Iraq: the conquerors return.
It has been little over seven months since the British army began their slow and ignominious retreat from Iraq. In September 2007 the bagpipes played with all the expected pomp and ceremony as the union flag was lowered over the military bases of Basra to be replaced by the...

Complexity and contradiction in Canadian public sculpture: the case of Walter Allward (1).
[The Great War] was a war of mass death in which massed men were fed for 1500 days to massed fire power so that more than 6000 corpses could be processed each day without letup. When it was over, 10,000,000 soldiers and civilians had been killed and mass death...

Humanitarian Groups Celebrate Crucial Funding for War-Torn Congo.
World Vision Thanks Congress; Encourages New Congo Democracy to Manage Resources WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- More than a dozen humanitarian, faith- based and human rights organizations celebrated this weekend as the Senate unanimously passed a bill that provides desperately-needed funding to war- ravaged Democratic Republic of...

A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era.
A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era, by Matthew Connelly. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xviii + 400 pages. $26.00, paperback. [A different version of this article was published in the March 27, 2004, issue of...

The question of British influence on U.S. tactical air power in World War II.
What was the British influence on U.S. theory and practice for tactical air power in World War II? Much ink has been spilt tracing the influences upon strategic bombing; less attention has focused upon tactical air power. Insofar as this was considered, the original conventional wisdom maintained several tenets....

Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat.
Waging Modern War:. Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat. By General Wesley K. Clark. New York: Public Affairs, 2001. Photographs. Index. Pp. xvii, 479. $18 paperback. ISBN: 1-58648-139-8; and Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empire. By General Wesley K. Clark. New York: Public Affairs, 2003....

Scenes of hope and horror.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the following pages we present three extraordinary observations by Canadians abroad. The primary focus is Africa, although Don Cayo's travels took him to Cambodia and Poland as well as Rwanda. Robert Cohen tells the most hopeful of the three stories. His expertise...

Ending the war on terrorism one terrorist at a time: a noncriminal detention model for holding and releasing Guantanamo Bay detainees.
I. DETENTION AT GUANTANAMO: WHO, WHY, AND IN WHAT CONDITIONS? A. Al Qaeda B. The United States's Response to the Attacks C. Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta II. CRIMINAL LAW VERSUS THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT A. Different Focuses and Purposes 1. Focus 2. Purpose of Confinement 3. Length...

Charming Shoppes, Inc. and Fashion Bug Appoint Kady Dalrymple as Sr. Vice President, Design and Product Development.
BENSALEM, Pa., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Charming Shoppes, Inc. and Fashion Bug today announced that Kady Dalrymple has been appointed Sr. Vice President, Design and Product Development, for the Company's Fashion Bug brand, effective immediately. Kady is a seasoned fashion apparel executive who brings three decades of...

Gandhi vs. terrorism.
Immediately after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the idea of taking a nonviolent stance in response to terrorism would have been dismissed out of hand. But now, after the invasion and occupation of two Muslim countries by the U.S. military, the...