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The World and I
World and I is an encyclopedic journal that includes world news; developments in science, the arts and philosophy; book reviews; and photo essays. Since it was founded in 1986, it is printed monthly. The journal is published by Washington Times Corp.Subjects for World and I include science; literature and literary reviews; food and cooking; art; travel and tourism; politics; philosophy; music and musical instruments; drama and theatre. The editor is Steve Osmond.
Articles from Vol. 14, No. 9, September
A Farewell
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Departing from his best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars, novelist David Guterson sets a dying man on an uncertain journey. "We have heroes too. But usually, darling, they're much quieter." ----Catherine Barkley to Frederic Henry, in A Farewell...
America's Incompetent Foreign Policy Establishment
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The Special Report in Current Issues this month gives the Clinton administration an F in its management of foreign policy and national security issues. Although the Clinton team is at the nadir of the post-- World War II teams, readers of this space...
A Post-Clinton Foreign Policy : U.S. Foreign Policy Must Resonate with the Interests and Instincts of the American People
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The Clinton administration's foreign policy came in with a whimper and seems destined to go out with a bang. Seventy-eight days of banging Yugoslavia, to be precise. Were this conflict the administration's only use of force, it would hardly be significant...
At Home in the Plasma Universe
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The cosmos is a vast, interconnected body of invisible magnetic fields guiding electrified streams that become visible only where they converge to spin out galaxies and stars. Looking out from planet Earth on a clear night,we usually see nothing...
A World of Troubles : The Real Test for the Clinton Administration Has Been Its Relationships with the Great Centers of Power: Russia, Europe, China, and Japan
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William Jefferson Clinton enjoyed a unique opportunity when he was inaugurated on January 20, 1993. He became the first post--Cold War president. No modern American president has inherited a stronger, safer international position. The nation was at...
Beyond Efficiency and Rationalization : A Highly Standardized Educational System Is Slowing Giving Way to a More Flexibly Organized, Creative, Person-to-Person Style
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I'll never forget my first day at school some 40 years ago. It was in a typical white-collar area on the periphery of Tokyo. There they were, my 50 classmates, all sitting at their own designated desks chatting merrily. And I was just standing there...
Britain by the Bay
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Tracing a sixty-year span of British dance, the San Francisco Ballet's "English program" shows a sea change in aesthetics, theatrical morality, and audience expectations. When Helgi Tomasson took over as artistic director of the San Francisco Ballet...
Clinton's World
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Where in the world is President Bill Clinton going? His foreign policy over the last six and a half years has taken more turns than a Six Flags roller coaster. America's once-smooth relationships with Russia and China are tangled and troubled. But...
Commander in Chief Clinton : The President Has Demonstrated Many Times over That He Has a Gift If Not Genius for Adaptation and Survival
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Call it an omen. President Clinton's administration was only a few days old when the first sign appeared that all might not be well in his relations with the military. As an honor guard saluted the president on the White House lawn, Clinton brought...
Dalmatian Sun and Wine : A Sunny Landscape, Bounteous Grapes, and a Newfound Freedom Make the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia the Perfect Place to Explore Some Excellent Yet-to-Be-Discovered Wines
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"It has a marvelous color." That was the beginning of my crash course on wine--and Croatian wines in particular. "Just hold the glass against a white background like your sleeve and notice how dark or pale it is," explained Ed McCarthy, coauthor with...
David Guterson's East of the Mountains
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Before his first novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, burst onto the literary scene in 1995, David Guterson taught English at the high school on Bainbridge Island in Washington State. He had published a collection of short stories and a book advocating home...
Early Music's Charmed Circle
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The mind's eye is opened by ancient sounds at Boston and Berkeley festivals. In the beginning--the turn of the first millennium, that is--there was no "Early Music." And certainly there were no Early Music festivals. The idea of reviving for performance...
Fathers of Faith
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Religions can be investigated in many ways. Among other things, we can examine their doctrines, their rites and ceremonies, the testimonies and lives of their adherents, and the extent and pattern of their proselytizing and spread. Another effective...
Frederick Phillips : A Nobler Purpose
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"I believe that art should uplift the spirit, providing aesthetic enjoyment for the eye as well as symbolic content for the mind," says Chicago-area artist Frederick Phillips. Born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, in 1953, Phillips has painting in his...
From This Month's Menu
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We look out at the world, observing everything around us, yet cannot see our own watching eyes except with the aid of a mirror. By analogy, we form understandings of the world around us, both natural and cultural, yet can only do so with the aid of...
Greek Life ... with a Little Saz-N : Fraternities and Sororities Get a Latino Twist
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When Latino students enter college, feelings of excitement and anxiety tumble around in their minds and stomachs. For many of these 17- and 18- year-olds, it is their first time away from home. For some it is their first time sharing a room with someone...
Holding Parents Responsible
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Reprinted from the Chicago Sun Times, May 8, 1999, by permission of Creators Syndicate. Of all the irrational ideas that have been thrown around in the wake of the high school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, one of the most reckless is the proposal...
Horsin' in the High Country : After a 240-Mile Trek through the Outback of Northern British Columbia with a Bunch of Cowboy Wranglers, Reality and Romantic Notions of Travel on Horseback Diverge
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For three glorious weeks, time stood still. Now, sitting beside Tucho Lake, with our food running low, a broken radio, no idea when the plane would arrive, and the nearest town seven days of rough riding through the bush, the minutes seemed to crawl...
In the Mind's Eye: Our Emerging Visual Culture : Hollywood Conquers the World
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Ever since the first talking film, The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was shot in the summer of 1927, Hollywood's film industry has been a key contributor to an emerging worldwide visual culture. The enormity of the film's impact, shot at a cost...
Local Authority vs. Central Control : Paradoxically, the Labour Party, Which Now Has a Political Majority in Most Local Councils, Tends to Bypass Them and Control Schools from the Center
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When Prime Minister Tony Blair declared that his policy for a new Britain would be "education, education, education," it placed the nation's 24,000 schools, 400,000 teachers, and 8 million children right at the heart of national debate. In May 1997,...
Mbeki Replaces Mandela
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On June 16, 57-year-old Thabo Mbeki was inaugurated as South Africa's second black president, after the African National Congress (ANC) won 66.2 percent of the vote in the June 2 elections--just shy of the two-thirds majority the party was seeking....
Moses
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Jonathan Kirsch is a publishing attorney in Los Angeles, a book review columnist for the Religion section of the Los Angeles Times, and the author of two books about the Bible, The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible and, most...
Of Farms, Not Words : Life beside Norwegian Fjords
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It is so quiet. The crunching of our shoes on the gravel, the rustle of clothes, intrudes upon the day. I strain to hear the song of a distant bird, the occasional noises of people, carried on the light breeze. In the distance, children laugh and shout...
Our Quest of the Cosmos
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Deciphering the history and current status of the universe has led astronomers to startling concepts about its superdense origin, continuing expansion, subtle curvature, and exotic composition. Perhaps the greatest intellectual adventure humans...
Poet of Freedom: A Profile of Ismail Kadare
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Shusha Guppy is the author of The Blindfold Horse and Looking Back: A Panoramic View of a Literary Age by the Grandes Dames of European Letters. A poet, novelist, journalist, singer, and songwriter, she is the London correspondent of the Paris Review;...
Run, Salmon, Run
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Admired for their incredible life cycle, treasured for commercial and sporting ventures, this group of fishes is recovering well after a period of serious decline. Raven was lost at sea in a fog. Fog Woman found him crying and helped him find his...
Shifting Power in the Middle East
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Precisely half a millennium ago, Portugal's Vasco da Gama discovered an alternative all-water passage to India and the Orient via the Cape of Good Hope. Diverting Europe's lucrative spice trade from the traditional Red Sea caravan routes transformed...
Shifting Power in the Middle East : Three Possible Flashpoints
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The Middle East has earned the reputation of being a Pandora's box of unsettling surprises. Among the many potential crisis flashpoints in the region, there are three that could hold particularly nasty surprises: Syrian succession, Kurdish nationalism,...
South Africa's Presidential Election : The Challenge for South Africa
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UNITED STATES--The slums in South Africa are as bleak as any in the world- -miles of single-room hovels, each holding a huge family or two, with no electricity or water and only a bucket for waste. Apartheid forced millions of blacks into these slums,...
South American Sushi : Liberdade, Brazil's Little Tokyo
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Smack in the middle of the nonstop frenzy of activity that is Sao Paulo, Brazil, an orderly neighborhood seems to defy conventional reason. Liberdade, a Japanese community of 600,000--the biggest outside Japan-- sits in the center of the world's second-largest...
Sun Yat-Sen and His Legacy
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Leonard H.D. Gordon is professor emeritus of Chinese history at Purdue University and coauthor, with Sidney H. Chang, ofAll Under Heaven: Sun Yat-sen and His Revolutionary Thought (Hoover Institution Press, 1991). The history of China is filled...
Ten Trends That Will Shape American Politics
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Despite many dire predictions about the future and the business cycle downturns we experience from time to time, I believe that we are in the midst of sea-change trends here and abroad that will positively influence the political course of America...
The Astronomer's New Tools
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Astronomical observation is entering a golden age, thanks to the converging technologies of computers, microelectronics, fiber optics, lasers, detectors, gigantic mirrors, and space operations. Looking at the stars isn't what it used to be. The...
The Business of Reading : The Birth of the Book-of-the-Month Club
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Shawn Crawford is a freelance writer from Stillwater, Oklahoma. He wrote about serial novels for The World & I in November 1998. No one can be certain what will ignite a revolution in popular culture. For all the forecasting and claims of "synergies,"...
The Military and Modern Society : Civilian-Military Relations in Post-Cold War America
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John Allen Williams is associate professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago (jwilliaor of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society at Northwestern University. The views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily...
The Partial-Birth Abortion War
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After a two-day trial at the end of May, U.S. District Judge John Shabaz found Wisconsin's ban of partial-birth abortion to be constitutional. The decision made national news, since almost every other court to review such bans has ruled the contrary:...
The Passing Herd : The Last Reindeer Herders of Tuva, Siberia
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Dawn broke weakly into the forest clearing as reindeer herders Vassily and Slava warmed themselves by the open fire in their camp. A kettle steamed, and a breakfast of two grayling roasted on sticks. It was a chilly July morning. As the sun rose through...
Truths and Waters : The Sagas of Baden-Baden
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According to medieval legend, when missionary monks came to spread Christianity in Germany's Black Forest, large numbers came to hear what they had to say. The people hoped for reprieve from their daily plight. They received a message of salvation...
TV's 'Evil' Businessmen
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Television critics have complained for decades about the crude usage of caricatures and stereotypes that demean women, blacks, Latinos, homosexuals, and the disabled. But one stereotype seems to have no lobby in Hollywood to complain: the businessman,...
What Is Productivity?
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John Attarian's review of Peter Peterson's Gray Dawn ["Demographic Iceberg Dead Ahead," June 1999, p.260] shares with its subject a dubious notion of productivity. The conventional economist's definition of productivity is based not on how many goods...
You Can't Sue the King
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Probation Officer Alden just wanted to get paid for his overtime. As an employee of the state of Maine, he had worked long hours and wanted the overtime pay he felt he deserved. After all, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), a federal law passed by...
'You're Too Kind' : Since There's a Lot of Money to Be Made off People's Addictions and Fears, the Y2k Crisis Is Fertile Ground for Lucrative Risk Management
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There has been much anxiety and alarm about the so-called Y2K problem, a computer "glitch" that may occur when the internal processors of computers fail to recognize the year 2000. This could result in worldwide computer "crashes" as a direct consequence,...
