“But then or now, decent underwear or none, wild women never could hide their innocence – a kind of pity kitty hopefulness that their prince was on his way. Especially the tough ones with their box cutters and dirty language, or the glossy ones with two-seated cars and a pocket-book full of dope. Even the […]
The golem, an artificial man made by moulding clay into the shape of a man and reciting spells over it, has been described by Isaac Bashevis Singer as “the very essence of Jewish folklore”. Yet he has travelled far beyond the boundaries of Jewish folklore, starring on the silver screen and in Marvell comics, and […]
When students were asked to express their hopes and dreams for the future on canvas, they painted motorways. They wanted fast and effective escape routes. When the brushes were handed to children from the orphanage, they refused to use colour. All their painting was done in black These and many other illustrative responses from Sarajevo's […]
As the European Union consolidates its expansion into Eastern Europe, its Western European core is forced to confront the consequences of its past as a competitive nation-state system. The modern European state system was grafted onto Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries with the collapse of the […]
Second Album from the California obsessed Irish band.
In the usual annual lists of best books, several reviewers have mentioned the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. This 60-volume set is a snip at just �6,500.00. One critic in “The Spectator” claims it’s so good that it’s worth flogging your daughter’s pony to afford it. Such is The Spectator’s readership.At least it’s eligible for […]
With the dollar touching new lows against the euro almost every day, the United States’ trade deficit, running at about $600 billion a year, is much in the news. This article from the New York Times (requires free registration), which tracks the 22-day journey of the enormous Korean-registered container ship Hyundai Glory from China to […]
Silvio Berlusconi on Monday gave a barely concealed ultimatum to his coalition partners. After days of meetings, over proposed tax cuts, where he has met opposition from Alleanza Nazionale and UDC, Berlusconi, with as much rhetoric as he could muster (which of course was plenty), sent a letter, or as he put it a manifesto, […]
Silvio Berlusconi on Monday gave a barely concealed ultimatum to his coalition partners. After days of meetings, over proposed tax cuts, where he has met opposition from Alleanza Nazionale and UDC, Berlusconi, with as much rhetoric as he could muster (which of course was plenty), sent a letter, or as he put it a manifesto, […]