出せずに近づいていると支持率をクラッシュした
- The story of Katine: the conclusion
Amref will stay in Katine for a further year to consolidate its work with continued funding from Guardian readers and Barclays, writes Madeleine BuntingThe Guardian's media coverage of the Katine project has now finished, but Amref decided that it wanted to stay in Katine for a further year to consolidate its work with continued funding from Guardian readers and Barclays.In particular, it wanted extra time to strengthen the community structures on which the long-term sustainability of the project depends.New boreholes will be constructed, with the aim of 85% of the community having access to clean water by the end of the fourth year, and Amref also wants to increase household latrine coverage from 39% to 75%.The offices built by Amref, and the small house built by the Guardian for its journalists, will be given to Katine as community resources. Several options are being considered about how to make the best use of these two buildings.The Guardian is planning to return to Katine intermittently over the next few years to report on how the community fares following Amref's withdrawal. Those articles will appear on the Guardian's new global development website.Amref and the Guardian are still working on plans for a form of legacy fund in Katine, with the aim of providing the community with a small amount of ongoing support.Project goalsAid and developmentKatine amrefUgandaMadeleine Buntingguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Amrefはガーディアンの読者、バークレイズからの継続的な資金調達と、その作業を統合し、さらに年間Katineにとどまる、現在完了KatineプロジェクトのマドレーヌBuntingTheガーディアンの報道を書き込みますが、Amrefは、さらに年間Katineに滞在することにしましたの85％を目指してBarclays.In特に、それは上のプロジェクトdepends.New。井の長期的な持続可能性を構築することのできるコミュニティの構造を強化するために余分な時間を望んでガーディアン読者からの継続的な資金およびその作業を統合するへのアクセスを有するコミュニティが四年末までに水をきれいにし、Amrefも75％に39％から家庭用トイレのカバレッジを向上したいと考えています
- The 111th Congress' legacy | Michael Tomasky
Here's a poll number that Greg Sargent found shocking, and Ezra Klein was more blase about. I think I'm closer to Sargent:[Findings among Democrats] Compared to recent Congresses, would you say this Congress has accomplished more, accomplished less, or accomplished the same amount? Among those who say less: When you say Congress has accomplished less this year, is that because Congress hasn't done enough or Congress has done the wrong things? More 33 Less and not done enough 18 Less and done wrong things 5 Same 37So only one-third of Democrats thinks the 111th Congress hasn't done enough? It passed five major bills, four of which aren't popular overall (Tarp, auto companies, healthcare and stimulus) but certainly have better numbers among Democrats. I find this strange. I guess most people just look at the unemployment rate and the shape of their local economy and figure it's not too good and therefore Congress hasn't done much.But I think this tendency in some liberal elite quarters to see the cup as half-empty has something to do with this perception too. As I've written many times, conservatives don't do this sort of thing nearly as much. If a Republican president and congress had done five things conservatives generally liked -lowered capital gains taxes, lowered corporate taxes, hemmed in the EPA in some way, taken some government services private, started a nice little war somewhere - even if they'd gotten only the proverbial half a loaf on all five things, most conservative commentators would be boasting about the revolution that was in the making and that would surely fulfill its triumph in the next Congress if only we got out there and voted in vast numbers and pressed the heel of our collective jackboot on the opposition's parched throat.The legacy of this Con ここでは投票数は、衝撃的なグレッグサージェントが見つかりましたことだエズラKleinの詳細については気ままなでした
- Chile: the other 9/11 anniversary | Raúl Zibechi
The devastating legacy of Pinochet's coup of 11 September 1973 goes far beyond the economy and the armed forcesOf the many military coups faced by the republics of Latin America, it is the coup of 11 September 1973 that has engraved itself most permanently on the collective memory. The images of the bombing of the Moneda Palace, of the despair on the face of Salvador Allende shortly before his suicide, of the defiant expression worn by Pinochet behind his dark glasses and of the public burning of books that circulated around the world and became the symbol of military brutality.The dispersal into exile of 200,000 Chileans, most of them to Europe, added to the media images of men and women who had seen their lives destroyed by the death or disappearance of friends and relatives. The murder of thousands of political opponents and the detention and torture of people who were identified with the constitutional government isolated the military regime internationally.The coup was supported by the US government of Richard Nixon. But after 1977, the Carter administration distanced itself from Pinochet because of his repeated violation of human rights. The regime remained in power for 16 years, becoming one of the longest lasting military dictatorships in Latin America, and it almost certainly introduced more changes than in any other country. Economic policy took a radical neoliberal turn under the influence of Milton Friedman. Allende's nationalisations were reversed and a programme of privatisations was introduced, together with the elimination of tariff barriers; this, alongside the banning of trade unions, produced a dramatic fall in real wages and an equally dramatic increase in business profits.During Pinochet's time there was a massive influx of foreign capital, which pr 11年9月1973多くの軍事クーデターラテンアメリカの共和国が直面する経済までと武装forcesOfを超えてのピノチェトのクーデターの壊滅的な遺産は、それはクーデターが1973年9月11日、最も完全に集団的記憶に自分自身を刻まれています
- Auf wiedersehen Britart: Germany wins when it comes to art | Jonathan Jones
Is Germany the greatest European art nation of the 20th century?Which country leads Europe in contemporary art? Britain, of course, you answer. Look at all those people flocking to Tate Modern. Wrong. The best artists in Europe today are German. The towering geniuses Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer radically contrast in how they conceive art yet both, from their divergent perspectives, one super-cool, the other romantic, achieve a profundity that makes most British art look trite.But to widen the question – which was the greatest European art nation of the 20th century? France? Wrong again. It was Germany. Only Germany has been at the forefront of modern art from the early 20th century right up until today. Paris declined as a creative capital after 1939, but German artists have been revolutionary for 100 years without missing a beat. The passion of expressionist painting and cinema, the fragmentation grenades of Dada, the idealism of the Bauhaus and realism of Neue Sachlichkeit – these German art movements of the early 20th century did not give way, as in France, to cultural decline but instead burned on into the 1960s and 70s, when Joseph Beuys showed that art can still reach into myth and memory to renew the world. Beuys and his legacy – continued by Kiefer, rejected by Richter – coincided with a great renewal of German cinema: for one aspect of the German genius is that fine art and film have merged there since the days of Murnau.And a final question – who created the Renaissance? Well, Italy did, but Germany was the first northern country to adapt Renaissance ideas to its own culture, and the only land north of the Alps to produce one of the masters of the High Renaissance – the towering figure of Albrecht Dürer, whose genius is celebrated in a timely new book ドイツは20世紀の偉大なヨーロッパの芸術の国ですか？現代美術のヨーロッパをリードしてどの国？英国はもちろん、あなたが答える
- New York Yankees mourn the old-school sports hero who helped usher in a more cynical new era
George Steinbrenner turned a dormant power into a world-beating baseball team. But his worldwide legacy may well prove to be even more significantIt has been a tale of two very different sports heroes in America in recent days, with one marking the passing of an era and the other becoming the cynical symbol of a new one.On the one hand last week New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner succumbed to a long illness, dying at the age of 80. Irascible and outspoken, combative and brutal, the Boss turned the Yankees from a dormant power to the dominant giant of modern baseball. Loyalty to the team was his watchword. It was impossible to imagine him having anything to do with any other baseball club.Which is, unfortunately, exactly what fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team thought of their own hometown hero, LeBron James. A supremely gifted player and Ohio native, James was worshipped by Cavaliers fans: a rare example of a native son playing out his career for the local team. Until last week, that is, when James held a live special broadcast on sports network ESPN to announce he was moving to Florida to play for the Miami Heat. The reason? Well, there were 110 million of them in the shape of the dollar value of his new contract. At a stroke James went from heroic athlete to media-obsessed egotist, cashing in his loyalty cheque to the highest bidder. He is now the symbol of what many say is wrong with modern sports worldwide: money is the boss.Yet perhaps Steinbrenner and James are not quite poles apart. In creating a team of world-beaters, Steinbrenner also created a ruthless business, dragging other baseball teams in his wake. He bought the Yankees in 1973 for just $8.7m. Now they are worth $1.6bn, with their players' wage roll alone costing $206m a year. Stein ジョージスタインブレナーは、世。鼓動の野球チームに眠って電源をオン
- Corruption index 2010 from Transparency International: find out how each country compares
Which country is most corrupt? Why has the US score gone down? See how the annual corruption index has changed• Get the dataThe Corruption Index is always controversial. And it's out today.Transparency International's 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is the world's most credible measure of of domestic, public sector corruption. The CPI scores countries on a scale of zero to 10, with zero indicating high levels of corruption and 10, low levels. And the most corrupt places in the world are not the most surprising. Unstable governments, often with a legacy of conflict, continue to dominate the bottom rungs of the CPI. Afghanistan and Myanmar share second to last place with a score of 1.4, with Somalia coming in last with a score of 1.1.The world's most peaceful countries score the best. In the 2010 CPI, Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore tie for first place with scores of 9.3. The ranking is based on data from country experts and business leaders at 10 independent institutions, including the World Bank, Economist Intelligence Unit and World Economic Forum. Transparency International says that it has seen improvements in scoresfrom 2009 to 2010 for Bhutan, Chile, Ecuador, FYR Macedonia, Gambia, Haiti, Jamaica, Kuwait, and Qatar. The scores of the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Madagascar, Niger and the United States have all gone down.The full data is below - and download the complete version for background scores and all the indicators. What can you do with it?Country summaryDownload the data• DATA: download the full list as a spreadsheetCan you do something with this data?Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at datastore@guardian.co.ukWorld government data• Search the world's government datasets• More environm どの国で最も腐敗ですか？なぜダウンして、米国のスコアは？年間腐敗指数は•破損インデックスは、常に議論の余地があるdataTheを取得変更されている方法を参照してください
- A word from our partners ... focusing on financial inclusion
The Katine project has helped us identify innovative ways to provide disadvantaged, remote communities with access to financial services, says Barclays Group chairman, Marcus AgiusAs we approach the end of the third year of the Katine project, now is a good time to reflect on some notable achievements and on the contributions that have been made.Looking back, we have come a long way and, at the beginning, I do not think we could have predicted just what a difference we would be able to make to the lives of Katine's people. We have been able to address a major cause of poverty in a targeted and integrated manner, creating a lasting and sustainable legacy. More importantly, the people of Katine are now more empowered and able to take responsibility for aspects of their own lives, from health and education to water, sanitation and income generation. This involvement in local governance is an important step in creating a sustainable and harmonious community, and in stark contrast to the social issues facing many people in Uganda after years of conflict and war.Having been to Katine and experienced the project first hand, I have closely followed progress ever since, and seen the strides taken in generating income and wealth by giving people the ability to save their hard-earned money. The project is progressing well, with real social outputs being delivered.Estimates suggest that 2 billion people globally do not have access to basic financial services, making it harder, if not impossible, for them to save for the future or invest in their own businesses and communities. Things we take for granted, like bank accounts, loans and insurance, are simply not available to many people in poor and remote communities.The Barclays-led community finance component has been acknowledged Katineプロジェクトは、私たちは、金融サービスへのアクセスと不利な立場に、遠隔地のコミュニティを提供する革新的な方法を特定する助けており、バークレイズグループ会長は、マルクスAgiusAs我々はKatineプロジェクトの3年目の終わりに近づく、現在いくつかの反映しても良い時間だという特筆すべき成果とバックmade.Lookingされているの貢献、我々が先頭に、長い道のりを歩いているのは、私は、我々はKatineの人々の生活に作ることができるのと同じ何の違いと予測している可能性はないと思う
- Michael Tomasky: Obama legacy, you choose
Kevin Drum offers a mordant observation in the wake of finreg passage:Here's the good news: this record of progressive accomplishment officially makes Obama the most successful domestic Democratic president of the last 40 years. And here's the bad news: this shoddy collection of centrist, watered down, corporatist sellout legislation was all it took to make Obama the most successful domestic Democratic president of the last 40 years. Take your pick.In any case, I think this probably marks the end of Obama's major legislative agenda. I don't give Congress much chance of passing a climate bill, and after the midterms the Democratic majority will either be gone or significantly reduced, making large-scale legislation just about impossible.Still, if you're a liberal, this is the best you've had it for a very long time. Whether this is cause for cheer or cause for discouragement is, I suspect, less a reflection on Obama than it is on America writ large.It has a lot more to do with America writ large. And I don't think it's necessarily the end of the legislative agenda. The guy potentially has six-plus more years as president. We can't know what the situation will be in 2014.I don't think these are small potatoes. As I've said a bajillion times, in an atmosphere with little precedent in American history, in which the US Senate is essentially dysfunctional and one of our two major political parties isn't even pretending to try to govern, these are achievements, especially for a guy who supposedly has no backbone and lets himself get kicked around.Obama administrationMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
ケビンドラムの通過をfinregをきっかけに媒。観測を提供する：ここでは良いニュースだ：プログレッシブ達成この記録は正式にオバマ氏を40年間で最も成功した国内民主党の大統領になります
- Survival of dynasties in south Asia attests to the legacy of British rule
Perhaps Birmingham wasn't such a bad place for the postponed debut of the latest member of the Bhutto clan to enter politicsIt was always an unlikely location for the crown prince of Pakistan to be formally presented to his nation. Birmingham is a long way from the bustle of Karachi, the bazaars of Peshawar or the barracks of Rawalpindi.But it was in the Midlands city that President Asif Ali Zardari, the current leader of Pakistan, was supposed to watch over the political coming out of his son Bilawal today.In the event, the investiture of the 21-year-old scion of the Bhutto dynasty was postponed – due to the humanitarian crisis back home in Pakistan. But that it will one day take place seems inevitable. The south Asian dynasties remain strong.In India, the great local democracy, Rahul Gandhi, 40, is almost certain to succeed the incumbent Manmoham Singh at some stage to become a fourth-generation prime minister, or at least principal candidate. In Bangladesh, the decades-old rivalry between Begum Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina Wazed for control of the country continues that between the late husband of one and the father of the other. Both died bloodily.In Burma, Nobel prize-winning opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of assassinated nationalist leader Aung San. In Sri Lanka, the son of controversial president Mahinda Rajapaksa has just won a seat in the family fief of Hambantota. At state or provincial level in all these countries, similar dynamics are at work.Experts point to different reasons for the tenacity of dynastic politics in the subcontinent. One is the need for any successful politician to bolster the hold on power by recruiting loyal retainers who will not defect for material gain; another is the importance of personalities in contests strippe おそらく、バーミンガムはブット氏の最新のメンバの延期デビューなど悪い所politicsItを入力するありませんでした常にパキスタンの皇太子の低い場所に正式に彼の国に提示された
- How the West poisoned Bangladesh
Up to 20 million people in Bangladesh are at risk of suffering early deaths because of arsenic poisoning – the legacy of a well-intentioned but ill-planned water project that created a devastating public health catastrophe. バングラデシュで20万人までヒ素中毒のため、早死に苦しみの危険にさらされる - は、壊滅的な公衆衛生の大惨事を作成善意が病気に計画された水プロジェクトの遺産
- US mopping up rubbish left by seven years of war
BAGHDAD - The United States military is removing tens of millions of pounds of hazardous waste accumulated during seven years of war amid concerns about America's environmental legacy in Iraq, officials said.Brigadier General... バグダッドでは - 米国では軍が有害廃棄物戦争の7年間、イラクでアメリカの環境遺産の懸念の中で蓄積された数百万ポンドの数を削除して米国、当局は全般said.Brigadier ...
- In Oil Spill Saga, Mysteries of the Deep Persist
Endless clues, few answers, in what caused the Gulf oil spill and what its legacy will be
Oil spill - Environment - Energy - Petroleum in the Environment - BP _NULL_
- 'Five pillars' of Mercedes-Benz Star fund
Environmental Protection - Under the Green Legacy Program, Mercedes-Benz has partnered with UNESCO in the last three years to support the preservation of World Heritage Sites in China.
Key achievements include the world's first advanced geographical information system established in panda sanctuaries in Sichuan as well as a three-year partnership agreement with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda to improve the overall living conditions of the young pandas.
The ... 環境保護-プログラムの下でグリーンレガシー、メルセデスベンツが中国で提携している最後のとユネスコのサイト遺産世界保全を支援する3年
- Philippines in race to make May 10 vote happen
Philippine presidential candidates wrapped up their election campaigns in a festival-style atmosphere on Saturday, as polling officials raced to deliver vote-counting software to remote precincts.Three months of intense campaigning were due to officially end at midnight with 50-year-old bachelor Benigno Aquino looking set to win Monday's election in a landslide and continue the legacy of his democracy-champion parents. 選挙管理委員が投票は激しい運動のリモートprecincts.Threeヶ月に正式に50歳の独身で深夜終了する予定されたソフトウェアを数える提供するレースとして、フィリピンの大統領候補は、土曜日に祭りスタイルの雰囲気の中で選挙を終えたベニグノアキノが地滑りで21日の選挙に勝つために、彼の民主主義のチャンピオンの両親の遺産を継続設定探し
- Seoul’s Mayor Campaigns for Green Transit
The mayor of Seoul, Oh Se-hoon, is seeking to build a defining legacy for his mayoralty, and has sought to improve his city’s environment. ソウル市長は、オセフン、彼の市長の定義、従来の構築を求めている彼の都市環境の改善を求めている
- Navigating India's language divides
When advocate Govinder Singh rose to make an argument in the Delhi High Court this month, he did what no lawyer had ever done before him and addressed the judge in Hindi.Singh's action was generally applauded for striking an overdue blow against a decades-old rule that insists on English -- the enduring legacy of British colonial rule -- as the working language of the Indian capital's top judicial bench. 時Govinderシンを提唱今月デリー高等裁判所で議論をするに上がり、彼は何も弁護士はこれまで彼の前に行っていたとHindi.Singhの行動していた一般的に数十年前のルールに対する延。打撃を与えようと拍手裁判官に対処したそれは英語で主張 - 英国の植民地支配の永続的な遺産を - インドの首都のトップ司法ベンチの作業言語として
- Sri Lanka one year on from war | Desmond Tutu and Lakhdar Brahimi
The country has started to rebuild since its brutal war with the Tamils, but genuine peace is more than the absence of fightingIt is now a year since the final stages of Sri Lanka's brutal war. Peace, however imperfect, is always better than slaughter. But experience tells us that genuine peace is more than the absence of fighting.On the first anniversary of the government's military victory over the Tamil Tigers, how far has Sri Lanka moved towards lasting peace? We should not downplay the achievements. After a conflict lasting 26 years, we share the relief of the Sri Lankan people at the end of the war.The desperate living conditions of the 300,000 Tamils driven from their homes last year have improved. Most have been released from military-run camps. Those that remain have more freedom of movement. This is welcome, although less than was promised.Tourism, such an important source of revenue, is recovering strongly. Its benefits should eventually be shared with those areas the conflict made off-limits to visitors.Economic activity in the north is picking up. Its communities are beginning to see the first signs of hundreds of millions of dollars donated by the international community for reconstruction. This money is desperately needed. Many returning to homes in the north have found them wrecked by shelling and looting. The infrastructure is shattered. Farming and fishing, the mainstays of the local economy, have yet to properly restart. Jobs are few and money is scarce.These challenges are always the legacy of heavy fighting. We have seen how, with determination, goodwill and support, even the most devastated lives and communities can be rebuilt.Repairing the physical environment can be easier than rebuilding trust, however. Without trust, peace will remain fragile a 国はタミル人との残忍な戦争以来再構築するが、始めている真の平和はfightingItの不在以上である現在の年ですスリランカの残忍な戦争の最終段階からです
- Subaru to recall Legacy and Outback 2010 models in China over cooler hose flaws
Japanese auto maker Subaru will recall 2,266 of its Legacy and Outback models to fixed faulty hoses in the automatic transmissions, China's top quality watchdog said Monday.
The recall was ordered to correct problems with the cooler hose, which could crack and leak fluid in 2010 models. The leaks could set off the warning light and prevent the vehicle from running in extreme conditions, said a statement on the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (G ... 日本の自動車メーカースバルはトランスミッション、自動のレガシーとアウトバックのホースの故障モデルに固定の意志リコール2266、中国の最高品質のウォッチドッグが明らかにした
- Subaru to recall 2010 car models Legacy and Outback
The Subaru China Company announced yesterday it will recall some 2010 model imported cars, including types of Legacy and Outback, starting June 14.
The Japanese-owned vehicle manufacturer said the recall involves 2,266 cars in mainland China that were produced from July 3 to Oct. 2, 2009.
Subaru China said the recall is due to modifications and incorrect operations during the manufacturing process. As a result of the errors, internal surface cracks can appear in the cooling hose of the con ... スバル、中国企業は14と発表した昨日6月からとアウトバックのレガシーは、輸入モデルを2010れますリコールいくつかの車を含め、種類の日本の中古自動車メーカーは10月と7月3日からリコールが含ま2266生産された本。車を中国2、2009スバル、中国は、プロセスと製造と変更リコールがために不正な操作中
- Profile: Candidates of Poland's presidential run-off (3)
Masterminded by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, PIS won the parliamentary elections and his brother was elected president in 2005. Jaroslaw Kaczynski became prime minister in July 2006. The twins formed the tandem governing the country until Jaroslaw Kaczynski lost office in a snap election in November 2007.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski is known for his nationalistic stance, putting up a frosty front both to the EU and to Russia. He said he would seek to build on the conservative legacy of Lech Kaczynski if he wer ... ヤロスワフカチンしてました、PIは、議会選挙で勝利した弟は2005年に大統領に選出された
- Kyrgyzstan: Stalin's deadly legacy | Edward Stourton
The trouble in Kyrgyzstan has many causes, and behind them all lies the ghost of the Soviet UnionTwo days before Osh erupted, my BBC colleagues and I dined at the city's sole international restaurant. It was a balmy evening, and we were shown to a table on the terrace.But our absorption in the menu was interrupted by an embarrassed waitress; the other group on the terrace didn't like us so close, and we would have to move. At the neighbouring table a group of men in shiny suits had a half-eaten banquet laid out before them, and they were drinking vodka toasts. More to the point, they were being looked after by an intimidating bunch of heavies. We moved.I asked our Kyrgyz driver whether humiliation like this was usual on an evening out. He shrugged and identified our fellow diners as an officer from the security forces, a local politician and a group of mafia bosses. He'd heard them discussing how to stitch up the referendum on a new constitution which is due in Kyrgyzstan on Sunday.Whether their plans included inciting violence I do not know, but the incident offered a glimpse into the way politics in Kyrgyzstan really work. The country has had two bloody revolutions in five years; in both cases authoritarian leaders were kicked out because of popular anger about the way they were ripping off the country. The interim president, Rosa Otunbayeva, is trying to break the cycle by introducing a parliamentary system, and this week's referendum is a critical step on that road. But she is fighting powerful interest groups.She blames supporters of the exiled president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, for the latest outbreak of violence in Osh, and the Bakiyev camp has already tried one counter-revolution. In mid-May a group of his southern supporters took over the main government building in キルギスのトラブルは、多くの原因があり、それらはすべてソ連UnionTwo日オシは、噴火前に幽霊をその背景には、私のBBCの同僚と私は市内の唯一の国際的なレストランで食事
- Guardian Daily podcast: 'Rigour and honesty' of scientists not in doubt, says review; legacy of 7/7 terror attacks
Climate scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit - whose emails were leaked by hackers - have been cleared of wrongdoing by an independent review. They'd been accused of falsifying data and trying to silence their critics in an effort to promote the case for man-made global warming. But environment correspondent David Adam says the scientists were insufficiently open when dealing with Freedom of Information requests.It's five years to the day that 52 people were killed by suicide bombers on London's public transport system. Some young people in Hounslow describe how they were affected by the attacks.Former London mayor Ken Livingstone praises London's response to the bombings.Writer Murtaza Shibli, author of 7/7: Muslim Perspectives, says British Muslims have been unfairly stigmatised by the government following the attacks.And the Guardian's home affairs editor, Alan Travis, explains how the bombings utterly changed government policy.Jon DennisTim Maby
イーストアングリア大学の気候研究ユニットで気候変動の科学者は - そのメールハッカーによって流出した - 不正行為の独立したレビューによってクリアされている
- Guardian Daily podcast: Alleged Russian spies and should Prince Charles influence architecture
The spectre of the Cold War returns amid new spying allegations in the USA. Chris McGreal reports the FBI charges. Former KGB spy Oleg Gordievsky, who defected to Britain during the Cold War, tells us his only surprise is that the Americans didn't act sooner. And the Guardian's security editor Richard Norton-Taylor reckons the Russian operation was amateurish.Peter Sale compiles a report on the legacy of the World Cup 2010. '1 Goal' is a Non Governmental Organisation teaching football to young South Africans, hoping it will lead to improved education and more good players.Prince Charles launches a robust defence of his involvement in the 3 billion pound redevelopment of London's Chelsea Barracks as Robert Booth explains. Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins defends the prince's right to say what he wants.Mike DuranTim Maby
アメリカで新しいスパイ疑惑の中で、冷戦を返しますの妖怪
- Experts: Production speed-ups to blame for frequent auto recalls
Vehicle manufacturers are hurrying production at the expense of quality-control, which is responsible for recent frequent car recalls, according to experts commenting on Subaru's announcement yesterday of a recall on imported models of the Legacy and Outback.
Within a month, nine automakers announced recalls involving malfunctions in engines, brake systems and transmission systems, including off-road vehicles and sedans.
A senior analyst, Jia Xinguang said 13.6 million cars were sold in Ch ... 自動車メーカーは、リコール車の最近の責任者はコントロールれ、犠。急いで生産で高品質な頻繁にアウトよるとレガシーの専門家のコメントスバルモデルのインポートリコールの発表は昨日の1ヶ月以内に、9つの自動車メーカーが発表したリコールセダン車両や伝送システムなど、オフロードシステムを含む不具合をのエンジン、ブレーキ
- Letters: Kyrgyzstan – hopes for a positive future
The Guardian is to be congratulated on its recent coverage of the humanitarian disaster in southern Kyrgyzstan. Edward Stourton's article (Kyrgyzstan: Stalin's deadly legacy, 21 June) set out some of the potential causes of the conflict. However, we now need to focus on how people in the UK can help make sure that vital aid – food, shelter, medical help – gets to those people who have been dispossessed and whose family and friends have been so brutally murdered in Osh and Jalalabad.Uzbek people who haven't been able to flee across the border to Uzbekistan have been forced to live in isolated ghettos where they still fear for their lives. Help is needed in order to fund and support activities that promote peace between Uzbek and Kyrgyz people. There is now hope that this could happen as the recent referendum result (Report, 28 June) is real positive progress for Kyrgyzstan in its move towards parliamentary democracy.A new voluntary initiative – Action for Peace in Kyrgyzstan – has been launched in order to help build bridges in these communities as well as provide emergency aid. Immediate plans involve supporting conflict victims in rebuilding their houses; building trust and promoting peace among people living in the city; restoring the basic infrastructure of Jalalabad and Osh by involving both Uzbek and Kyrgyz volunteers.Action for Peace is working in partnership with the Kyrgyz Red Cross/Crescent. This initiative must be given all the support it needs so that people whose lives have been so brutally shattered can now be helped to find peace and security.Penny RichardsonEdinburghKyrgyzstanUzbekistanInternational aid and developmentguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
ガーディアンは、南部のキルギスでの人道災害の最近の報道に祝福される
- Who can claim Newman? | The question
Cardinal Newman was the greatest English Catholic of the Victorian age. But whose side would he be on today?The beatification of John Henry, Cardinal Newman will be the centrepiece of the pope's visit to Britain this autumn. But his legacy is contested within the Catholic church. Depending on your angle, he is either a model for a liberal and fairly autonomous church, in which the believer's conscience is an authority higher than the pope, or a man whose example shows how the conscience can be educated and disciplined so that it would never disagree with the magisterium – and only then is it worthy of respect. Was he a man who showed how the church might change, or one who showed that it never really changed, only deepened and developed? Or is his real message to the church the one left in his enigmatic grave, which turned out to contain nothing at all when his remains were to be reinterred in preparation for this autumn's ceremony. His spirit was not to be found there. But where would it lead us today?ReligionChristianityCatholicismguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
ニューマン枢機卿が最大の英語カトリックビクトリア時代だった
- In praise of … Miklós Bánffy | Editorial
Fiction set in Transylvania has never recovered from the Dracula legacy which dictates that this remote part of Romania is the scene only of Gothic horrorFiction set in Transylvania has never recovered from the Dracula legacy which dictates that this remote part of Romania is the scene only of Gothic horror, a place of fantasy castles and inbred aristocracy. Yet for the writer and politician Miklós Bánffy, who died 60 years ago this month, the only horror in the bucolic landscape of his native territory (then Hungarian, but soon to revert to Romania) was the blind frivolity of his fellow Hungarian landowners, the consequences of whose refusal to face the future in the years before the first world war led to calamity and imperial collapse. His best known work, The Transylvanian Trilogy, (also known, for self-evident reasons, as The Writing on the Wall) charts this glittering spiral of decline with the frustrated regret of a politician who had tried to alert Hungary's ruling classes to the pressing need for change and accommodation. Patrician, romantic and in the context of the times a radical, Bánffy combined his politics – he negotiated Hungary's admission to the League of Nations – with running the state theatres and promoting the work of his contemporary, the composer Béla Bartók. Unlike most of his generation, he understood that his class was doomed and Hungary's hold on Transylvania threatened. He never abandoned the hope of reclaiming northern Transylvania but a last desperate bid during the second world war, which involved trying to persuade Romania to abandon the Axis powers, led only to the final destruction of the Bánffy estates.Romaniaguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feed フィクションは、トランシルヴァニア、ルーマニア、このリモート部分はゴシックのみのシーンhorrorFictionトランシルヴァニアに設定され、ルーマニア、このリモート部分はゴシックのみのシーンが決まりますドラキュラレガシーから回復ことがない指示ドラキュラレガシーから回復ない設定ホラー、ファンタジー城、近貴族の場所です
- Letters: Women and inclusive politics
Anne Perkins hits the nail on the head in her article about the near absence of women from the UK political landscape (Let us hear about political women, not politicians' wives, 24 March). The media focus on politicians' wives highlights the degree to which conventional attitudes about gender roles still hamper our perceptions of women in the public sphere.Sarah Brown's fashion sense or Samantha Cameron's pregnancy should not distract attention from the fact that fewer than 20% of Westminster MPs are female. Such underrepresentation means that the politicians still do not reflect the population as a whole. This gender disparity makes our parliament one of the most unrepresentative in Europe, and puts us below countries such as Afghanistan, Rwanda and Cuba in the percentage of female MPs.The next government must address why women continue to be underrepresented in the political and business worlds. We need to see positive action measures being brought in to increase the numbers of women in parliament. The Greens also support the introduction of a law to ensure that boards of major companies are at least 40% female, following the successful model in Norway.In the Brighton Pavilion constituency, where I'm standing, women have really come to the fore – in fact it's an all-female contest. Millicent Fawcett, whose husband Henry represented Brighton in the 1870s, was instrumental in getting women the vote. Let's hope that we can make good on her legacy by a push for equal representation.Caroline Lucas MEP Leader, Green party• Europe 2020 is the EU's new strategy for growth and employment. It is a crucial challenge for the EU, with its ageing population, to get more women into work. The Swedish government has worked hard for the inclusion of a gender equality perspective in the アンパーキンス（私たちの政治的、女性ではなく、政治家の妻、3月24日について聞く）みましょう英国の政治的な風景から、女性の近くにないことについての彼女の記事の頭の上にくぎ件見つかりました
- Letters: Western desert's second world war legacy
Jack Shenker's article reminds us again of the Devil's Garden (El Alamein: last stand, 29 June), seeded by deadly remnants of war during the second world war contest for the western desert of Egypt. While more recent conflicts have attracted landmine clearance and victim assistance funding, the western desert and the Bedouin, who continue to pasture herds, have been largely ignored. The extended battlefield of El Alamein has, between Libya and Alexandria, an estimated 16.7 million explosive remnants of war.While the Egyptian state has been tardy in ratifying the mine ban treaty and ambiguous as to whether it continues to produce, sell or stockpile anti-personnel mines, nonetheless the 500,000 inhabitants of the western desert are every bit as entitled to their share of protection from the effects of unexploded ordnance as are communities affected by later conflicts.The prioritising of our sympathy according to who has the greater number of landmines has somehow managed to allow the western desert to slip through the net, even though it is a strong contender for the top three landmine-infested areas in the world.Clearance is expensive, but elsewhere, for example Pakistan, we are close on the heels of battle: prevention of injury to civilians is effected through mine risk education, to instil safe patterns of behaviour when returning to homes and land; and local paramedic services, with rehabilitation for traumatic amputees. Resources and the interest of major donors is sadly lacking in the western desert. Europe's war wounds have been largely healed and the allies have moved on to levels of security and affluence probably few in the 1940s could have imagined. Yet, to our great shame, the shepherds over whose heads Europe's mightiest conflict was fought continue to pick t ジャックShenkerの記事は再び悪魔の庭（エルアラメインのを思い出させる：最後の抵抗を6月29日）、戦争の致命的な遺物で、エジプトの西部の砂漠の第二次世界戦争のコンテスト期間中にシード
- Japan and Korea have kept their newspaper readers, so why can't Fleet Street?
While it's all doom and gloom in the UK and US, other countries are finding newspaper readership at healthy levelsThis is the crunching age of international league tables, with their crunchy imperatives to buck up, cut back and consume large doses of the purgative of the day (as prescribed by the IMF, the ECB, the OECD or whoever). Greece, Spain, Portugal, Britain… we're all sinking ships, according to legions of newspaper pundits, the People Who Know. But what happens when one of these global monitors – the OECD – swivels round and looks at the state of journalism itself? Prepare to sit rather uncomfortably.An OECD working party produced a thumping report on newspaper futures last week that made big headlines in America. US circulations falling like a stone (only 30% saying they read a paper the previous day). Sales and advertising revenue down a walloping 30% in two years. Cue much familiar transatlantic wailing. So cue contrapuntal UK grins, plus smug lectures on the competitive wonders of our own fantastic press?Forget it. Cue white-faced gloom. In virtually every category, Britain fared second worst among all the OECD's 31 member countries. Our publishing market – turnover via sales and ads – had slipped 21% between 2007 and 2009, worse than Greece. Projected print advertising falls, at 26%, were the steepest in Europe. Only 33 British citizens out of 100 claimed to have read a paper recently – as opposed to 94% in Japan and 82% in Norway. There's no hiding the harsh truth, then. Something quite unconnected with Labour's legacy, banking perfidy and the rest is going wrong. Something direly needs to be done.Of course you can wheel in with explanations and excuses on tap. Circulation figures here made artificially worse by quality newspapers hacking away at bulk sale _NULL_
- The Business podcast: Europe's bailout and Gordon Brown's economic legacy
David Marsh, one of Britain's leading experts on the European single currency discusses whether the bailout has helped avert a new Lehman crisis. His book The Euro: The Politics of the New Global Currency is out now. After Gordon Brown announced his intention of resigning as prime minister, we look at his economic legacy. Will Hutton, a columnist for The Observer and one of the paper's foremost cheerleaders for the euro, and Jill Treanor, the Guardian's deputy city editor, make up our studio panel.Aditya ChakraborttyAndy DuckworthWill HuttonJill TreanorDavid Marsh
デビッドマーシュ、1つの欧州単一通貨の説明に、英国の一流の専門家かどうか救済は、新しいリーマンブラザーズの危機を回避してきました
- By the book: Turkish literature
From classical to contemporary, historical to travel, what to read for inspiration on TurkeyIstanbul, Memories of a City, Orhan PamukPoignant, lyrical childhood memoir from Turkey's foremost writer that brings the monuments, dilapidated Ottoman villas, backstreets and waterways of the anarchic, unusual city of his birth brilliantly to life. One of his earlier works, Black Book, is a fictional evocation of Istanbul in the repressive mid-1980s, a twisted detective novel that tackles the question of Turkey's cultural identity and reveals the city to be complex and crumbling. Faber and Faber, £9.99A Fez of the Heart, Jeremy SealA wry, lively quest for the heart of a country by way of the history of a hat that symbolises Turkey's cultural fault line. Not so much a book about headgear as an eccentric, entertaining portrait of a contradictory country culturally and spiritually at odds with itself, which reveals the tensions of Turkish life.Picador, £7.99Turkish Coast Through Writers' Eyes, VariousExcellent anthology of classical and contemporary writings, from the Odyssey and Plutarch to Freya Stark and Louis de Bernière, that examines the stretch of coast from Izmir to Antalya, covering subjects as varied as archaeological discovery, the march of Alexander's army, the pleasures of the hammam and Turkish cooking.Eland, £12.99Rebel Land, Christopher de BellaigueAcclaimed account of a journey to Turkey's inhospitable eastern provinces to examine the legacy of the violent conflict between Turks, Kurds and Armenians. Intensely personal and rigorously researched, it throws light on a dark subject, sifts fact from propaganda, partisan accounts and vague oral histories, and allows the reader to make up their own mind. Bloomsbury, £8.99 Lords of the Horizon, Jason GoodwinA loosely c 古典的な現代に、歴史から、どのようなTurkeyIstanbulにインスピレーション、思い出のための読みに移動する市、オルハンPamukPoignant、モニュメント老朽化したオスマン帝国の別荘、裏通りと無秩序、珍しい街の水路をもたらすトルコの一流の作家から叙情的な小児の回顧録生命誕生の鮮やかに
- Poland's tragedy, in which we all share | Denis MacShane
The death of President Lech Kaczynski and the cream of Polish political leadership is a desperate loss. Let us honour his legacyThe word decimate does not begin to do justice to the tragedy that has befallen the Polish nation. Over the forests of Katyn, again, the national leadership of Poland has been wiped out. It is not just President Lech Kaczynski, but among the dead are Poland's finest military commanders, who had restored Poland's reputation as a great soldiering nation. There were also the governor of the central bank and other senior ministers. There was Jerzy Szmajdzinski, the presidential candidate for the social democratic SLD party; Andrezj Kremer, the rising young foreign minister, seen as a future EU foreign policy star; the delightful Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, whom I knew as a fellow-member of the praesidium of the party of European Socialists, and who came to the Labour party conference last year. Leading Poles based in London, like the former president of the exiled Polish government in London, Dr Ryszard Kaczorowski, also died.Never before in modern or even recent European history has a national leadership been so abruptly removed. Every Pole will think of the abrupt and still mysterious death in a plane crash in 1943 of the Polish president general Wladyslaw Sikorski, who died when his plane nosedived into the sea off Gibraltar as he was returning from inspecting Polish troops serving under Field Marshal Montgomery.To be sure, Lech Kaczynski, who died together with his wife, Maria, was not, politically, everyone's cup of lemon tea. But he was a true son of Poland who sought always to uphold the honour and stature of the Polish nation and people as he saw them. He was a stalwart of the independent Solidarnosc trade union movement and fought to restore 大統領レフカチンスキの死とポーランドの政治的リーダーシップのクリームは絶望的な損失です
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