・・・Prisoners do matter when analyzing the severity of racial inequality in the U.S. Yet because they are out of sight and out of mind, it is easy to imagine that we are making far more racial progress than we actually are.・・・ http://ideas.time.com/2012/02/03/the-myth-of-desgregation/
・・・ A senior State Department official I spoke to pointed out that -- while in the case of Libya the Arab League had, in effect, authorized the West to act on its behalf -- in the case of Syria it has asked the council to endorse an Arab bid to resolve the problem. "That's important," he said, "and it's new." It may be possible to speak of an "Arab solution to an Arab problem" without a cynical smirk.
＜とりわけ、アラブ世界では、当該失敗国家の世論の動向を重視するようになったとさ。↓＞
The Arab League is not alone in its new spirit of activism: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), played a leading role in the campaign to depose Laurent Gbagbo, the president of Cote D'Ivoire, after he provoked a civil war rather than accept the results of an election he had lost. The heavy lifting in that operation was done by the U.N. and France; but, as in Libya, the regional body provided indispensable legitimacy for the international community. Sovereignty has begun to lose its magic even among the de-colonized nations which most zealously guard the principle. But Arab leaders also live in a new world. The Arab street has turned sharply against Assad; and the era when Arab leaders could afford to ignore public opinion is over. In that regard, the new tone of the Arab League is one of the early benefits of the Arab Spring.・・・ http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/03/the_cynics_at_the_gates?page=full
・・・Thomas Laqueur. Laqueur’s is the big name in the recent writing on the history of sex. He argued in 1991 that practically all the differences between past and present sex outlined above have their explanation in contemporary medical understandings of the body. Because doctors thought at first that female bodies were simply weaker versions of male bodies, says Laqueur, they also, for example, thought that women’s orgasms were essential for conception, hence the belief that women were ravenously lusty.・・・ http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/1292a564-4c04-11e1-98dd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1lNr670I7
人間は確固とした自分を持っているわけではなく、状況によって言動が左右される存在だとさ。↓
Most of us consider ourselves to be objective, consistent people who make decisions that reflect our core principles, no matter what the situation.・・・
＜そもそもなんで、異郷の人より同郷の人と結婚しがちなんだと考えて見ろとよ。↓＞
・・・people are more likely to marry someone who lives in the same neighborhood than someone from farther away.
＜女性の方が男性より攻撃的じゃないってのもウソだと。↓＞
And the idea that women are more nurturing and less aggressive by nature? An experiment that allowed women to anonymously blow their opponents away during video games showed that they were just as trigger-happy as the male participants. Our perceptions, both of ourselves and of the actions of others, are heavily influenced by context. ・・・ http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/situations-matter-understanding-how-context-transforms-your-world-b-y-sam-sommers/2011/12/02/gIQACH5qnQ_print.html
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・・・the distinction between conservatives and liberals is philosophical. Conservatives like Edmund Burke “have always seen society as a kind of inheritance we receive and are responsible for; we have obligations toward those who came before and to those who will come after, and these obligations take priority over our rights.” But liberals like John Stuart Mill “assume that societies are genuinely constructs of human freedom, that whatever we inherit from them, they can always be unmade or remade through free human action.”
Given this understanding, however,・・・in current America politics, everyone is a liberal・・・
＜現在の米国における保守派とリベラルの違いは、政治的権力の不平等な配分状態をどこまで、いかなる方法で平等なものへと改変するか・・例えば、有権者年齢の引き下げとか逆差別の是非・・の違いだというんだな。↓＞
But we also tolerate and even support various forms of inequality, which amount to different degrees of political power. Differences in wealth, education, job, gender, race and age all in fact correspond to differences in power. Hardly anyone thinks all of these differences are bad, but conservatives on the whole think we have gone far enough or even too far in eliminating them, while liberals think that we are still far short of a proper distribution of power.
＜それは、決して、小さな政府支持、対、大きな政府支持、などといったものではないとも。↓＞
Many claim that the liberal-conservative division is over the role of government, with liberals supporting government intervention and conservatives opposing it. But the real issue is not so much whether government should intervene as it is on which side it should intervene. For the most part conservatives are, for example, quite in favor of government’s regulating the behavior of labor unions and limiting the ability of consumers to sue businesses, whereas liberals are generally opposed to these sorts of government interference.
＜いずれにせよ、このところの歴史は、リベラルの勝利の歴史だった、というのが結論。↓＞
In an important sense, history is on the side of liberals. They can point to a continuing trend in the redistribution of power — favoring, for example, workers, women, minorities — that conservatives originally opposed but now generally join liberals in accepting. But there is no basis for assuming that any and all redistributions of power are appropriate (should we, for example, lower the voting age to 16 or even to 12?) or that a particular way of achieving a needed redistribution of power is sound (is reverse discrimination a good way of overcoming racial and gender inequalities?). To this extent, there may always be room for conservative critiques of liberal proposals.・・・ http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/liberty-equality-hostility/?ref=opinion
・・・More than half of those who identified as conservative Republicans said they reached climax almost every time they had sex, compared with just 40 percent of liberal Democrats.・・・
＜男性の方が女性より恋愛・結婚に関してロマンティストだとよ。そりゃそうだ。男性は理想主義者、女性は現実主義者なんだもんね。すぐ上の話について言えば、リベラル派は理想主義者だから、物理的セックスで自動的にオーガスムに達する、なんてことにはなりにくいってことだろうよ。↓＞
・・・when it comes to romance, men may fit the female stereotype more closely than their own.・・・
＜女性の方が相手とのセックスの相性にこだわるってさ。これも、男性は理想主義者だから、セックスでの相性を超越したものを恋愛・結婚に求めるってことだろうよ。↓＞
A full 50 percent of women say that “bad sex” would be a deal-breaker in a relationship, compared with just 44 percent of men. ・・・
＜男性は相手が他の条件を満たしておれば、この相手を愛していない場合でも結婚できるが、女性はなかなかそうはいかないってさ。愛する＝セックスの相性がいい、と考えれば、これも同じことだろね。↓＞
Thirty-one percent of men said they’d be willing to commit to somebody who “has everything they are looking for in a partner” but with whom they weren’t in love, and 21 percent said they’d commit to somebody they were not sexually attracted to. ・・・ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/02/republicans-have-more-orgasms-according-to-match-com-sex-survey.html
＜ΒΑΒΒΒクン（コラム#5271）、＞朝鮮日報はレベルの高い新聞社なのだろうが、英文の中身にある文章、
・・・he was told “go back to Africa,” called a “monkey,” “slave,” and a “broke a-- n----r by an Asian gas store owner, ・・・
この部分を伝えなくてはだめだろう。
伏字はas○ nig○er。
はっきり言って最悪としか言い様がない。ロス暴動を思い出してしまった。 http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E6%9A%B4%E5%8B%95
Testosterone can skew one’s judgement, creating the impression that decisions are best taken alone even in situations that call for collaboration, according to a study released yesterday.・・・
・・・oxytocin, promotes the urge to work side-by-side.・・・ http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2012/02/02/2003524506
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私の二冊の本の出版秘話（その１)
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太田述正コラム#2886（2008.11.1）
＜私の二冊の本の出版秘話（その１)＞（2012.2.2公開）
（このシリーズは、公開しません。）
１ 始めに
共著『属国の防衛革命』と単独著『実名告発 防衛省』は、それぞれ、兵頭二十八氏と（株）金曜日が私に注目してくれた...sakimono9992012-02-02T09:13:13+09:00
＜私の二冊の本の出版秘話（その１)＞（2012.2.2公開）
Britain, alone among European states, the navy was also a guarantor of national integrity. Politically unstable, with an apparently weak government and an undoubtedly weak army, Britain had no real defence apart from her navy.
（http://j2k.naver.com/j2k.php/japanese/www.answers.com/topic/navy）
１７００前：お昼近くに電話をかけてきていた光人社の牛嶋氏から電話あり。差別のところで、ロレンスの言葉が禁止用語だという。無難な言葉に言い換えてもらうことになった。
「作家のD.H.ローレンス（David Herbert Lawrence。1885～1930年。 http://mss.library.nottingham.ac.uk/dhl_biog_brief.html
（６月14日アクセス）
は、「病人、びっこ、かたわ（the sick, the halt, the maimed）」をみんなかっさらってきてぶち込む、クリスタル・パレス並に大きい死の収容所（lethal chamber）を作りたいものだ、と語っています。」（コラム#380）
を転載したくだりが、共著の私の担当部分にあります。
出版社の光人社から、どぎつい表現なので、「びっこ、かたわ」→「身障者」、「ぶち込む」→「収容する」に変更したいとの申し出があり、了承しました。
なお、もともとどうして’halt’を「びっこ」と訳したのか、今となっては思い出せないのですが、
THE LAME, THE HALT, THE BLIND. The World of Graham Greene http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110001127430/
といった本のタイトルもあるところを見ると、同じような文脈でよく使われる表現のようです。
IT用語でhaltというと「停止させる」という意味ですが、オンラインのgoo英和辞典によると「ためらいながら歩く［言う］」という訳が出てくることから、「びっこ」と私が訳したのではないかと思います。
言葉ってむつかしいものですね。
・・・There are estimated to be around 37 FSA・・・Free Syrian Army・・・ battalions（大隊） of which 17 to 23 are militarily active,・・・
＜この部隊への武器供給は、四囲の国境すべてを通じて行われている。↓＞
Some weapons are smuggled through Lebanon’s border with Syria, although the quantity is small and on an individual basis. Other weapons are brought across the border with Turkey, which FSA fighters can cross with relative ease.
・・・weapons are also crossing into Syria from Iraq on a “tribe to tribe” basis, meaning the Sunni tribes of Iraq’s Al-Anbar province supplying their brethren in eastern Syria.・・・the Kurds in northern Iraq are also dispatching armaments to the Kurds of northeast Syria although most of it is being stockpiled for now.
＜もちろん、シリア軍の武器も流れてきている。↓＞
Another valuable source of arms is coming from the regular Syrian Army itself・・・ http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/0130/Free-Syrian-Army-Better-tool-for-toppling-Syria-s-Assad-than-UN
医療体制等の整備により、米軍の死者/負傷者率がどんどん小さくなってきているようだ。↓
＜アフガニスタンでは８%。↓＞
・・・Last year, 415 American men and women died in Afghanistan, while 5,159 were wounded and survived.
That ratio — 12.4 survivors for every fatality — marked a record high over the past decade. In fact, the ratio has been growing almost every year since 2001. ・・・
＜第二次世界大戦の時は19%、ベトナム戦争の時は16%だた。↓＞
During the Vietnam War, that figure, the “case fatality rate,” was 16 percent. During World War II, it was 19 percent. ・・・ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/tending-to-war-casualties-and-getting-better-at-it/2012/01/29/gIQAQX9saQ_blog.html
・・・ on Wednesday, a surprisingly free election takes place in Wukan・・・in Guangdong Province（広東省）・・・, a coastal village of 15,000.・・・
Residents there took over the village for 10 days late last year because of official graft and the killing of a local man by police. They expelled party leaders and security forces from the village.
Instead of suppressing the protest, however, the province’s reform-minded party leader, Wang Yang, made a surprising concession. He allowed the chief rebel, Lin Zuluan, to assume power and arrange a popular vote. Wednesday’s election sets up a committee to supervise an election of village representatives. Volunteers have been going door-to-door to solicit votes.
“The public’s awareness of democracy, equality, and rights is constantly strengthening, and their corresponding demands are growing,” said deputy provincial party secretary Zhu Mingguo. He and his boss say they expect Wukan to be a template for elections throughout the province.・・・ http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2012/0131/China-s-real-rise-in-Wukan-s-village-election
・・・polygynous societies create large numbers of unmarried men, whose presence is correlated with increased rates of rape, theft, murder, and substance abuse. ・・・the problem with unmarried men appears to come primarily from their lack of investment in family life and in children. Young men without futures tend to engage in riskier behaviors because they have less to lose. And, too, they may engage in certain crimes to get wives—stealing to amass enough wealth to attract women, or kidnapping other men’s wives.・・・
・・・polygyny is less about sex than it is about power. Rich old guys with lots of wives win twice: They have more women to bear them babies and do household work, and they also gain an advantage over other men. After all, in such societies a young man in want of a wife cannot simply woo her. There is too much competition, and he probably has too little to offer. So he winds up having to do work for a more powerful, polygynous man, bringing him gifts and tributes, in hopes of someday being rewarded with one of that man’s many daughters.・・・
・・・historically, polygamy has proved to be yet another setup that screws the XX set. Because there are never enough of them to go around, they wind up being married off younger. Brothers and fathers, realizing how valuable their female relations are, tend to control them more. And, as one would expect, polygynous households foster jealousy and conflict among co-wives. ・・・
・・・the children of monogamous households tend to do better than those from polygynous households in the same communities. Why? Some scholars suspect that polygyny may discourage paternal investment. Men with lots of children and wives are spread too thin, and to make things worse, they’re compiling resources to attract their next wives instead of using it on their existing families.・・・ http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/01/the_problem_with_polygamy.html
鬱への抵抗力に人によって差があることを発見したってたって、トートロジーみたいな話だよな。↓
・・・A person who goes through experiences like that and does not get depressed has a measure of what in the psychiatric trade is known as "resilience".・・・ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16749565
・・・Conservatives tend to concentrate more on images considered to be negative, while liberals' eyes tend to linger on positive images・・・ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16770593
Cuban President Raul Castro has defended the one-party system in a speech at the conference of the ruling Communist Party.
Gen Castro said allowing other political parties would threaten Cuba's independence and the socialist system established by the 1959 revolution.
But he said it was necessary to promote more democracy and open debate within the Communist Party.
He also reaffirmed plans to limit political terms to 10 years. ・・・ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16782264
The Arab League said Saturday that it was suspending its observer mission in Syria amid escalating violence that has left scores dead in recent days.・・・
The 100 or so monitors will remain in Syria but won't make field visits to trouble spots・・・
・・・the Arab League is trying to win U.N. support for its political plan. The Security Council is expected to consider the matter this week.
＜しかし、ロシアは、シリアに係る経済制裁や体制変革を内容とする決議案の採択に反対している。↓＞
But Russia, which wields veto power on the U.N. Security Council, has said it will not support any resolution calling for sanctions against Syria or "regime change" in Damascus. ・・・ http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-syria-observers-20120129,0,4962508.story
反対しているのは、ロシアだけじゃなく、ブラジル、中共、インド、南アも。↓
・・・Russia, along with Brazil, China, India and South Africa, believe “it would be extremely dangerous if” the West continues to be “carried away by this regime-change idea,” he said.・・・
＜これについては、ロシア外交のプーチン化である、或いは、このところロシアは欧米にやられっぱなしだったので巻き返しを図っている、或いはまた、ロシアは米国等と違って軽々に同盟国を見放さないということをアピールしようとしている、といった分析がなされている。↓＞
Critics say Moscow’s tough line at the United Nations reflects what one senior council diplomat described as “the Putinization of Russian foreign policy,” on the eve of what many expect will be the return of Vladimir Putin to the presidency. Other analysts say Russia is trying to reassert its authority in the council following a period in which the United States and Europe prevailed in the handling of several major crises, engineering the downfall of former Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo and, more recently, of Moammar Gaddafi in Libya.・・・
The crisis in Syria also has provided Moscow with an opportunity to show it is a more reliable ally than Western powers, particularly the United States, which is seen by many in the region as having abandoned one of its closest allies, former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.・・・ http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russia-asserting-itself-against-west-this-time-over-syria-regime-change/2012/01/26/gIQARGjVYQ_print.html
・・・＜Concerning a＞ recent experiment (about which we have some ethical reservations) at the University of Chicago・・・＜r＞esearchers there took two rats who shared a cage and trapped one of them in a tube that could be opened only from the outside. The free rat usually tried to open the door, eventually succeeding. Even when the free rats could eat up all of a quantity of chocolate before freeing the trapped rat, they mostly preferred to free their cage-mate. The experimenters interpret their findings as demonstrating empathy in rats. But if that is the case, they have also demonstrated that individual rats vary, for only 23 of 30 rats freed their trapped companions.・・・
Are We Ready for a ‘Morality Pill’・・・＜suggested in＞ “A Clockwork Orange,”・・・ http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/are-we-ready-for-a-morality-pill/?pagemode=print
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WORLD PRESS FREEDOM INDEX 2012
Japan (22nd) coverage of the tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear accident gave rise to excessive restrictions and exposed the limits of the pluralism of the country’s press.
・・・on 28 July 1976, when the nondescript mining city of Tangshan in northern China was hit by an earthquake which measured 7.8 on the Richter scale and killed some 250,000 people.・・・
Already that year two major Chinese leaders, premier Zhou Enlai and senior marshal Zhu De, had died. And just two months later, on 9 September, Mao Zedong, the man who had led China for more than quarter of a century, himself went to meet his maker -- Marx, of course.・・・
＜その時、強姦、掠奪が広範に起こった。↓＞
There were many heroic tales of people rescuing each other. There were also numerous cases of rape and looting.・・・ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/27/the-death-of-mao-review
・・・What was unusual about Victoria was the speed with which she ate. Usually a banquet would last for hours, but she could put away seven courses in 30 minutes, says Gray.
"For many people eating with her was purgatory. Everyone was served after the Queen and when she had finished all the plates were cleared for the next course. If you were the last person served often you wouldn't get a chance to eat anything before your plate was taken. She also insisted on all the windows being open whatever the time of year because she got hot."・・・
＜正餐会のコックが足らなくなるとパリからコックをかき集めたという。↓＞
For her Diamond Jubilee banquet 24 chefs were brought over from Paris to help・・・
＜へたな冗談を言うと、彼女は、「面白くない」と切り捨てたんだって。↓＞
Victoria's famous line "we are not amused" was uttered when someone told her a joke at the dinner table, breaking strict rules, says Gray. Many of today's rules about manners were formalised in the Victorian era. ・・・
＜ヴィクトリアの治世中に、正餐会はバイキング方式から現在の方式に変わったんだとさ。↓＞
At start of Victoria's reign food would be placed on table and guests would serve themselves・・・
＜出されたアルコール飲料は、ワインとマデイラ。ただし、彼女はよくウィスキーを飲んだという。↓＞
Fine wine and Madeira would be served, but Victoria often had whisky with her meal・・・
＜16世紀のヘンリー８世の頃までは、まだフォークがなかったので、正餐会の時でも、ナイフと指を使って食べたとよ。↓＞
Henry ＜VIII＞ and his guests would have eaten with a knife and fingers, as forks hadn't been introduced.・・・ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16659349
ホロコーストの実行者はヒムラーであったと言っていいようだ。↓
・・・the crimes committed by the German police state in its various manifestations -- among them the SS, its intelligence operation the SD and its military arm the Waffen-SS -- were all Himmler’s crimes, because “he to all intents and purposes united in his own person all the instruments of violence belonging to the Nazi state.” ・・・
“Himmler was the complete opposite of a faceless functionary or bureaucrat, interchangeable with any other,” Longerich writes. “The position he built up over the years can instead be described as an extreme example of the almost total personalization of political power.”・・・ http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/2012/01/09/gIQAyexVEQ_print.html
オスのネズミは、超音波で、鳥のように歌ってメスを惹きつけるんだね。
一匹一匹、歌い方は微妙に異なり、メスはちゃんと聞き分けるんだって。↓
Male house mice sing like birds to serenade their mates, a study has found.
But don't expect to catch a performance in your kitchen - their high-pitched soprano voices are beyond the range of human hearing.・・・ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5h3plviCmHQs7QHwXSpeFtch-DoPA?docId=N0148061327581488708A
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・・・The US will cut almost 100,000 troops as part of its plans for a "smaller, leaner" military, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has announced.・・・
In five years, the Army will drop from a peak of 570,000 to 490,000, and the marines be cut by 20,000, to 182,000.・・・
＜特殊線部隊のための浮き基地（巨大バルジ船）をつくるってんだけど、揚陸強襲艦はどうするんだろ？↓＞
Mr Panetta said there would be funding for a floating base that would serve special operations forces as well as drone units.
This would consist of a giant barge that can transport special operations or other forces at quick notice, reducing demands on aircraft carriers.・・・ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16751973
・・・
1. Does Israel have the ability to cause severe damage to Iran’s nuclear sites and bring about a major delay in the Iranian nuclear project? And can the military and the Israeli people withstand the inevitable counterattack?
2. Does Israel have overt or tacit support, particularly from America, for carrying out an attack?
3. Have all other possibilities for the containment of Iran’s nuclear threat been exhausted, bringing Israel to the point of last resort? If so, is this the last opportunity for an attack?
For the first time since the Iranian nuclear threat emerged in the mid-1990s, at least some of Israel’s most powerful leaders believe that the response to all of these questions is yes.・・・
After speaking with many senior Israeli leaders and chiefs of the military and the intelligence, I have come to believe that Israel will indeed strike Iran in 2012. ・・・ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/magazine/will-israel-attack-iran.html?ref=world&pagewanted=print
カザフスタン、経済も政治も絶好調だってんだけど、本当のところはどうなんだろう。↓
・・・Kazakhstan's economy is the largest in Central Asia, and its growth rate, at 7 percent in 2010, is among the highest in the world. Thanks to a commitment to the rule of law and political stability, Kazakhstan has been a magnet for foreign investors・・・ http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/26/steady_strides?page=full
・・・The commitment of Indian politicians to maintaining artistic and intellectual freedom seemed to be becoming ever weaker. In the past few months, Joseph Lelyveld's distinguished book on Gandhi had been banned in the state of Gujerat, AK Ramanujan's great study of the Ramayana had been removed from the syllabus of Delhi university, and the country's most revered modern artist, MF Husain, had died in exile in Dubai after Hindu fundamentalists had hounded him out of the country with a rash of lawsuits and attacks on him and his work. In almost all cases, the politicians had encouraged the protesters rather than protecting the writers and artists, using draconian colonial legislation intended to stop religious riots to silence the creative voice.・・・
＜ラシュディの、例の本が発禁になってるのは、イラン、インド、パキスタン、それにパプアニューギニアなんだね。↓＞
・・・a petition was circulated which called for "the right of all artists and writers to freedom of expression", and urged "the government to reconsider the 23-year-old ban of the Satanic Verses", a ban which put India in the company of Iran, Pakistan and Papua New Guinea.・・・ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/26/salman-rushdie-jaipur-literary-festival
＜ロシアの武器が、EU加盟国として禁止されてるのに、キプロスの港経由でシリアに持ち込まれている。↓＞
A mysterious Russian cargo ship limped into the Cypriot port of Limassol, this month, forced to seek shelter from a violent storm.
Hidden on board the MS Chariot were four containers packed with 60 tonnes of ammunition for AK-47s and for rocket launchers. The shipment had come from Moscow's state arms company, Rosoboronexport; its shadowy purchaser was none other than the Syrian government.
Cyprus, an EU member since 2004, was supposed to seize the cargo. The weapons flagrantly breached the EU's strict embargo on military supplies to the Syrian regime, which since last year has been violently engaged in shooting and killing its own citizens and anti-regime protesters.
Instead, Cypriot officials allowed the ship to leave after receiving vague assurances it would alter its route. The captain refuelled, left and then set a brisk course for the Syrian port of Tartus, where he delivered his dubious cargo.
＜一昨年に米国でロシアスパイの一斉摘発が行われた時、首謀格の男がキプロスにいて捕まったけど、同国の裁判所は釈放してしまい、この男は逃亡した。↓＞
Critics say the murky episode is further evidence of Cyprus's unwillingness to displease -- and "embarrassing subservience" to -- Moscow. The case is reminiscent of when a Cypriot court in 2010 bailed Christopher Metsos -- the alleged leader of a bungling Russian spy ring exposed in the US that included the glamorous Anna Chapman. Metsos promptly escaped.・・・
＜キプロスの銀行預金の25%、外国からの投資の約３分の１はロシアから。↓＞
More than 25% of bank deposits and about one-third of foreign investments come from Russia.
＜ロシアの会社はキプロスでマネーロンダリングをやり放題。↓＞
Typically, Russian investors create "brass-plate" companies to take advantage of Cyprus's low 10% corporate tax rate. Many of these funds are reinvested back in Russia -- ¤1.4bn in 2008 -- avoiding Russian tax. ・・・
＜そもそも、現在のキプロスの大統領は共産党の党首であり、モスクワで教育され、ロシア語の達人。↓＞
Cyprus's president, Demetris Christofias, heads the communist Akel party. He was educated in Soviet Moscow and is a fluent Russian speaker.・・・
＜ただし、もともと英領だったこともあり、現在でも英国の軍事基地が２つある。↓＞
Britain's support for Turkey's EU accession, by contrast, makes it a more problematic ally, despite the presence on the island of two British military bases, at Akrotiri and Dhekelia.・・・ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/26/cyprus-russian-invasion
・・・For the 2010 list released in 2011, Reporters Without Borders placed the U.S. at 20, and Hungary at 23. Then a bunch of American cops harassed journalists at Occupy protests, and the Hungarian governmenttried to do away with the very principle of an independent press. Surely what happened in Hungary is worse than what happened here. ・・・
On this year’s newly released list, for instance, Reporters Without Borders put the United States at 47th in the world, a drop of 27 places.・・・ http://loyalopposition.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/usa-usa-were-no-47/?ref=opinion
・・・A deliberate marriage of East and West -- she had lived in Manhattan for many years -- it simultaneously embraced the gothic, the otherworldly, the dramatic and the unsettling and was suffused with a powerful, dark eroticism. Her work, whose outsize stylization dazzled some critics and discomforted others, was provocative in every possible sense of the word, and it was meant to be.・・・
＜彼女、昨年、ギリシャ系の男性と結婚したばかりだったんだね。↓＞
Ms. Ishioka is survived by her husband, Nicholas Soultanakis, whom she married last year・・・ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/design/eiko-ishioka-designer-dies-at-73.html?ref=world
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「・・・オサマ・ビンラディン容疑者を殺害した海軍の特殊部隊SEALS・・・は現地時間の25日早朝に、海賊とみられる武装グループの拠点を急襲。ソマリア人９人を殺害し、拘束されていたデンマークの地雷除去団体職員で米国人のジェシカ・ブキャナンさんと同僚のデンマーク人男性を助け出した。２人は昨年10月下旬、ソマリア北部で空港に向かう途中に誘拐されていた。・・・」 http://www.asahi.com/international/update/0126/TKY201201250831.html
＜米空軍機から目的地へ約２マイルのところで空挺降下し、夜の闇に隠れて歩いて急襲した。↓＞
・・・About a dozen SEALs parachuted from an Air Force Special Operations plane to a spot two miles from the compound where the hostages were being held, Pentagon officials said. The commandos walked through the darkness and surprised the captors・・・
＜出撃基地はジブチ。救出された人質もヘリで一旦ジブチに。↓＞
The rescued hostages were flown to a U.S. air base in nearby Djibouti.・・・
＜ソマリアの海賊は、海賊対策が進んで、海の上で人質を取りにくくなってきているので、陸の上で取るようになった。↓＞
With the U.S. and other governments beefing up patrols and seeking sea-going pirates, some have turned their focus to kidnapping foreigners for ransom on land.・・・ http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-forces-rescue-kidnapped-aid-workers-jessica-buchanan-and-poul-hagen-thisted-in-somalia/2012/01/25/gIQA7WopPQ_print.html
＜上記を裏付けるデータは以下の通り。↓＞
・・・while the number of attempted hijackings increased from 237 in 2011 to 219 in 2010, the number of hijackings that were actually successful among Somali pirates decreased from 49 in 2010 to 28 last year.・・・
Just over 800 crew members were taken hostage in 2011. It was in 2010 that this figure reached a four-year high of 1,181.・・・ http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2012/0125/Daring-special-forces-raid-shows-Somali-pirates-are-on-the-run
＜今回、海賊９名を殺害、３名を逮捕拉致した。↓＞
・・・nine people had been killed and three were "taken away".・・・
＜彼らを殺害すると決めてかかっていたわけではないが結果的にこうなった。↓＞
・・・the Seals had intended to capture the kidnappers, but, for reasons that have not been explained, nine were killed.・・・ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/25/us-commandos-swoop-on-somali-pirates
イギリスは、部族的であるところの、他の諸国を見下している。言語・歴史・地理の共有をアイデンティティとするなんて、とね。自らは、権利・自由・選挙で選ばれた政府、へのコミットメントという、市民生活の高い理念を抱く文明の共有をアイデンティティとする、というわけ。ボクがかねがねから指摘していることが公言されている！↓
Britain once looked down on the tribal divisions of other countries. It held up its own identity as that of a people united not just by language, history, and geography, but by high ideals of civic life・・・a shared civic life, rooted in a commitment to rights, freedom, and elected government, can be a powerful unifying force.
Those enduring ideals create a social glue. They challenge the ancient notions that a country must be monocultural or that “self-determination” is only for people of like race or ethnicity.・・・ http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2012/0125/Independence-for-Scotland-Nothing-brave-about-it
『ゴジラ』が米国の核兵器開発と使用を糾弾した映画であることを訴えたコラムだ。↓
・・・A young scientist (Akihiko Hirata) has created an “oxygen destroyer” that can kill Godzilla, but as he realizes the full scope and potential of his creation (which could destroy the oceans and spark a new global arms race) he does his best to hide the invention. Compelled into service, he insists on diving with the device and detonating it himself. But after watching Godzilla writhe in pain and all too aware that there are no other Oxygen Destroyers in existence, the scientist pulls a knife and committs suicide in the depths. It is a startling finale, stoking sympathy for the “enemy” and killing off the “hero,” designed to make audiences question the value of such destructive weapons. Honda seems to be asking: If the Japanese had access to a nuclear weapon, would they have also used it?
＜米国では、そのような箇所は全部削除され、米国人俳優達によって撮りなおされたシーンで代替された上で、公開されたんだって。↓＞
Heavily re-edited and repackaged in the United States years later as Godzilla, King of the Monsters, with a significant portion of the Japanese footage swapped out with new scenes starring Raymond Burr and an American cast, few western audiences ever got the chance to appreciate Honda’s provocative spin on the monster film.・・・ http://entertainment.time.com/2012/01/25/godzilla-the-great-new-criterion-release-celebrates-the-greatest-monster-movie/?iid=ent-main-lede
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