海天一色大家庭创新发展写真 瞧这“一家子”

<正>"海天一色"重张开业的那一天,照了一张"全家福"。在银灰色"海天一色"店牌的辉映下,董事长、总经理和600余名员工开心地笑着,让人看了着实喜欢。     

Legal Liberalism,Statutory Despotism and State Power in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa

This article is about the attempts by pre- and post-Union (1910) South African governments to create effective sedition laws, partly directly to curb specific political opponents, but also to license and focus state intelligence-gathering activities. Supreme Court judges' adherence to a rule-of-law formalism in a succession of court cases both hindered and encouraged these attempts. I am particularly interested in how the courts' imposition of more rigorous standards of performance in the production of evidence eventually exceeded the state's bureaucratic capability and undermined officials' confidence in the instrumental value of the rule of law, leading administrators to enact legislation to suppress their political adversaries without reference to the courts. The judges' stance in this history was not one of progressive or sudden capitulation to the lawmakers' and executive's will, as is sometimes argued, but notably consistent throughout.     

尽看春色漫野花

<正>迎春花黄杏花粉,桃花红艳梨花白,花是春天的诗句,花是春雨的锦囊,花是我们亮丽的心情,花期里有蜜的酿造、果实的睡梦……去吧,去山野里和     

A Look Back at the Dred Scott Decision

Thank you for inviting me to deliver the 2009 Annual Lecture of the Supreme Court Historical Society. I am a great admirer of the Society's commitment to preserving the history of the Supreme Court and to increasing the public's awareness of the Court's contributions to our nation's history.     

A Look Back at the Steel Seizure Case

During every national emergency, the system of checks and balances designed, as James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, to prevent a power grab by any of the three branches by giving each “the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others,” comes under great pressure. ¹ After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the public looked to the President to take extraordinary measures. Congress quickly moved to expand executive powers to meet the emergency, confirming the view of a leading textbook on the presidency that “it has become the dominant institution in a system designed for balanced government.” ²     

鸟瞰云海 奇景万千

<正>每次赴美探亲,总希望能买到靠窗的机票。因为乘机遨游九霄,如果有个靠窗的位置,俯瞰云海,既可欣赏奇云壮景,又能减少旅途的劳顿,这对长达13个小时的行程来说的确是一件赏心悦目的惬意事。当飞机穿云拨雾冲上蓝天之后,同机的人大多开始闭目养神休息,而我却愿在此时倚窗鸟瞰,欣赏机外云海的千变万化。飘渺的云朵像一个魔术师,变幻出各异的姿态,装点着整个天空。有时如雪山,银装素裹;有时像     

力行哲学的思想脉络

力行哲学是20世纪三四十年代中国的官方哲学。它的提出,适应着当时社会的某种政治需要,也和蒋介石的哲学思路密切相关。力行哲学从王(阳明)学及孙中山“知难行易”观念中借用了大量的现成概念和思想资源,同时,为适应其现实目标,蒋又对之进行了加工、改造,并由此引发了概念的混乱及哲学基本精神的冲突。力行哲学以“行”为中心,而“行”的概念本身就是复杂、含混的,“行”的落实也困难重重。当然。作为一种政治化的哲学思想,概念的清晰和统一并不是提出真正关注的问题;力行哲学的出现及其目标,和现实的政治要求息息相关。     

审视中美关系的一个视角

中美关系不是一对孤立的双边关系,而是东亚国际关系的一部分,两是互相影响的,论论述了近代早期、后近代时期、冷战时期和后冷战时期两的互动关系,对《望厦条约》、蒲安臣的合作政策和蒲安臣使团、门户开放政策进行了重新阐释。对在不同时期日本、苏联、朝鲜和越南对中美关系的影响进行了剖析。并对美国当前能否对中国实施遏制政策发表了自己的见解。     

从川军看黔军的发展

近年来,各类抗战研究都取得了丰硕的成果,但对于黔军的研究还是相对比较薄弱.与之相对的,川军的研究则更为深入,史料也更为翔实丰富,同时随着各种小说影视剧的传播,民众的认知度也更高.同样是西南军阀出身,也一起经历抗战,且都被戏称为"杂牌军",但也都用自己的血肉之躯捍卫了民族尊严.为何大众有"无川不成军"的川军印象,黔军却慢慢湮没在了时间的长河中,对于每一个用生命和鲜血庇护了自己国家的人,他们都应是值得我们尊重和铭记的英雄.     

A Fresh Look at the Egyptian Environment of the Pharaonic Period

Abstract

The article deals with the territorial history of the southern steppe areas of the Levant in the period between ca. 1050–750 BCE. In the early days of the Iron Age, until the mid-9^th century BCE, parts of them, were ruled by local desert entities: in the late Iron I a Moabite polity and in the early Iron IIA and the early years of the late Iron IIA the Tel Masos-Beer-Sheba-Negev Highlands Highlands entity. This situation changed in the later years of the Iron IIA as a result of Damascus' rise to hegemony in the Levant. In the second half of the 9^th century BCE Judah, under Damascene domination, expanded for the first time into the Beer-Sheba Valley. In the first half of the eighth century BCE, with the revival of Assyrian power in the days of Adad-nirari III, Damascene authority was replaced by north Israelite domination in the south.     

Frontiers of Disease: Human Desire and Environmental Realities in the Rearing Of Horses in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century South Africa

Abstract

Horses have played an important economic, military and cultural role in South African history. However, disease has always posed a threat to their survival. Horsesickness, a viral infection transmitted by midges from the genus culicoides, is endemic in much of the country but has historically assumed epizootic proportions in certain years. In the lowveld and Zululand nagana (trypanosomosis), spread by tsetse flies, has killed both horses and cattle and affected the distribution of human settlement and agricultural activities. In addition, much of South Africa is very arid, yet has rich floral taxa. Several plants, such as Senecio spp. are highly toxic to horses, but in times of drought and fodder shortages, equines are faced with the choice of starvation or potentially succumbing to toxicosis by eating poisonous weeds. This paper considers the environmental impact of these three types of horse diseases in South Africa and explores the scientific and ecological investigations undertaken since the late nineteenth century to try to control them. Research into horse diseases brought together the laboratory and the field and raised important questions about the part played by environmental factors, as opposed to just germs, in the distribution of livestock infections and the ability of farmers and scientists to tackle them effectively.