The Global Resurgence of Ethnicity: An Inquiry into the Sociology of Ideological Discontent

This essay takes the position that global resurgence of ethnic hostilities can be seen as a manifestation of discontent with the proclaimed national ideologies. The breakdown in the conviction that adherence to an ideology and the application of a related social agenda would ameliorate the critically felt ills of a society, has resulted in the redirection of frustrations towards scapegoat minorities. Whether the ideology has been democratic secularism or socialism, the inability to deliver the cargo of economic and social well being, political stabliltiy[stability] has proven to be a direct indictment against the ideology itself. And, like opportunistic diseases, ethnic suspicion, hatred, and hostility have invaded the body politic of the national communities weakened by a crisis of ideological faith. In India, for example, the trend towards Hinduization indicates disillusionment with a forty-year experiment with secularism. This essay proposes that resurgent ethnicity has filled the vacuum created by the loss of ideology, and it takes a different trajectory to the end of ideology end of history theme of K. Marx, D. Bell, H. Marcuse, and F. Fukuyama. Its objective is to enquire into the conditions needed for ideological realization and the consequences of its loss

Recent progress in QCD calculations for e^+e^- annihilation and hadron collisions

We provide a brief summary of recent developments in QCD calculations in and beyond fixed-order perturbation theory, for observables in $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilation as well as hadron collisions.Comment: 9 pages, invited review talk at the meeting LC 10- "New physics:complementarities between direct and indirect searches", Frascati, Nov 30-Dec 3, 201

[Review of] Crawford Young. Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy: A Comparative Inquiry

As we come to the end of the millennium, contrary to the more democratic and progressive aspirations of earlier decades, ethnicity continues to define political and social alliances in the struggle for power and survival. Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy, edited by Crawford Young, is a timely collection of articles which address key policies growing out of the paramount need facing nations to deal with this primordial yet potent reality. The articles follow the basic premise underscored by Young -- that ethnic crises reflect profound failures of statecraft and that the state remains the ineluctable locus of policy response, Accordingly, essays in the book, drawing from experiences of many nations, deal with policy prerogatives, which are meant to foster ethnic harmony

[Review of] Daniel Friedman and Sharon Grimberg. Miss India Georgia

Miss India Georgia is an intelligent and insightful video documentary that tells the story of four Indian American teenagers, who in `the process of preparing for Atlanta\u27s annual South Asian beauty pageant reflect on the trials and tribulations of their bi-cultural lives. It is a timeless tale told over and over as each new wave of immigrants has come ashore and their children have had to resolve the incongruities of their multiple ethnicities

Power Corrections in Deep Inelastic Event Shape Variables

Results are presented for the leading power-suppressed (1/Q) contributions to shape variables in deep inelastic lepton scattering. These are then combined with available leading order perturbative estimates.Comment: 6 pages,Latex2e, 2 figures. To be published in the proceedings of the 5th International workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering, Chicago, April 199

QCDF90: Lattice QCD with Fortran 90

We have used Fortran 90 to implement lattice QCD. We have designed a set of machine independent modules that define fields (gauge, fermions, scalars, etc...) and overloaded operators for all possible operations between fields, matrices and numbers. With these modules it is very simple to write high-level efficient programs for QCD simulations. To increase performances our modules also implements assignments that do not require temporaries, and a machine independent precision definition. We have also created a useful compression procedure for storing the lattice configurations, and a parallel implementation of the random generators. We have widely tested our program and modules on several parallel and single processor supercomputers obtaining excellent performances.Comment: LaTeX file, 8 pages, no figures. More information available at: http://hep.bu.edu/~leviar/qcdf90.htm

On Branes and Oriented B-fields

Novel theories appear on the world-volume of branes by orienting B fields along various directions of the branes. We review some of the earlier developments and explore many new examples of these theories. In particular, among other things, we study the pinning effect of branes near conifold like singularities and brane-antibrane theories with different fluxes on their world-volumes. We show that all these theories arise from different limits of an M-theory configuration with appropriately chosen G-fluxes. This gives us a way to study them from a unified framework in M-theory.Comment: 44 pages, Harvmac, 12 .eps figures; v2: Some typos corrected and references added; More typos corrected, two footnotes added and references updated. Final version to appear in Nucl. Phys.