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...call it “The Great Sob-Story Shootout at Schadenfreude City.” Granted, no bullets will be fired in this battle, and no blood will be drawn. I write, of course, of the recent developments on the television program “Britain??s Got Talent,” our former colonizers’ “American Idol” equivalent. By now, you’ve probably seen the all-too-perfect video of contestant Susan Boyle’s crowd-wowing rendition of Les Miserables?...
...Mixed-commission courts were not post-conflict institutions intended to mete out justice for war crimes. They were, instead, functional components of Britain??s global efforts to suppress the slave trade in peacetime. Countries ratified the courts’ founding treaties because of incentives like money, threat of attack, and involvement. Each nation had a judge and a commissioner of arbitration involved, holding equal power on the court benches. The model was largely successful; the mixed commissions liberated about 80,000 slaves in their 50 years of existence...
...Taliban has regained legitimacy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, journalist Ahmed Rashid said yesterday in a lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School. Rashid, a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and Britain??s Daily Telegraph who wrote a best-selling book on the Taliban, said that the group has become a regional security problem—not just an Afghani one—and that it is causing instability in much of central Asia. “The Taliban has become a kind of brand now, not just of extremism but a model of society...
...have been told that Barclays, or whoever ends up acquiring Lehman’s U.S. investment banking operations, may end up honoring the original offers.” Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy last week, followed by the purchase of Lehman’s North American operations by Barclays, Britain??s third largest bank. Bresnahan said he had been attracted to the 158-year-old investment bank by its aggressive recruiting process. “Lehman had events every week, ranging from panel discussions to info sessions to resume workshops,” Bresnahan said. “Lehman...
...It’s kind of like an anti-festival in a way,” Barry Hogan says of All Tomorrow’s Parties (ATP), which he founded in 1999 as a smaller, more intimate alternative to Britain??s larger music festivals. But over the past nine years, Hogan has grown ATP into one of the world’s most robust music festivals, and later this month, ATP will hold its first festival in the New York City area, featuring shoegaze pioneers My Bloody Valentine in their first American show in 16 years.According to Hogan...