BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS July 2015 I wanted to talk to Barry Morse about Lieutenant Gerard, the dogged detective he had played for four seasons in The Fugitive, one of the biggest TV hits of the 1960s. But Morse wanted to talk about
JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs July 17, 2015 Having used his anti-corruption campaign to remove any challengers to his power atop China’s Communist Party, President Xi Jinping is now bent on crushing increasingly assertive and publicly influential human rights lawyers. Last weekend, in an
A Dutch court recently ruled that greenhouse gas reduction is a state obligation. Here’s what that could mean for the rest of the world. By Sophia V. Schweitzer, Ensia July, 2015 On June 24, 2015, a court in The Hague ordered the Dutch
On Tuesday July 14 the New Horizons passed the dwarf planet Pluto in the Kuiper Belt, capturing our first images of an object named for an underworld god but until now perhaps best known as the name of a cartoon dog. What
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Among the many items that caught our attention this week was the award of a Canadian stamp to short story master Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. The stamp was released on Monro’s birthday, July 10.
Beth Palmer, University of Surrey October, 2013 The announcement of Alice Munro as 2013’s winner of the Nobel Prize for literature marks the high point in the 82-year old writer’s long career, but also a significant recognition for the form with which she
JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs July 10, 2015. With a deal on Iran’s nuclear program in the offing, hardline opponents in Washington and Tehran are sharpening their teeth and honing their claws to a razor’s edge. In both capitals, the deal — nearly 20
BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS July 2015 He had made a big splash when he played the role of the troubled wedding singer Johnny Fontane in the movie The Godfather. But Al Martino had no particular desire to do another film when he came
There is no shortage of villains in this Greek tragedy, writes Jonathan Manthorpe, as Greece and Europe brace themselves for the Greek referendum on Sunday. “It hasn’t helped matters that the advent of the euro has been a huge boon for