Month: September 2011
September 25, 2011
We Are Not Alone
Aaron Copland, one of the great American composers of the past century, told the story of browsing in a bookshop one day, when he noticed a woman buying one of...
September 18, 2011
Transition?
“The decisive step toward democracy”, says Prof. Adam Przeworski, “is the devolution of power from a group of people to a set of rules”. The rules and principles on which...
September 11, 2011
RETRIBUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Luis Rubio One of my teachers, Roy Macridis, was fond of saying that public policy, in particular that which is relative to foreign policy, should be evaluated not for its...
September 11, 2011
Drugs Here and There
In the guise of Sherlock Holmes, many Mexicans ask, where is the narco-capo of the Potomac? The fact that the narcotics market in the U.S is such an important and...
September 04, 2011
Lousy Deadbeat Copper
The film Sarafina!, starring Whoopi Goldberg, takes place in the South Africa of the Apartheid. Whoopi plays a teacher who attempts to instill a sense of dignity and a spirit...