Black power bought and sold
The News Review:
- Black power bought and sold
- King’s dream fulfilled in Condoleezza Rice?
- Celebrating a century of tennis
- Jeanette Fitzsimons: “Picnic for the Planet 2005”
- Action now can help avoid the coming shortage of math and science…
Black power bought and sold
Times Online – Jan 17, 2005
We could recruit a local kid, develop him and if he’s any good he will be lured to a big club and we’ll get nothing. “Our club is far more ethical than others. All the players come from our academy and in that sense are home-grown. Other clubs have as many foreign players but they recruit them from all over the world. ” However, Beveren are now a revolving-door club, but it is a door through which only Guillou’s Ivory Coast men seem to pass. Denuit says that there is no sense of local identity left. Not just because of the foreigners on the pitch, but because the fans realise that none of them is likely to stick around.
King’s dream fulfilled in Condoleezza Rice?
Seattle Times – Jan 17, 2005
This was the Birmingham — “Bombingham” — where Rice grew up. The dynamiting of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which took the life of her friend Denise McNair, was the most-heinous act of a long reign of terror. That a national-security adviser and designated secretary of state in this age of global terrorism should be someone who survived what she has called “the home-grown terrorism of the 1960s” is striking and, in her view, fitting. She told the National Association of Black Journalists two summers ago that those who think the Iraqis are unready or uninterested in freedom are echoing the racist appraisal of blacks when she was growing up. “The view was wrong in 1963 in Birmingham, and it is wrong in 2003 in Baghdad,” she said. But others, as Columbia University law professor Patricia Williams wrote in The Nation in December, believe it is unseemly to invoke the memory of the martyred girls in the name of policies perceived as being at odds with the spirit of the movement amid which they died. “If it’s nice to see a black face in high places,” wrote Williams, “that pleasure is more than outweighed by Rice’s deployment as spokeswoman for an unprecedented policy of pre-emptive war — the public face of an undisciplined, frightened, chaotically managed yet supposedly liberatory force that thoughtlessly bombs mosques with unarmed civilians inside…
In his Letter From a Birmingham Jail, written in April 1963, King chided the “few middle-class Negroes who, because of a degree of academic and economic security and because in some ways they profit by segregation, have become insensitive to the problems of the masses. But Shuttlesworth does not fault John Rice, on whom he always felt he could count for behind-the-scenes counsel and support. For Denise McNair’s father, talking about Condoleezza Rice brings home what was gained and what he lost. “Denise was my only daughter at the time, and [she and Rice] were in the same kindergarten at the Presbyterian church where her daddy was pastor,” Chris McNair says from Birmingham. “She’d be 53 today. You do wonder what she would have been doing. She was always a leader.
Celebrating a century of tennis
The Age – Jan 17, 2005
It may lack Wimbledon’s tradition or the French Open’s style,but Australia’s Open is friendly to both players and fans. In allrespects but one – the lack of victories by Australians – thetournament has been a smashing success at its new home. The absence of a home-grown singles champion has becomesomething of a puzzle. Perhaps the courts’ much-debated syntheticsurface is like Kryptonite to local Supermen and women. Roy Emersonwon five titles in a row in the 1960s; Margaret Smith (later Court)went two better. But the last singles success was in 1978. Sincethen, there have been Australian winners in London and New York butnot Melbourne.
Jeanette Fitzsimons: “Picnic for the Planet 2005”
Scoop.co.nz – Scoop.co.nz (press release) – Jan 17, 2005
It’s also good to be back in Green heartland. Waiheke residents gave the Greens 21 percent.
Action now can help avoid the coming shortage of math and science…
WTN News – Jan 17, 2005
While children in other nations bone up on math and science, American students shy away from those courses for many reasons – starting in middle school. As the National Science Board warned last year, the United States must do a better job of growing its own math, science and engineering graduates. In the past, bright foreigners beat a path to our door and filled any gap produced by a lack of home-grown grads. That outside flow is threatened today because of new limits on the entry of highly educated foreigners and more intense global competition for their skills. Visas and visa applications for students, exchange visitors and highly skilled foreigners have dropped sharply since 2001. At the same time, many Asian and European nations have realized that science and technology are crucial to their economic growth. They are better prepared to offer their best and brightest educational opportunities, and careers, at home.