False Name Research Articles

Fashion media communication in Hong Kong

Though fashion is a significant global creative industry, it is still often regarded as wasteful and deceptive. Participant observation at a Hong Kong high fashion magazine, Stylistic (false name), was used to remap the relationships among the conflicting notions of fashion, attempting to determine which fashion theories best describe the contemporary fashion industry in Hong Kong. This paper discusses how Hong Kong's fashion media present luxury brands as fashionable and how editors, copywriters, designers, sales managers and photographers adapt those meanings. The observations are interpreted in terms of two schools of fashion theory and the exploitative and creative aspects of postmodern fashion are discussed.

Flush Times & Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson by Joshua D. Rothman (review)

Flush Times & Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson. By Joshua D. Rothman. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. Pp. 440. Cloth, $29. 95.)Reviewed by Richard BellIn his 1838 address to the Springfield Lyceum, Abraham Lincoln warned his audience of the perilous consequences of lawlessness in the rapidly expanding republic. Accounts of outrages committed by mobs, form the every-day news of the times, Lincoln lamented, before singling out recent riots in Mississippi and St. Louis:In the Mississippi case, they first commenced by hanging the regular gamblers; set of men, certainly not following for livelihood, very useful, or very honest occupation; but one which, so far from being forbidden by the laws, was actually licensed by an act of the Legislature, passed but single year before. Next, negroes, suspected of conspiring to raise an insurrection, were caught up and hanged in all parts of the State: then, white men, supposed to be leagued with the negroes. Thus went on this process of hanging,. till, dead men were seen literally dangling from the boughs of trees upon every road side; and in numbers almost sufficient, to rival the native Spanish moss of the country, as drapery of the forest.1To Lincoln, the events in Mississippi were the dangerous in example of broader phenomenon: the trampling of the rule of law on the fringes of American empire. To Joshua D. Rothman, this plague of violence in the Cotton Kingdom represents something more: the anxieties attending the birth of new society in the Deep South, founding built on slave labor and on speculation, on hustle and on confidence, on avarice and on insecurity.By 1835, Mississippi was flush. Possessing some of the most fertile soil on the continent, newly cleared of Choctaw Indians, and filling quickly with white settlers and many more enslaved black migrants, the state was booming. Cotton production spurred massive investment and a rampant culture of speculation there. Men accumulated'paper fortunes' (7). Indeed, Rothman argues, much of this overnight affluence was projection, a series of bookkeeping fictions (8) that required careful elaboration and maintenance.Among the company of fast-talking lawyers, hustlers, and confidence men setting up shop in Mississippi was Virgil Stewart. The protagonist in Rothman's account of social and cultural upheaval on the leading edge of the market revolution, Stewart was protean figure, ever-ready with tall tale or an alias as the situation required. Red-haired and of Scotch-Irish ancestry, Stewart arrived in Mississippi around 1831 in hopes of taking share of the spoils from the Choctaw Cession, only to find the land auction rigged to favor the state's nascent elites. Stewart had to settle for just 40 acres, hardly enough to transform himself into gentleman farmer and plantation master. Disappointed and disillusioned, he took to doing favors and running errands for better-established older men, ingratiating himself.One such errand in January 1834 found Stewart hot on the trail of John Murrell, Virginia transplant and sometime horse thief, who had apparently stolen slaves from local plantation. Giving false name, Stewart won Murrell's confidence and gathered enough incriminating information to see to it that Murrell was arrested and tried. Enamored of his own achievement and eager to impress his fellow settlers, Stewart soon took to bragging about their time together, exaggerating Murrell's villainy and boasting of his own moral principle and derring-do in sensational tell-all pamphlet. …

Five Days of Magic at Asia's Camp for Burn Patients in Taiwan

Five Days of Magic at Asia's Camp for Burn Patients in Taiwan

Sobre la datación de la novela de Caritón: la figura de Demetrio el Cínico, lo contrario del verdadero filósofo

This article aims to demonstrate the character of the pirate Theron, whose false name, Demetrius, in the novel is a philosopher’s name too, contains a satire against Demetrius the Cynic; by considering the whole account, I infer from it the novel has been composed in the reign of Trajanus.

La conceptualización de lo "queer" en ¡A mi la legión! Relecturas de la filmografia franquista

New research methods, as well as revision of certain streams currently facilitate reinterpretation and rereading of hidden messages and agendas in a specific political or social context. This occurs with presence of queerness in films, given that any hint of minority or deviant sexuality was ignored and passed over. This happened with films in general, since the establishment of moral codes in Hollywood, but in Spain these patterns of behavior were stronger because with mandatory dubbing any hint of difference was hid. But sometimes in order to fly certain values flag as patriotism or virility, the opposite occured. This is the case of the film iA mi la legion! (1942, Juan de Orduna), in which one of the protagonists, Prince of a central European throne, knows his best friend after volunteering to join with false name into the Legion. He gives up throne and join into the Legion again, after the military coup d'etat of July 18, 1936, to support the subversive forces. That's the way a film that defends the values of virility and machismo, offers another reading in their deep structure, which we can discern in this article.

Os escritos autobiográficos de Josef Mengele

O artigo analisa textos autobiográficos que Josef Mengele escreveu durante os anos em que passou escondido em vários lugares no Estado de São Paulo. O material de cerca de 500 páginas datilografadas é inédito e trata dos primeiros anos da infância, o estudo de medicina nos anos 1930, a fase em que trabalhou sob nome falso como camponês na Bavária durante os primeiros anos do pós-guerra, assim como o início da fuga da Alemanha, mas não há referências aos anos nos quais Mengele realizou seus experimentos brutais com seres humanos no campo de concentração Auschwitz. Contudo, os textos, ligeiramente ficcionalizados, transmitem uma impressão dessa pessoa vaidosa que manteve suas posições políticas sem remorsos e que, ao que parece, até quis convencer seu filho - para o qual provavelmente os textos foram escritos -, por meio de sua narrativa impregnada de ideologia. Em certos trechos, porém, surge, de forma velada e perversa, a consciência dos seus atos desumanos, apresentando o próprio perpetrador no papel da vítima.

False-name manipulations in weighted voting games

Weighted voting is a classic model of cooperation among agents in decision-making domains. In such games, each player has a weight, and a coalition of players wins the game if its total weight meet...

The Networked Diaspora: Bulgarian Migrants on Facebook

The Networked Diaspora: Bulgarian Migrants on Facebook

Outsourcing of employers' responsibilities in the false name of flexibility

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to report on an in‐depth study of “pay‐rolling” agencies. Pay‐rolling agencies are a particular form of employment intermediaries through which employers attempt to bypass statutory obligations concerning workers' benefit entitlements and trade union rights, simply by paying workers through an agency. The paper was prompted by the growing amount of anecdotal evidence suggesting proliferation of pay‐rolling agency systems in Pakistan.Design/methodology/approachThe paper involved a total of 97 interviews were undertaken in six case studies across three industrial sectors with employees, employers, agency and union officials and industry specialists.FindingsFindings revealed sufficient evidence on the use of pay‐rolling agencies. The results confirmed the anecdotal evidence that some employment agencies are not truly genuine. The evidence suggested that there is a growing trend for agencies to be simply a sham arrangement, refuting the notion that temporary agency work has only been a natural and inevitable response to changes in the economy.Originality/valueThe paper furthers the understanding of the motives and characteristics of agency employment beyond the conventional model of genuine agency work.

Evolving Technology Creates New Legal Issues

Evolving Technology Creates New Legal Issues

The Parable of a Village in Decline: Duncan Campbell Scott’s In the Village of Viger and the Politics of Community

In against the of community, Miranda Joseph argues that the of [c]ommunity is almost always invoked as an unequivocal good, an indicator of high quality of life, life of understanding, caring, selflessness, belonging.... [It] has connoted cherished ideals of cooperation, equality, and communion (xxxiii). As Joseph also observes, however, the of identity politics of the 1980s and 1990s critiqued the underpinnings of national and other incarnations of community; it lay bare the real racism, sexism, and violence that were simultaneously perpetuated and obscured by affirmative attitudes about various communities and their peculiar manifestations. Yet, as she notes, in spite of the critical trajectory that denounced the enveloping notions of community, a celebratory discourse around it relentlessly returns (viii). In attempting to address the logic of its persistence, she suggests that capitalism is often complicit: Capitalism and, more generally, modernity depend on and generate the of to legitimate social hierarchies. [...] While identity is often named as the bond among members, it is false name in that participants are not identical and many of those to whom an identity is attributed do not participate in activities. I argue that is constituted not by identity but rather through practices of production and consumption. (viii) Such idealization about utopian state of relatedness averts the penetrating gaze that would expose real inequities. More than cursory glance would reveal that communal subjectivity is not necessarily founded in the human caring and understanding that others habitually ascribe to it but, rather, in those practices of consumption. Indebted to Raymond Williams's The Country and the City and his discussions of romantic anti-urbanism, Joseph shows how the romance of community is often determined, even driven, by these nostalgic impulses: that is, the idealization of country life, (dis)located temporally from present moment of discontent and geographically from heavily industrialized city-centre. is thus invoked as model of positive interaction, from which tenuous ethical values are generated and are held in opposition to the economic pursuits generated by modernity. So Joseph asserts: [T]he of positions as the defining other of modernity, of capitalism. This includes Romantic narrative of as prior in time to society, locating as long-lost past for which we yearn nostalgically from our current fallen state of alienation, bureaucratization, rationality. It distinguishes from society spatially, as local, involving face-to-face relations, where capital is global and faceless; is all about boundaries between us and them, boundaries that are naturalized through reference to place or race or culture or identity, while capital would seem to denature, crossing all borders and making everything, everyone, equivalent. (1) Community is thus endowed with sense of nostalgia and alleged to be resistant to, rather than complicit with, capitalism. Conversely, the latter is characterized as destructive entity that disables genuine interaction and undermines identity. The nostalgia for community, which Joseph sees as characteristic of critical thought, also marks some of the literary criticism of Duncan Campbell Scott's In the Village of Viger. Recent criticism determines the book to be an achievement for its sophisticated, complex, and realistic rendering of this small village located in Quebec (see, for example, New 47). The criticism more contemporary to the collection's initial date of publication, however, valued its pastoral elements and regarded the depicted therein as being eroded by the compounded influences of the city, modernity, and industrialization. …

A REASSURING MECHANISM DESIGN FOR TRADERS IN ELECTRONIC GROUP BUYING

Group buying is seen as an effective form of electronic commerce and a promising field for applying agent technologies. In current volume discount mechanisms, items are not allocated efficiently to buyers. Namely, social surplus is not maximum in existing volume discount schemes. To solve this problem, we propose a volume discount mechanism based on the seller's reservation price and the payment adjustment value. First, a seller registers his/her items with the evaluation value functions. The seller's evaluation value is sealed and each buyer bids his/her evaluation value as sealed bid. After the deadline, the mechanism determines the allocation of bundles of items. A tentative price is decided and the payment adjustment value is calculated. Finally, the payment amount is calculated. Our mechanism has some key advantages. First, the mechanism is Pareto efficient. Second, our mechanism is a strategy-proof mechanism, that is, it has the incentive compatibility. Third, our mechanism provides individual rationality. Fourth, our mechanism is made based on the volume discount system where the seller can give a signal indicating a discount for buyers. Finally, our mechanism weakens the influence of false name bids.

Kleist: Eine Biographie by Gerhard Schulz , Jens Bisky (review)

240 Reviews Kleist:Eine Biographie.By GERHARD SCHULZ.Munich: Beck. 2007. 6o8 pp. C26.90. ISBN 978-3-406-56487-1. Kleist:EineBiographie.By JENS BISKY.Berlin:Rowohlt. 2007. 528 pp. e22.90. ISBN 978-3-87134-515-9. HeinrichvonKleist,the mostmodernofall classicauthors, hashadhardly anyat tention from biographers inrecent decades.Theopposite mighthavebeenexpected given hisuninterrupted popularity amongtheatregoers and readers. To a far greater extent than Lessing, Goethe,orSchiller, Kleist was on anexistential quest. He didnot writetolive, butlivedto write,'weilichesnichtlassen kann'. Not until Kafka would anyotherauthorsoundsopossessedagain.Puzzlesabout theinexpressible 'IT and theinnermost coreofbeingarehisbreadandbutter. Hisworksdo notpermit clear answers ordistancefrom thetext. His complex, difficult life, amarkedcontrast with hisdisciplined oeuvre, readslikeamodernnovel. AKleistbiography isaconsiderable challenge; JensBisky and Gerhard Schulz have now taken itup at the same time. Both books arebeautifully written, and they havemore incommonthantheir identical titles. Thewealthof information they present and their attention tolesser knowndetailsare further similarities. Both authors have resisted thetemptation, prevalent inresearch onKleist,todressconjecture as factfor wantof sources. Life isharderherewithKleist than with other GermanKlassiker. Thebodyof source materialiscomparatively sparseandpatchy: hiscorrespondence, for example, spans nineteenyears(1793-181i) with only twohundredand forty letters and twenty replies, and by and large it is addressed only to familymembers and a handful of friends. Thereareno extant diariesor Ideenmagazine. Crypticallusionsand quo tationsturnthebiographerintoa literary detective. Kleist's letters, a fascinating read in themselves, are also the key to his life and works. They reveal intimate facts, their language is intoxicating, and theyare an education invisual observation. Theycontainalmostall thebasicmotifsof theliterary works.Schulz,indeed, asks whether these lettersare awork of fictionwith Kleist as its sole hero-a question as pertinent as it is shrewd. The letters are attempts to express Kleist's unfathomable inner being,orposed charades, orevenexercisesinthought that he sethimself and hisfiancee WilhelminevonZenge. BiskyandSchulzoccasionally placedifferent emphases on thesparse materialin theletters. Biskyfillsina previously hazypicture ofKleist's militarycareer. He has more to say about his departure from the army as a second lieutenant, interpreting it as an inner rebellion against the Prussian armymachine that no fewer than fifty membersof theKleist family were servingin 18o6.Afterhis resignation, Kleist threw himselfintoa tremendous pursuit ofknowledge, happiness, and intellectual sovereignty. Biskyattributes this decisively tothe popularphilosophy ofthe Enlight enment, and inparticulartoKleist'sunderrated teacher, Christian Ernst Wunsch. Yet this intellectual flightended with a lapse into Prussian discipline, as Kleist des perately proclaimed the idea of a 'lifeplan' to be pursued in isolation and by force. Schulz does not ignore all this by anymeans, but his strength lies in interpreting Kleist's early lettersas a literaryevent between factand fiction.He speaks of a 'topo MLR, 104.1, 2009 241 graphical philosophy' thatturns reality into'reveries'. Kleist'sletters onhis mysteri ous journey to Wurzburgin18oobearparticular testimony tohisvividimagination. He travelled under a false name, and the purpose of his journey is still a mystery. Was he treated for phimosis, ordidhevisitamesmerist for psychological problems? Was heworking for theFreemasons, or involved inmilitary or industrial espionage? The twobiographers agreeentirely that Kleist's struggle fortruth was at the centre ofhis life and thought. The root ofthisstruggle isinthecrisisletters ofspring 18o1, whicharedominated byhis 'doubts' andhisdespairatbeing 'unabletofind truth herebelow'andunabletodecide 'obdas,waswir Wahrheitnennen, wahrhaft Wahrheitist, oderob esunsnurso scheint'; he felt'inward disgust'towards books, knowledge, andhis fellow men. This 'Rendezvous mitdemNichts',asBiskycalls it, alsodrives almostall the characters ofKleist'sstories andcrime dramas, whohaveto solve problems ofnear-infinite complication. In thesetexts, datafrom observations, cross-examinations, dreams, andhallucinations arepressedtogether intoa complex tangle ofperspectives, unknowninliterature before Kleist.This is what makesKleist so fascinating. Kleist was notalone withsuchscepticism aroundi8oo, intheageofearly nihilism andofKant'scritique ofknowledge. His famous observation that we cannotknow whether what we see is the truth or an illusion-'Wenn alle Menschen statt der Augen gruineGlaser hatten . . .'-was not an original thought, as Bisky proves by demonstrating thesources onwhichhedrew. Kleisthimself invited conjecture when he spokeof the'newso-called Kantianphilosophy', a formula recently showntobe a contemporary synonym forthe philosophy ofFichte. None theless,thesearchfor suchsourcesand analogiesisof largely academic interest and a distraction from thecentralissue:thecollapseofKleist'strust inthe worldand its meaningfor his literary works. In amere tenyears Kleist produced eight dramas and the same number of stories. Theyareunparalleled; itishard toargue withBisky'sclaimthat Penthesilea is 'das grof3te Werkderdeutschen Literatur nebenFaustundWallenstein'. Bisky'streatment of thedramas(including theshocking Herrmannsschlacht) setstheminthecontext ofcontemporary stage history and incloseproximity toSchiller, togoodeffect. There islessverveinhis interpretation of theproseworks,but thisisbiography, after all, notliterary criticism. Schulz'sgraspofthe genreisno less...

Cervantine Curiosity and Impertinence in Leonor de la Cueva's La firmeza en la ausencia

CERVANTINE CURIOSITY AND IMPERTINENCE IN LEONOR DE LA CUEVA’S LA FIRMEZA EN LA AUSENCIA JONATHAN ELLIS AT the end of the interpolated story El curioso impertinente that forms part of the Quixote, Cervantes included an odd passage in which the Cura, who has been reading the story to an audience, offers his judgment on the quality of the piece, declaring “algo tiene del imposible” (630) because it involves a man and wife. He suggests that the story would have been better had it dealt with “un galán y una dama,” lovers, rather than a married couple.1 Not only does this comment provide a critique by Cervantes as to the verisimilitude of his own story, it also directly suggests the possibility of reworking certain elements of the story in order to present in a different manner this type of plot dealing with this type of love triangle. Góngora did just that in his Las firmezas de Isabela,2 as did Guillén de Castro in his own El curioso impertinente,3 in which he preserved the title and character names of the Cervantine orig1 John G. Weiger has noted that this objection seems based more on a moral concern for the importance of the marriage sacrament rather than a desire for verisimilitude. The curate appears perfectly willing to accept as normal the testing of a woman’s virtue; it simply should not occur within the confines of marriage (“Curious Pertinence” 261-62). 2 In this play, a young man named Lelio is betrothed to Isabela, having never met her. In order to test her faithfulness and virtue, he decides to meet her and tempt her under the false guise and name of Camilo. As Góngora has constructed the plot, then, the curioso impertinente and the rival are the same man, one of the changes that allow for a happy ending not possible in Cervantes’ tale. See María Cristina Quintero for an analysis of Góngora’s use of Cervantine plot elements in his comedia. 3 This is one of three comedias in which Guillén de Castro paid tribute to Cervantes, the other two being La fuerza de la sangre and Don Quixote de la Mancha. Weiger has examined how Guillén de Castro “accommodated a Cervantine tale to the formula of the Lopean comedia nueva” (“Monstruo” 43). See also the study of Christiane Faliu-Lacourt. 35 inal, but made substantial changes in the plot, adapted for comedia audiences . Given the precedence for this type of heuristic imitation, as well as the tremendous popularity of the Quixote, it is not surprising that the story would also capture the imagination of one of the female comedia authors of the period. In La firmeza en la ausencia, Leonor de la Cueva reworks important elements of the Cervantes tale in order to invert the negative moral examples of the original and highlight the firmeza of her protagonist, Armesinda, providing a stark contrast to the inconstancy of Cervantes’ Camila. This inversion can also be seen in Cueva’s treatment of masculine friendship, creating a distinctive, positive, vision of this type of tale. On the surface, La firmeza en la ausencia appears to be another of the virtue under siege plots that were common enough in the Golden Age.4 The king of Naples, Filiberto, burns with desire for Armesinda, a lady of his court, but she is already in love with another man, Juan. So the king must remove Juan from the scene, and does so by sending him off to war (hence the ausencia of the title),5 and then he must somehow persuade Armesinda to betray her vows of eternal love for Juan, be unfaithful to him, dishonor herself, and respond to the king’s advances. In order to achieve this goal, the king enlists the aid of Juan’s friend Carlos , and orders him to break down her defenses with lies of Juan’s infidelity to her and marriage to another during his absence. The absence is a necessary part of the plot just as Anselmo, in El curioso impertinente, contrived a number of reasons to be absent from his home for extended periods of time...

The World of Contretemps in Romeo and Juliet

This essay aims to explore ways in which contretemps dominate(s) thematical climate of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in reference to Derrida's key idea of differance, an archi-concept designating a field of signification on basis of what he called, the becoming-time of and the becoming-space of time. For this purpose, discussion is divided into three parts. The first part argues that three examples of misdelivered or contaminated letters in play, namely Friar's letter to Romeo, Tybalt's written challenge against Romeo, and Capulet's invitation letter, may be read in Derridean context because they all illuminate how signifier never corresponds to (transcendental) signified in its creation of space of contretemps. In so doing it is suggested that space of contretemps structurally organizes tragic love between Romeo and Juliet. In addition to written sign, second part of this essay examines how and why speech is always already subject to contretemps as well. By looking at how Juliet's famous soliloquy in balcony scene inaugurates her forthcoming tragic death with Romeo, this part of essay demonstrates that speech as well as writing fails to be under control either by speaker or by writer. Juliet, a representative figure of logocentrism, sounds as if her pure interiority is very origin of truth from which Romeo's true identity, as opposed to his false or arbitrary name, comes. However, everything runs awry against her intended reason, resulting in her death with Romeo by chance. Then, how is this world of contretemps, or differance where everything is given over to chance possible? This is question that final part of this essay addresses. And it is proposed that answer may be found in appearance and intervention of third in relation between one and other, which permeates every comer of play. That is, from Mercutio to Friar Lawrence, almost every character in play takes a role of third that reconfigures condition of beings, thereby elevating possibilities of (mis)chances. Put another way, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a play about this third genus that both self and other must take as their only form of existence.

Cutting-edge Discussions of Management, Policy, and Program Issues in Emergency Care

Cutting-edge Discussions of Management, Policy, and Program Issues in Emergency Care

Scandal

Scandal Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (bio) The pall that has been cast on the academic discipline of Indian studies by the behavior and subsequent charges against the long-time professor of ethnic studies Ward Churchill, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is incalculable. One thing is obvious, Native scholars who have spent the last thirty years developing what they describe as "an empowerment epistemology" directed for and by indigenous populations have been smeared with the brush of Churchill's recently documented fraud. Because of the actions of a wayward "wannabe" and a complicit university faculty and administration, not very different from a hundred other administrations across the land, the inchoate structure called Indian studies has the potential to become the pariah of academic scholarly ambitions and intentions. Who is responsible? Churchill and the university that hired him some twenty years ago. To some observers of the academic scene in 1980 and 1990, ethnic studies seemed the answer to the inherent hegemony in American scholarship and research; thus, the "umbrella" paradigm gathered up the flotsam and jetsam of what was seen as the "diverse" populations of America, i.e., Latinos, African Americans, women, Asians, and American Indians, and an academic structure until then unknown outside of sociology was born. For those indigenous scholars who had nurtured for many prior decades the idea of an autonomous discipline called Native American studies, such "umbrella" thinking spelled doom, though, unfortunately, little was heard of their objections. Presently, we [End Page 85] are witnessing the results of universities hiring controversial speakers with national visibility, activists on their ways to becoming notorious public figures, instead of those who do the quiet, thoughtful, serious scholarship, teaching, and writing of academe. Just like the poor countries around the globe that have been the losers in the global trade-policy talks, Indian studies has been the loser in the academic dialogue of scholarly autonomy. In short, Native populations have been badly served by much of what goes on in the academic world. Native populations in America are not "ethnic" populations; they are not "minority" populations, neither immigrant nor tourist, nor "people of color." They are the indigenous peoples of this continent. They are landlords, with very special political and cultural status in the realm of American identity and citizenship. Since 1924, they have possessed dual citizenship, tribal and U.S., and are the only population that has not been required to deny their previous national citizenship in order to possess U.S. citizenship. They are known and documented as citizens by their tribal nations. Indians in academia, therefore, have never enthusiastically clamored for a placement in the paradigm called ethnic studies. The truth is, many native scholars have suggested that American Indian intellectual traditions have been directly and negatively affected by ethnic studies, which has a tendency to obliterate difference, particularly political difference. The investigative report of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder, released in May 2006, shows that Churchill extensively plagiarized the work of others, wrote articles under a false name in order to support his self-serving claims with "third party" sources, and engaged in a "pattern and consistent research stratagem to cloak extreme, unsupportable, propaganda-like claims of fact." The possibility of the dismissal of a tenured faculty member who is widely known to publicly profess unpopular ideas looms large because he has been unmasked as a plagiarist. From the point of view of Indian studies, there is another reason for dismissal, and that is Churchill's long-standing claim to American Indian citizenship. The "elephant in the room" ignored by the committee is that his claim to be an American Indian is also a fraud; it is "identity theft" plain and simple and therefore a crime. That he can provide no credible evidence for his claim to be an American Indian has been overlooked by the committee, yet that claim was used to win his professorship in the first place. He has been unmasked as a man who has desperately wanted to be an American Indian for most of his professional life, but is not. In some lexicons this can be called a deception, but in more academic instances...

Law enforcement challenges in hawala‐related investigations

Defines hawala, which in Arabic means “transfer”; what distinguishes it from other fund transfer methods is its informality, reliance on trust and networks, and lack of records. Describes how it can be used to finance terrorism and launder money, evade tax and so on. Discusses the many problems for law enforcement arising from the lack of records in hawala, or sometimes an excess of confusing records, and the mix of various businesses which tend to coexist with hawala transactions; also linguistic issues, cultural and legal or administrative differences between communities and countries, and “benami” accounts, which are false name or nominee accounts often accepted in ethnic groups that also engage in hawala. Concludes that the success of law enforcement efforts to solve cases depends on international cooperation, but that this is not always forthcoming; excessive zeal may sour working relationships, and it may not be easy even to know whether policies are working.

L'affaire Finaly au regard de la presse marseillaise

The author goes into three main dailies of Marseille : Le Provencal, a socialist paper, Le Meridional-La France de Marseille, of right-wing tendencies, La Marseillaise, communist. She looks into the number of articles, the chosen lay-out and the contents of these articles. Each one of these papers of course has its own way to deal with the case. The communist paper does not take much interest in it ; Le Provencal is in line with the republican and the secularist tendency ; the local impact of the affair has a great resonance in Le Meridional which defends tooth and nail the clergymen of Marseille who were imprisoned because the Finaly childred stayed, under a false name, in a catholic boarding-school, Notre-Dame de la Viste, in Marseille, before being illegally transferred to Bayonne. A few Jews of Marseille, who actively supported Jules Isaac and Rabi, endeavored to arouse meetings, but the Jews in Marseille as a whole seemed unconcerned. The turmoil collapsed as soon as the children were returned.

Respecting Patients' Rights in Manuscripts: Confidentiality, Informed Consent, and IRB Approval

Patients' rights for privacy and confidentiality extend to publications. This author describes how authors, reviewers, and editors can ensure patient confidentiality in manuscripts.