Country profile: St. Kitts and Nevis.
BRIMSTONE FORTRESS on the west coast of St Kitts is an imposing monument to the inter-imperial rivalries which once raged around the sugar-rich islands of the eastern Caribbean. Built in the seventeenth century to fend off attacks from French forces, this so-called `Gibraltar of the West Indies' was hewn...

Economic and political prospects for the British Atlantic Dependent Territories.
The post-colonial era has not yet arrived, for numerous places retain some form of colonial relationship with a distant state. The French administer nine inhabited overseas territories with a total population of about 1.75 million (Aldrich and Connell, 1992). Other dependent territories are British, though the UK, in contrast to...

Nevis: queen of the Leewards.
NEVIS: QUEEN OF THE LEEWARDS Draw a straight line from Rangoon through Timbuktu and into the Western Hemisphere, then another straight line from Halifax right into the Dragons Mouth west of Trinidad; at the intersection you'll find the West Indies island of Nevis. All 36 square miles of...

Caribbean Connections.
Caribbean Connections. Ed. by LORNA MILNE. (Forum for Modern Language Studies, special issue, 40.4) Oxford: Oxford University Press. October 2004. 12 [pounds sterling]. ISSN 0015-8518. The connections alluded to in the title of this special issue of FMLS are ostensibly those that emerge from the juxtaposition of...

Sensing cities; regenerating public life in Barcelona and Manchester.
9780415397995 Sensing cities; regenerating public life in Barcelona and Manchester. Degen, Monica Montserrat. Routledge 2008 225 pages $150.00 Hardcover Routledge studies in human geography HT178 Academics rarely think of...

Juanes and John Legend to Join Forces for a Special Performance on the 9th Annual Latin GRAMMY(R) Awards.
2008 LATIN RECORDING ACADEMY PERSON OF THE YEAR GLORIA ESTEFAN TO PERFORM WITH JOSE FELICIANO AND CARLOS SANTANA ANTONIO CARMONA, JEREMIAS, VICTOR MANUELLE, AND FERNANDO OTERO ALSO ADDED TO STELLAR LINE-UP FOR THE HOTTEST NIGHT IN LATIN MUSIC Adriana Fonseca, Andy Garcia, Pesado, Maria Elena...

St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus.
In 1506, at the age of 16, he was sent to serve Juan Velasquez, then treasurer of the kingdom of Castille, as a page. Here he got addicted to gambling and other vices. He became a soldier and distinguished himself by his chivalry, courage, and determination. In 1521, while...

M. P. Shiel and the love of pubescent girls: the other "love that dare not speak its name".
"The Love that dare not speak its name" ... is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man.... It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. There is nothing unnatural about it.... That it should be so, the world does...

Town and gown; Rowdy party besmirched laudable civic efforts.
COLUMN: In our opinion The arrests of several students from the College of the Holy Cross during out-of-control partying on Caro Street last weekend should not be permitted to obscure the very real and significant commitment of the college community to making Worcester a better place. It...