http://www.metafilter.com/tags/georgemason/rss tag posts with georgemason Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:28:45 -0800 Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:28:45 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/50393/By-George-and-other-puns <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/basketball/ncaa/wires/03/26/2060.ap.bkc.ncaa.upset.uconn.0536/">March Madness:</a> <a href="http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/mayhem/brackets/viewable_men">11th seeded</a> <a href="http://www.gmu.edu/">George Mason</a> upset UConn in the <a href="http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens">NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament</a> this afternoon, continuing their <a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/team?categoryId=71716">unexpected</a> <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/clubhouse?teamId=2244">streak</a> of <a href="http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/ncaatourneyupset.html">upsets</a>. Their wins <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-sp.steele26mar26,0,6185690.column?coll=bal-sports-columnists">validate</a> not only their <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/12/AR2006031201416.html">inclusion in the tournament</a>, but the rising <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/ncaatourney06/insider/columns/story?id=2366099">status</a> of <a href="http://midmajority.com/">mid-major</a> conferences. The most prominent <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/sports/articles/0323p2main0323.html">critic</a> of the inclusion of these smaller schools has been CBS analyst <a href="http://cbs.sportsline.com/cbssports/team/bpacker">Billy Packer</a>, who <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=2366077">verbally assaulted</a> the head of the <a href="http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/story/9183455">selection committee</a> on<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11814533/"> live TV</a> just <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/12/AR2006031201496.html">two weeks ago</a>, and has yet to <a href="http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/sports/colleges/14133498.htm">apologize</a> for his obvious error. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.50393 Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:28:45 -0800 NCAA basketball marchmadness packer littlepage cbs sports georgemason college midmajor media finalfour upset cinderella kyleg http://www.metafilter.com/33634/Iraq-Manchuria-Askari-StreetIts-The-History-News-Network <a href="http://hnn.us/articles/5121.html" title="By late 1938 the Japanese imperial armed forces had bogged down. They had been constantly treating the Chinese as a conquered people, underestimating the hatred that their brutal behavior had engendered. Now, they could neither win the war nor, for domestic political reasons, acknowledge having lost it. They could only go on winning battles, occupying coastal cities and their hinterlands, and setting up puppet governments with Japanese officers in the background, running the show. Hoping to break the stalemate, Tokyo spread the fighting to Southeast Asia, then escalated again by attacking Pearl Harbor. The road to diplomatic failure and calamity that Japan's leaders had embarked on in 1931 ended, fourteen years later in August 1945, with the unconditional surrender of a nation in ruins from American bombing.">From Nanjing 1937 to Fallujah 2004</a>; <a href="http://hnn.us/articles/1534.html" title="It is the almost forgotten interlude of Japan as an occupying power in Manchuria and later China, however, that poses the most intriguing analogy to the creation of a new American imperium today.">Is the U.S. Repeating the Mistakes of Japan in the 1930s?</a>; <a href="http://hnn.us/articles/5247.html" title="For a while now -- since the alliance of Shiite and Sunni insurgencies reminded me of the Nationalist-Communist United Front against Japan -- I've been thinking about the parallels between the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the Japanese militaristic imperialism in Manchuria. John Dower, much more distinguished than I, drew parallels between Iraq and Manchuria almost a year ago, but the situation has changed somewhat since then -- strengthening the analogy in my opinion -- and, without criticizing his analysis, our emphasis and conclusions differ. A brief history, then the parallels.">Attempting Analogy: Japanese Manchuria and Occupied Iraq</a> and <a href="http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/5449.html" title="I sent a link to my recent HNN article along to the scholars on the H-Japan and H-Asia lists, suggesting it as a change of pace from the Vietnam analogies. Reponses have been appreciative, but, and this is what makes the technology so much fun, someone knew something I didn't and shared it, for which I am thankful. Michael Penn of the University of Kitakyushu wrote, ''You may be interested to know that the analogy between Iraq and Japanese Manchuria is much older than you suspect. On September 27, 1932, the Tokyo Asahi Shinbun wrote an editorial entitled ''Iraku to Nichiman Kankei (Iraq and Japanese-Manchurian relations). The point they wanted to make was that Japan's activities in Manchuria were comparable to the British role in Iraq, and therefore Japan should not be criticized by the west.'''' ">Manchuria and Iraq, 1932 and 2004</a>: you can kiss that Vietnam analogy good bye--when historians talk history, they range farther afield. I &hearts; the <a href="http://hnn.us/" title="HNN Features Articles and Op Eds by Historians from Both the Left and the Right ">History News Network</a>! Here is food for thought at an all night, all you can eat smorgasbord--those who teach history are condemned to discuss it and we're all the better for it.<br><br>For example, Hala Fattah's <a href="http://hnn.us/blogs/24.html" title="Hala Fattah is an historian of pre-modern Iraq and an independent scholar living in Amman, Jordan. She is a graduate of UCLA, and the author of The Politics of Regional Trade in Iraq, Arabia and the Gulf , 1745-1900 (SUNY Press, 1997).">Askari Street</a> is my current favorite Iraqi weblog. She gives us the history of the Arab horse, the Pachachi family, the Shammar tribe and Kirkuk, and its place in Iraqi History and she has barely begun to write.<br> HNN: oh, it's an embarrassment of riches and a fount of endless fascination. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.33634 Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:47:09 -0800 japan history iraq war hnn georgemason y2karl