 G21 ASIA:
Fortuin's Challenge
HUW TURNER
 Gregory Fortuin has his hands full in the next few years. South African-born, he took up the post as New Zealand Race Relations Conciliator, in succession to Rajen Prasad , on May 1st, and has been in office as one of New Zealand's five new Human Rights Commissioners since May 16th.
A veteran of the struggle against South Africa's brutal apartheid regime, then subsequently appointed by Nelson Mandela as Honorary Consul to New Zealand, he is far too humble and wise to claim he knows everything there is to know about combating racism, but there is no doubt that his background and experience will come in handy when dealing with the 1300 complaints he can expect to receive annually here in New Zealand... More
MY GLASS HOUSE:
The Stranger in Town - 2
ROD AMIS
 LONDON, 13 June , 2001 - Now Felicity Ussher hates me. It's just as well, I suppose. We should never over-rate our heroes. I bring this up because I am listening to one of my heroes now, David Bowie, in Felicity's flat. She is off to the coast for a conference. That, too, is just as well. I could not believe she followed my advice. That is what put me off, I think. That she honestly acted like I had made an Olympian pronouncement worth heeding and acting upon. No one should listen to me. If I were any good at living I wouldn't hide behind The Writer... More
DAY ONE:
Korda & Dylan
KEVIN CAREY
Writing about your own provisional history -- it becomes less provisional over time -- is as inevitable a part of ageing as attending ever more funerals. Over time obituaries become less sepia.
The funeral I would have liked to go to recently was that of Alberto Korda, the Cuban photographer who took the iconic photograph of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, revolutionary show-man and martyr. Korda took up photography so that, in his own words, he could be closer to beautiful women but it was not long before he was moved by rural poverty and transferred his affections to the Castro revolution. His picture of Che was ignored by his own editor and was later picked up by a publisher just at the point when its subject died in Bolivia. It was soon de rigeur in the wall displays of bourgeois students all over the world. Korda made no money from the picture but, in a richly symbolic transaction, he sued a vodka manufacturer for using the picture and spent the proceeds to fund child health care... More
POWERSSOUND:
Too Much of a Slow Thing
BOB POWERS
Karrin Allyson has charmed music critics around the globe, as is attested on her Web site. Clive Davis, writing in the London Times, labeled this Kansas native "classy." Los Angeles Jazz Scene called her "a true original." The Los Angeles Times admired her "broad array of talents." Shirley Christian, writing in the New York Times described her as "a blonde Edith Piaf with swing and sunshine in her voice."
Allyson's new album "Ballads" (Concord Jazz Records) combines a great idea with excellent musicianship.... More
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Cool Britannia II
ROD AMIS
If you read about this British election from abroad, you would certainly have the impression that there are only two political parties in the UK, Labour and the Conservative (Tories,) just as foreigners are given the impression there are only two parties in the United States. Neither impression is true, of course. In fact, in this British election, just as in the 1997 election that swept the Tories out and Labour in, quite a bit had to do with the choices made by members and adherents of a third party, the Liberal Democrats.... More
THE NEXT EVENT
THE NOW EVENT |
RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT: : Because the party of Government changed in 1997, it might easily appear that that British Election was more of a landmark than the one which has just handed Labour a second term. The reality is otherwise. Prime Minister Blair came in four years ago with a message of continuity, matching - even surpassing - his predecessor Conservative administration's mean financial estimates for the two years after that Election. The irony is that Blair the crypto-conservative, was forced by public will to promise higher spending on schools, hospitals, the fight against crime and transportation infrastructure. The public has forced "New Labour" Blair into a more traditional policy.
The significance of this Election is that Britain is now set to re-join the European pack; its unhappy adventure with liberal economics and illiberal greed is over. Without changing position we will change direction; instead of talking to Europe with America behind us we will be talking to America with Europe behind us... "Blair's Landmark" KEVIN CAREY More
RDR 06.11.01: RON DIENER goes to the movies and comes out running scared. "'Pearl Harbor' Freakout"
RDR 06.04.01: The final installment of ROD AMIS' Bermuda Diary, "A Piece of the Rock"
RDR 05.31.01: KEVIN CAREY comments on international conferences and the ecological role of the USA. "Talking in Code"
VOX POPULI:  From Elizabeth English, Boulder, CO, USA:
SUBJECT: The Trouble With Men
Hi, Lloyd & Rod,
I've just read Lloyd's g21 letter to the editor about my short story. To explain the title, about which Lloyd commented negatively, may I suggest that it's not meant in the way it may at first seem. The common phrase: "the trouble with...(whatever)..." implies a generalization. In this case, it's from the girl's point of view, or, actually, the woman's, and refers to her trouble(s) with certain men in her life. The young man who kidnapped her and her male family members, as well as the community/society which would never allow her to return to her village after she'd been taken away, feeling that she'd been sullied & had no further value. ...More
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