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[Review of] Kathleen Mullen Sands, cd. Circle of Motion: Arizona Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Literature

The subtitle of this collection raises a question: Is it wise to mix various genres and also authors from very different tribes and then to limit this mixture by the arbitrary geographical borders of a state

Zimmermann's Forest Formula, Infrared Divergences and the QCD Beta Function

We review Zimmermann's forest formula, which solves Bogoliubov's recursive $R$-operation for the subtraction of ultraviolet divergences in perturbative Quantum Field Theory. We further discuss a generalisation of the $R$-operation which subtracts besides ultraviolet also Euclidean infrared divergences. This generalisation, which goes under the name of the $R^*$-operation, can be used efficiently to compute renormalisation constants. We will discuss several results obtained by this method with focus on the QCD beta function at five loops as well as the application to hadronic Higgs boson decay rates at N${}^4$LO. This article summarizes a talk given at the Wolfhart Zimmermann Memorial Symposium.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures; based on a talk given at the Wolfhart Zimmermann Memorial Symposium on the 22nd of May 2017 in Munic

Women, Religion, and Peace in an American Indian Ritual

The poem prefaces Leslie Marmon Silko\u27s novel Ceremony, the story of a young American Indian who regains the wholeness and meaning of his life by rediscovering his ancient tribal roots and rituals.[1] It is a story of the American Southwest, especially the Pueblo-Laguna people. Anyone even vaguely familiar with American Indian culture knows that the groups were originally as different from each other as modern-day Swedes are from Albanians or Catalans, if not more so. There were more than 2,000 independent culture groups in Columbus\u27s time, and they spoke 500 different languages belonging to fifty distinct language groups, some as different from each other as Chinese and English.[2] It was the primitivity of white thought which lumped all the groups together under the absurd term of Indians. Hundreds of years of forced acculturation have not erased the most essential distinctions among them

[Review of] Gretchen M. Bataille, ed. Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary

This book is a treasure trove. Normally, dictionaries are not meant to be read from front to back like a novel, but this one is fascinating throughout. The few works that had been available so far on American lndian women were limited in perspective, format, or accuracy. Here for the first time we see the whole breadth and depth of Native women\u27s achievements in an astounding variety of professions, from warriors, healers, fur traders, and jewelers, to educators, attorneys, poets, and professors

[Review of] Joseph Bruchac, ed. Survival This Way: Interviews with American Indian Poets

It is risky for an editor to compose a book of twenty-one interviews , each being centered in the same type of questions: What started you writing? Who were your models? What role does your tradition play in your work? How do you relate to mainstream poetry? The amazing result of reading this book is the recognition that it is neither repetitious nor dull, but highly informative and a pleasure to read. The reason for this outcome lies not only in the poetic sensibility, literary knowledge, and psychological skill of the interviewer, but in the quality of the poets selected and the wide spread of their tribal affiliations, mixed cultural traditions, and educational as well as personal backgrounds

States’ Rights and the Scope of the Treaty Power: Could the Patriot Act be Constitutional as a Treaty?

[Excerpt] “Consider the following hypothetical scenario: after an appeal by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Supreme Court determines that the Patriot Act is unconstitutional. This decision so infuriates President Bush that he seeks out the advice of his legal counsel in a frantic attempt to bypass the Court’s ruling. After some research, President Bush’s legal advisers give him two options: he can either attempt to pass an amendment to the constitution or, with the “advice and consent of the Senate,” he can sign the Patriot Act as a treaty with a foreign nation. Either of these measures will evade the severity of the Court’s decision. After some reflection, the President chooses the treaty method because the probability of ratification is greater. This hypothetical is not merely the fruit of an imaginative mind. Rather, it is a reconstruction of an event that actually occurred, albeit in quite a different context.