- Eric Hobsbawm on multiculturalism | Andrew Brown
A 2003 interview with Eric Hobsbawm illuminates his views on Tito's Yugoslavia and the future of multiculturalismIn 2003 I made a BBC Radio 4 Analysis programme on ethnic cleansing, inspired, in part, by a profile I had written for this paper of Benny Morris, who believes in it. Half way through the research, I was at the annual Guardian features party, and there, sitting alone in a corner amid the drums and bass, was Eric Hobsbawm. I went over and we shouted at each other until we had agreed an interview about nationalities and how they can live together. Some of it was used in the programme, but there are still some interesting fragments in the transcript. Here is one: AB: You say that [ethnic cleansing] shouldn't be accepted, but can we hope to roll it back? To take a practical example – when you look at Kosovo, is there any way in which a fractured, formerly multi-ethnic society can be put back together?EH: Well it was done. It was done in Yugoslavia under Tito, so the fact is it can be done. If you start splitting societies, that is the safest recipe for ethnic cleansing - whether it's multi-national societies or multi-national empires, that's what happens - so my answer would be avoid splitting societies.AB: [But] I don't see that the United Nations could ever use Tito's methods. Or should actually.EH: What was Tito's method in this respect?AB: Well I mean he ran a full on Stalinist dictatorship which did indeed suppress an awful lot of inter-ethnic bad feeling, but at a price which I don't think that the United Nations could possibly pay.EH: I think you make a mistake there. You see Tito believed in fact in Yugoslavia as a mixture or a federation of equal nations. The only really bad feeling he created was against the Serbs, who had been used to being rather pre エリックホブズボーム2003年のインタビューは、ティトのユーゴスラビアで私は、部分的に民族浄化、インスピレーションにBBCラジオ4解析プログラムを作った彼の意見をmulticulturalismIn 2003の将来の点灯、私はベニーモリスは、と考えているのはこの論文の書かれていたプロファイルでそれです
- Roy Greenslade: Pete Seeger sings about journalists and their union
A friend emails to point to this video of the wonderful Pete Seeger singing the first verse of Newspapermen meet such interesting people. The song, written by Vern Partlow (best known for his 1945 anti-nuclear protest song Old Man Atom), ends with support for the US journalists' union, the Newspaper Guild. I guess, at a stretch, it could be adapted for the NUJ. Seeger is 86 in this clip and, earlier this month, celebrated his 91st birthday. Here are the full lyrics...Oh, a newspaperman meets such interesting people,He knows the lowdown (now it can be told);I'll tell you quite reliably off the record,About some charming people I have known.For I meet politicians and grafters by the score,Killers plain and fancy, it's really quite a bore.Oh, a newspaperman meets such interesting people,He wallows in corruption, crime and gore.Ting-a-ling-a-ling, city desk!Hold the press, hold the press;Ex-tra, Ex-tra! Read all about it!It's a mess, meets the test.Oh, a newspaperman meets such interesting people,It's wonderful to represent the press.Now, you remember Mrs Sadie Smuggery,She needed money for a new fur coat; To get insurance, she employed skull-duggery;She up and cut her husband's only throat.She chopped him into fragments, and stuck them in a trunk; She shipped them to her uncle back yonder in Podunk.Oh, a newspaperman meets such interesting people;It must have startled poor old Sadie's unc.RefrainYes, a newspaperman meets such interesting people;I've met the girl with million dollar knees;The guy who sat five years upon a steeple(Just where the point was, I could never see).I've met Capone and Hoover, and lots of other fakes;I've even met a genius who swallows rattlesnakes.Oh, a newspaperman meets such interesting people;The richest girl who could not bake a cake.RefrainOh 友人は素晴らしいピートシーガーのこの動画をnewspapermanの最初の詩を歌ってこのような面白い人に会う指すようにメール
- China should increase social spending: OECD report
China should further step up social spending to push forward reforms such as health care, welfare and education to sustain its economic growth, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in a report on Tuesday.
Although China's reforms have increasingly focused on the need for social cohesion in recent years, said the report, more efforts are still needed in various areas to improve people's living standards over a longer term.
The fragmented system of welfare a ... 中国は、保健医療、福祉、教育などの経済成長を維持するために進む改革を推し進めるための社会支出をステップアップする必要があります、組織の経済協力開発機構（OECD）は14日のレポートで述べている
- From the archive, 19 July 1917: Shrapnel-proof coats for soldiers
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 19 July 1917LONDON. WEDNESDAYModern forms of medieval armour.Some interesting details of the most recent protective invention for soldiers were given by Dr. C. W. Saleeby in a lecture at the Royal Institute of Public Health this afternoon. Many of Dr. Saleeby's suggestions as to the shape, and so on, of the steel helmet now worn by our army were adopted by the Government, and besides describing the latest improvements in the helmet, Dr. Saleeby gave the first account of a new shrapnel-proof jacket.The helmet now in use was modelled on the one adopted by the French in 1915. It is manganese steel, extremely hard, tough, and unsplinterable, with a low pitch of curvature in the crown for the purpose of deflecting bullets. The weight is properly distributed round the head, and the lining is padded with india-rubber to kill the force of a blow.Dr. Saleeby placed a soldier's helmet on his head and struck himself a violent blow with a heavy sheet of steel – without having to pause for a second in his lecture.The most recent improvement of the helmet is the chain visor, of which hundreds of thousands are now in use in France. This is a piece of steel chain mail which falls over the eyes like a veil as far as the bridge of the nose, and is tied on behind. Its purpose is to guard the eyes from fragments, of sand, rock, or metal splinters striking from below, which are the cause of nine out of ten cases of blindness in the army.The visor does not seem to be very popular with the soldiers at present, as the chain mail tends to cause abrasions of the nose. It is said that at the Battle of Arras men wearing a visor went into action with the helmet turned front to back, and it is probable that some lost their sight in&nb もともとマンチェスターガーディアン7月19日1917LONDON上で公開
- LPO/Alsop | Classical review
Royal Festival Hall, LondonMarin Alsop's latest concert with the London Philharmonic prefaced Górecki's Third Symphony with UK premieres of works by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Philip Glass. Turnage's Texan Tenebrae draws its material from Anna Nicole, his forthcoming opera about the life and drug-related death of Anna Nicole Smith. The piece is notable for its hallucinatory quality and unvarying shrillness. A distorted phrase from Mahler's Kindertotenlieder weaves through a tangle of clanging bells, fragmented schmaltz and acid percussion rasps. Alsop and the LPO did much with its tatty glamour, but it sounded like a chunk from a longer work that needs the rest to supply its meaning.Glass's Violin Concerto No 2 is subtitled The American Four Seasons. Written for Robert McDuffie as a Vivaldi companion piece, it links Glass's own minimalism to the classicism and neo-classicism of the 18th and 20th centuries respectively. Baroque in scale, and slyly using a synthesiser as continuo, it interweaves unaccompanied solos with formal movements of great melodic beauty. Moments of suspect intonation showed that McDuffie was pushed to his limits, though the standing ovation at the close was richly deserved.Górecki's Third, meanwhile, was unforgettable and, in its context, unique. It was dedicated to the 96 victims of the Polish plane crash, and a minute's silence was requested at the end. Unable to fly to London due to current airline restrictions, soprano soloist Joanna 。ós had driven across Europe to get here. Despite – or perhaps because of – its former popularity, the symphony's outings are rare; this was a reminder of just how gut-wrenching it can be. 。ós, dark-toned and fearfully intense, was matchless in it.Rating: 4/5Classical musicPhilip GlassAntonio VivaldiPolandTim As ロイヤルフェスティバルホール、ロンドンフィルハーモニー管弦楽団とLondonMarinアルソップの最新コンサートマーク。。u003dアンソニーターネイジとフィリップグラスの作品の英国プレミアでグレツキの交響曲第3に始まります
- Cameron asked to intervene on new UN women's agency
Talks on a new UN agency for women do not appear to be going well, as member states argue over representation and the mandate. NGOs are asking British Prime Minister David Cameron to use his influence at the G8.With a big focus at the G8/G20 in Canada this weekend on saving the lives of women in pregnancy and childbirth and their newborn babies, there are many who think it's time to get the new UN women's agency up and running.Last September, the UN General Assembly accepted the proposal of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for a new single organisation under the UN umbrella which would promote women's rights and equality around the world. But some think the negotiations are getting bogged down to the point where the agency, if it ever gets off the ground, will be pretty ineffective.In frustration at the slow progress, VSO and the UK Gender and Development Network have now written to David Cameron, asking him to press the G8 members and the other UN states to reach consensus on an agency that has real ambitions and the mandate to get things done. This is what they say in their letter:We believe a new women's agency has the potential to make a lasting difference to the lives of millions around the world by helping women give birth safely, stay in school longer, live free from violence, and earn an income. With just five years until the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, a new women's agency is desperately needed to overcome the entrenched apathy among many governments and UN agencies to making progress on women's equality. A new women's agency will reduce the incoherence, fragmentation, and lack of leadership on women that currently characterises the UN system. Greater efforts to empower women and improve their status will drive reductions in maternal mortality, 女性のための新たな国連機関の協議は加盟国が表現と任務を議論も、行くことに表示されません
- Mainland forges consolidation of steelmakers to gain global clout
The mainland's drive to consolidate its fragmented steel sector is set to forge a handful of global giants, turning up the heat on top producers including ArcelorMittal and enabling it to play hardball with material suppliers such as Rio Tinto.
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- 'X woman' bone from new species
To the trained eye of the palaeontologist, the tiny fragment of fossilised bone can be identified as coming from the little finger of a child who lived about 40,000 years ago in the Altai mountains of southern Siberia.But in the... 古生物学者の訓練を目にするには、化石骨の小さな断片子供たち40000年ほど前に南部Siberia.Butのアルタイ山脈に住んでいた小指から来たものとして識別することができます...
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- Laura Bush: pro abortion and gay marriage | Richard Adams
Only several years after it might have made any difference, Laura Bush publicly supports gay marriage and abortionIf you'd harboured doubts that Laura Bush wasn't the red-blooded conservative type – in the mould of Dick Cheney's wife Lynne, who is possibly even more awe-inspiring than the former vice president – then you were right.Doing the round of TV talkshows, punting her mildly interesting autobiography Spoken from the Heart, Laura Bush last night visited Larry King's CNN chatshow – an ancient US tradition, similar to an incoming British prime minister kissing the Queen's ring. During the interview she makes it clear that she supports gay marriage and – in some circumstances – a woman's right to choose abortion. All of which puts her slightly to the left of the current occupant of the White House. Which is great but ... now you tell us.In the current climate within the Republican party, a presidential candidate's wife with such views would probably be stoned to death. Figuratively speaking. But it does show that even within today's Republican party – assuming you can define Laura Bush as a Republican – there is still a fragment of the sensible right remaining.Anyway, here's the CNN transcript:Larry King: Gay marriage, you tell us in the book that during the 2004 campaign you talked to George about not making it a significant issue. Do you think we should have it?Laura Bush: Well, I think we ought to definitely look at it and debate it. I think there are a lot of people who have trouble coming to terms with that because they see marriage as traditionally between a man and a woman. But I also know that, you know, when couples are committed to each other and love each other, that they ought to have I think the same sort of rights that everyone has.King: So would that わずか数年は何の違いもあるかもしれないが後、ローラブッシュ大統領が公に同性愛者の結婚とabortionIfあなたが疑問をローラブッシュ大統領が精力的に保守的なタイプではなかった温床と思いますサポート - 可能性もいるディックチェイニー副大統領の妻リンの金型内に詳。畏敬の念を元副社長以上の感激は、 - その後、テレビtalkshowsのラウンドをright.Doingされた、彼女の穏やか興味深い自伝を最後の夜ハート、ローラブッシュ大統領から音声パンティングラリーキングのCNNのchatshowを - 古代米の伝統に似て訪問着信英首相女王のリングにキスをする
- Netherlands election: Austerity with a conscience | Editorial
Whenever a party of the extremes polls dramatically well in Europe, many here see this as the most important featureCoalition politics are still a novelty in Britain. But they are everyday stuff in the Netherlands, where no party has won an overall majority since the first world war and none has polled more than 30% of the vote in more than 20 years. Even so, this week's general election has produced an exceptionally fragmented result, with the Liberals leapfrogging from fourth to first in the vote, though still with only 20% support and a mere 31 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament, while the previously governing centre-right Christian Democrats plunged in the opposite direction to 14% (21 seats), the worst result in the party's history.Whenever a party of the extremes polls dramatically well in Europe, many here are tempted to see this as the most important feature of the result. This week the Freedom party of the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim Geert Wilders more than doubled its vote, finishing third on 15%, and is demanding a place in whatever coalition emerges from the Netherlands' long process of government formation. Yet this success must be seen in perspective. In an election where many conditions – the recession and the eurozone crisis among them – favoured a protectionist and xenophobic party, Mr Wilders actually polled less well that his predecessor party, the Pim Fortuyn List, did in 2002. The Freedom party's 15% is certainly disturbing, but it is very much on a par with similar movements in Belgium, France and Denmark which have rarely been able to push beyond the mid-teens of public support. And outsider parties have often done well in recent Dutch elections before falling back – exactly what happened to the leftwing Socialists in 2006 and 2010.A ヨーロッパでは極端な調査の当事者は、劇的にも、多くはここで最も重要なfeatureCoalition政治としてこれを見るたびに、まだ英国では目新しされます
- Asteroid fragment fascinates scientists
Considering the problems that have plagued the Japanese space probe Hayabusa during its seven-year, 2.5 billion-mile unmanned mission, it was remarkable that it returned home at all, never mind in quite so spectacular a fashion.Early... はやぶさは、7年間、2.5億マイル無人ミッションを日本の宇宙探査機を悩ませている問題を考慮すれば、驚くべきことは、家庭のすべてのは、決して心でで返されたそれほどfashion.Early壮大な...
- Newsweek on Block as Era of Newsweekly Fades
The sale raises questions on whether a fragmented nation still looks to magazines to define the weekly conversation. 販売かどうかを断片化された国はまだ雑誌に毎週の会話を定義するように問題を提起
- Michelangelo letters up for grabs as Renaissance archive goes up for sale
Government in Rome fights to keep Giorgio Vasari archive leaving Tuscany after purchase by mystery RussianAn artistic and literary enigma involving a mysterious death and a €150m deal reportedly struck in a Moscow hotel is expected to be resolved this weekat an auction in the Tuscan city of Arezzo.On sale will be the archive of the man credited with being the father of Western art history: Giorgio Vasari, whose Lives of the Artists chronicled the lives of the painters and sculptors of the Renaissance. The documents include 17 letters from Vasari's friend, Michelangelo, together with correspondence from five Renaissance popes and the 16th-century ruler of Florence, Cosimo I de' Medici.The archive is subject to an Italian government order that it should never be removed from Vasari's house in Arezzo. But last October, Giuseppe Fanfani, the mayor of the city, was told by an official it had been bought by a Russian gas magnate for €150m. Agreement was said to have been reached on 23 September, just days before the death of Count Giovanni Festari, the archive's owner.The mayor noted that the government order could be lifted in the future, and that unless the Italian state outbid the tycoon within six months, ownership of an irreplaceable fragment of Italy's history would be lost abroad. The announcement of the sale prompted an outcry from scholars and questions from art experts who said the archive was worth, at most, €10m.There was yet more confusion when a lawyer claiming to represent the unidentified buyer announced that his client too had died – in a car crash. But the date he gave for the accident was 14 days before the deal was said to have been struck at the Hotel Metropolitan in Moscow.Then, last November, government debt collectors claimed the archive to meet a bill 政府は、ローマの戦いのジョルジョヴァザーリアーカイブ謎RussianAn芸術と文学でのご購。謎謎の死事件の後、報道は、モスクワのホテルで三振€150メートル対処トスカーナを残し、このweekatアレッツォ、トスカーナの都市で競売解決することが期待されて維持する
- Honda recalls nearly 379,000 cars over airbag defects in U.S.
Honda Motor Co. said on Tuesday that it is recalling over 378,758 vehicles sold in the United States, expanding a recall that began in November 2008 over concerns that airbag inflators could rupture and cause serious injuries or death.
There have been 12 incidents of airbag inflators deploying with too much pressure, causing the inflator to break apart and sending metal fragments through the airbag cushion. The problem has resulted in at least one fatality, said the American Honda based in To ... ホンダは13日、378758車の米国内で販売では、2008年11月の懸念は、エアバッグの膨。破裂して重大な傷害または死亡を引き起こす可能性がで始めたのリコールを拡大リコールしていると述べた
- Iraq's delayed democracy | Fawaz Gerges
Far from a triumph, Iraq's national elections have created a constitutional and leadership vacuum as sectarianism prevailsAlthough Iraq's second parliamentary elections since the US-led invasion represent a milestone, they will neither resolve the country's existential crisis nor bring it closer to genuine democracy. Results released by the inept Independent High Electoral Commission show little change in political attitudes and loyalties. On the whole, Iraqis did not vote according to party or ideology. Sect, ethnicity, and tribe trumpeted other loyalties, including the nation.For the foreseeable future, Iraqi politics will be toxically fragmented along sectarian, ethnic, and personality lines, though fear of all-out civil war is unwarranted. A week after the balloting, prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition and the cross-sectarian Iraqiya coalition, headed by ex-premier Iyad Allawi, were projected to win roughly the same number of seats – about 87 each – in Iraq's 325-member parliament.The Iraqi National Alliance (INA), a grouping of Shia religious parties closely linked to Iran, is set to come a close third with 67 seats, while the powerful main Kurdistan alliance of President Jalal Barzani and Massoud Talabani led as expected in Erbil, the autonomous Kurdish region, with 38.Far from a triumph for democracy, the results threaten to plunge Iraq into a constitutional and leadership vacuum. With Maliki and his main rival, Allawi, falling short of the 163 seats needed to govern alone, they will probably need to ally with one or two blocs to form a coalition government – a complicated negotiating process fraught with security risks and that might last months, putting sectarian leaders back in the driving seat.After the last parliamentary poll in 2005, sec これまで、イラクの国民議会選挙のマイルストーンを表すと米以来、派閥prevailsAlthoughイラクの2番目の議会選挙としてのリーダーシップ真。憲法主導の侵攻を作成しての勝利から、彼らはどちらの国の実存的な危機が解決されるも持ってきて真の民主主義に近い
- Cargo carriers brace for more consolidation
A cargo joint venture agreed last week between Hong Kong flag-carrier Cathay Pacific Airways and Air China will likely trigger a wave of consolidation in China's highly fragmented air cargo sector, operators say.
貨物合弁会社は先週香港フラグキャリアキャセイパシフィック航空と中国国際航空の間の可能性が高い、中国の高度に細分化、航空貨物部門の統合の波を引き起こすことに合意した、演算子と言う
- Eyes on far right as Dutch vote
Anti-Muslim populist hopes to establish Freedom party at local government level for first time as general election loomsThe Dutch went to the polls today to elect local authorities in a ballot seen as a gauge of the national mood and the strength of the far right, 10 days after the government collapsed and three months before national elections.With almost 400 local authorities being elected, the focus was on only two, the votes in the capital The Hague and the central town of Almere, because of the campaign by the anti-Muslim populist Geert Wilders to establish his Freedom party in local government for the first time.Wilders, who likens the Qur'an to Hitler's Mein Kampf and wants Muslim immigrants deported, is bidding fair to win the general election in June, with the latest opinion polls giving him 27 of the 150 seats in The Netherlands' highly fragmented political scene.The maverick rightwinger is expected at the House of Lords on Friday on an invitation from the UK Independence Party for a screening of his incendiary anti-Islamic film, Fitna, after the Home Office barred him from entering Britain last year, a ban that was rescinded.Today the town halls in The Hague and Almere were under heavy security because of the tension fanned by the Freedom party campaign. In both towns and elsewhere scores of men and women turned up to vote wearing headscarves, in an ironic protest against Wilders's demand for a tax on Muslim headgear and for the wearing of headscarves to be banned in all public buildings.His Freedom party is running for only two local authorities because of a lack of resources and candidates.While local elections in Holland are usually a subdued affair focused on issues such as cycle paths and rubbish collection, today's poll was dominated by immigration and 反イスラムの大。期。総選挙loomsTheオランダ語として初めての地方政府レベルでの調査に、今日の投票、国民の気分のゲージとこれまで、10の右の強さとして見られるの地方自治体選挙に行って自由のパーティを確立する日後には、政府と約400の自治体に選出された国家elections.With 3カ月前に崩壊し、焦点は2つだけにされ、反キャンペーンのためには、首都での投票ハーグとアルメレの中心街、イスラム教徒ポピュリズムGeertワイルダー地方政府ではヒットラーの我が闘争には、クルアーンに例えるとイスラム教徒の移民を追放したいの最初のtime.Wildersのため、公正、6月の総選挙で勝つために入札されると、最新の世論調査で彼の自由のパーティを確立する彼の27日、オランダの非常に断片化された政治scene.The一匹狼rightwingerで150議席を与え、貴族院は10日に英国の独立党からの招待で彼の扇動的な反スクリーニングイスラム映画、フィトナのために期待されてホームオフィスは昨年、rescinded.Todayハーグのタウンホールやアルメレされた禁止英国入力してからの緊張のため、厳重な警備下にあった自由のパーティーキャンペーンに煽られる彼を認めていなかった
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