Statesman of eclecticism
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John Peel&#39;s dry, quintessentially English voice led me and millions of others into an esoteric world of music, full of imagination and adventure.
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The Nobel Peace Prize winner links the pursuit of peace with environmentalism and a shift in humanity&#39;s thinking. BY DOUG MELLGREN.
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When Edward Dusinberre read Philip Rothâs  novel âEverymanâ he was struck by what he perceived as its richly musical qualities.
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BBC radio deejay John Peelâs influence has travelled far and wide. RS MURTHI remembers those static-filled nights tuning in to the manâs offbeat programmes.
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âRiver: The Joni Letters,â by Herbie Hancock can be understood as a celebration of the academyâs more high-minded pop impulses.
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The Mahdi, an imam who happens to be Ahmadinejad's favorite, has become the object of frenzied and government-nurtured worship
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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IF the speculation is right that John Howard&#39;s fourth term will come to be seen as his &quot;Chinese period&quot;, the Prime Minister may seek inspiration from a man he may otherwise spurn emulating: Jacques Chirac.
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As this fascinating, insightful book makes clear, Anatole Broyard left a legacy of racial confusion and great autobiographical material, not necessarily in that order.
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Most politicians understand politics. Rather fewer understand power. PV Narasimha Rao was a master craftsman of power. He knew its first fundamental law.
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The accent betrays his days as a banker in New York. The subject of his opening comments-the possibilities on trade, South Asiaâs poor record on human development despite its rich human potential, etc sounds almost like Manmohan Singh.
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How the Illinois senator came to embrace religion in his life.
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Yugendran is able to bring out feelings and emotions in his compositions. What is lacking though, is variety, originality and individuality of style.
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Time magazine once called him &quot;the genius who gave voice to the common man in the 20th century,&quot; comparing him (not entirely unseriously) to Mao Zedong and Mohandas Gandhi in influence.
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Comment is free: Martin Kettle: The prime minister speaks eloquently on liberty, yet is so cautious about the tradition that is key to delivering it.
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A revolutionary who fought for spontaneity over correctness JULIA CHILD, 1912-2004
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No one could accuse management guru Don  Tapscott of being unambitious. The co-author of best-seller  "Wikinomics" wants to teach governments to harness the power of  the Internet to reinvent democracy.