Next Scheduled Update: 22 November, 2004
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DAY ONE: G21 Alumnus Emeritus KEVIN CAREY returns with his view of the recent changes experienced his cousins across The Pond. "Cant" NEW YORK STATE (Of Mind): BRAD BALFOUR celebrates the 400th edition by bringing us a very special "get." "G21 Interviews: CHRISTOPHER WALKEN" RADIOACTIVE: RAHEEM takes the rare assignment, goes off his regular beat, and comes back with some insights. "The Five Happinesses" GLOBAL*BEAT: MPUTHUMI NTABENI revisits Johannesbrug, the haunt of his youth. "Marks of Weakness" G21 AFRICA: X.N. IRAKI opens a special two-part analysis of the situation in his East African home. " Inequality in Kenya - Part 1 of 2" RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT: NGOZI RAZAK-SOYEBI follows the Africa tradition of praise. "In Tribute" AMERICAN DREAMS: H. SCOTT PROSTERMAN believes there are only a couple of options left: "Revolution or Secession" G21 POLL: Frequent contributor RON DIENER asks for YOUR input. He focuses on Canadians but invites others to pipe in, as well. "International Election Survey" RADIO FREE ARIZONA: DOUGLAS MC DANIEL spins the music as he sees it. "Jethro Tull in the Barrio" MY GLASS HOUSE: You don't have agree with what our Publisher has to say in his meta-blog creation but you have to admit he looks at the world as only a cosmopolitan can. ROD AMIS continues to morph his column. "The Magician's 400th Trick." COMING ATTRACTIONS! BACK ISSUES? CLICK & PLAY! Issue 396: THIEVES IN THE TEMPLE Issue 397: EAGLES DARE Issue 398: THE INVISIBLE BORDER Issue 399: WOLVES Issue401: THANKS FOR GIVING G21 TODAY! RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT ARCHIVES. MEMOIRS OF THE INFORMATION AGE ARCHIVES 
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KEVIN CAREY'S EXPECTATIONS OF AMERICANS:"On Friday 29th November 2004, Osama Bin Laden handed George W. Bush the White House for a second term, an irony which will be almost completely lost on a nation largely insensitive to its charm. One would have thought, however, that a nation so given to personal analysts and therapists would have understood the basic psychology of the situation; the one figure a terrorist cannot handle is a peace-maker because it undermines his vocation. So Bin Laden wanted a crude, dirty, irrational fighter to keep him in self justifying business for a few more years and that is what he has been handed. From the dawn of recorded time people have had to put up with crude and dirty politicians but at least the major protagonists in the Iliad possessed a degree of rationality which they deployed in appealing to their people. Bush, cunning rather than clever, was more in tune with America's irrationality than Kerry who could not resist evidence and its complexities. ..." READ MORE
BRAD BALFOUR SITS DOWN WITH CHRISTOPHER WALKEN:
"Academy Award winning actor Christopher Walken has made nearly 100 movies and garnered several generations of fans. From his beginnings as a damaged Vietnam vet in "The Deer Hunter" to his recent role in "The Stepford Wives" and "Catch Me if You Can," he has continued to portray quirky or insidious characters. In fact he's almost defined the role. In "Around the Bend" he offers an extended, detailed look at one such damaged life seeking redemption through a friend's death that he shares with his long estranged son and grandson.
This former song-and-dance man has also made several "Saturday Night Live" appearances and an MTV music video for Fatboy Slim that not only demonstrated his prowess as a hoofer but his versatility and ability to reach new audiences.
Throughout his career, with each part he has played -- large or small -- Walken has a had distinct take [unlike any actor in film today.] Though "Around the Bend" lacks a Hollywood-esque high concept storyline [it has a limited release that started in October,] Walken's performance is so powerful that it is already being bandied about as Oscar-worthy.
G21: A major website polled lots of women in their early 20s and you're a big sex symbol for girls that age.
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN: I just want to say that's okay. ... " READ MORE
KENYA ECONOMIST X.N. IRAKI OPENS HIS TWO PART SERIES:
"What do Mississippi and Kenya have in common? Not just black people -- who make up 36% of Mississippi's population -- but also casinos. In the last ten years, gambling has become Mississippi's leading industry with most casinos located along the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. At the same time Kenya has been accumulating her share of casinos. They can now be found in every corner of Nairobi and other cities.
The increased number of casinos may be one good indicator of the increase in inequality in both places. People gamble because either they have too much money or too little. Those who are rich may have nothing better to do with their money; the poor think the only way to become rich is to gamble. ... " READ MORE
MPUTHUMI NTABENI GOES BACK TO "JOZI":
"I owe the recovery of my identity to the intensity of my emotions.
Once seating on a park bench, thinking about ways of simplifying my life, wondering behind what cloud was my star hidden, I made the decision to go to the city of Port Elizabeth. Before me stood a construction van whose main office address was in Port Elizabeth. I thought Why not I give the 'windy city' (Port Elizabeth) a try? After all, it might not be called a 'friendly city'for nothing. I was hoping my luck would change there since my chips were down.
Port Elizabeth was the only city in our country I did not know in my youth. That felt criminal, since it was only four hundred kilometres away from my home and a major city of our province, the Eastern Cape.
The day was bright and hot with shimmering heat. It reminded me of the first day I went to Johannesburg for my tertiary education almost two decades ago. The air was humid and windless. The clouds kept throwing shadows on the ground an d I kept trying to identify the form they made as they fell. Just then a dishevelled man with a hollowed and haunted look blocked my view. He startled me a little with a facial expression of mounting disdain. ... " READ MORE
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