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The lengthy list of the 25 nominees for the 2008 USA Basketball Team for the Olympics has at long last been announced. The USA Basketball team looks to redeem themselves after a poor bronze medal showing at the 2004 Olympics.
The list includes 21 NBA stars (in alphabetical order): Carmelo Anthony, Gilbert Arenas, Shane Battier, Chauncey Billups, Chris Bosh, Bruce Bowen, Elton Brand, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, LeBron James, Antawn Jamison, Joe Johnson, Shawn Marion, Brad Miller, Lamar Odom, Chris Paul, Paul Pierce, Michael Redd, Luke Ridnour, Amare Stoudemire, and Dwyane Wade.
J.J. Redick and Adam Morrison, both of whom are presently still in college, are also invited, rounding out the roster to 23 total players.
One player’s exclusion has garnered heated media attention, and his name isAllen Iverson. Many point to Iverson’s age and style of play as reasons for his exclusion, in spite of his indispensable role in the last Olympics.
“We wanted a team not of person stars, but athleticism, shooters, role players and distributors,” national team managing conductor Jerry Colangelo said.
Colangelo is likewise hoping that high school basketball star Greg Oden will be competent to join the team for training this summer.
The 23 players will attend a training camp in Las Vegas in July. The team will then fly to China and South Korea to participate in exhibition games. Afterwards, a 12-man roster will be chosen for the world championships kept in Japan.
There will be another training camp in 2007, which could be territorial Olympic qualifying. It will be followed by another camp and further and added exhibition games in 2008, before the Beijing Olympics begin.
The team will be led by Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski.
United States Paul Gilbert
In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands populated by seven million humans of respective ethnicities. While it became a colonial power at the zenith of global imperialism, the United States nevertheless conceived of it is rule as exceptional—an exercise in benevolence rather than in tyranny and exploitation. In this volume, Julian Go and Anne L. Foster untangle this peculiar self-fashioning and insist on the importance of studying U.S. colonial rule in the context of other imperialist ventures. A necessary elaboration of critical focus, The American Colonial State in the Philippines is the initial systematic try to thoroughly and closely question or examine the creation and administration of the American colonial state from comparative, global perspectives. Written by social scientists and historians, these essays investigate respective distinct features of American colonial government through comparison with and contextualization within colonial regimes elsewhere in the world—from British Malaysia and Dutch Indonesia to Japanese Taiwan and America’s other major overseas colony, Puerto Rico. Contributors explore the program of political education in the Philippines; constructions of nationalism, race, and religion; the regulation of opium; connections to politics on the U.S. mainland; and anticolonial resistance. Tracking the complex connections, circuits, and contests across, within, and amid empires that shaped America’s colonial regime, The American Colonial State in the Philippines sheds new light on the complexities of American imperialism and turn-of-the-century colonialism.
Contributors. Patricio N. Abinales, Donna J. Amoroso, Paul Barclay, Vince Boudreau, Anne L. Foster, Julian Go, Paul A. Kramer
Review “This superb collection of essays provides a necessary background for the stories that jump off today’s front pages—a supposedly wondrous American ‘empire,’ the concealed dilemmas of nation-building, drug-trafficking, colliding cultures, and a touching faith in American exceptionalism. As analyzed by some of our best younger scholars, we may now see clearly—and learn from—what happened to that earlier generation who set out to make the United States an imperial power.”—Walter LaFeber, Cornell University
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The American Colonial State in the Philippines is a organized try to study the construction and management of the American colonial state from a “global” perspective. Go, in the introduction, argue, “The point of analyzing the U.S. colonial state in the Philippines from a international perspective is neither to assert nor to “test” the well-worn discourse of exceptionalism” (Go and Foster, The American Colonial State in the Philippines 3). The United States became a colonial power at the peak of international imperialism. However, the United States saw it is project as particular – as we have seen antecedently with Rafael and Anderson – as altruistic and benevolent rather than tyrannical and exploitative (Go and Foster, The American Colonial State in the Philippines 11). In 1898, the US took over the Philippines, a immense archipelago an approximated seven thousand islands populated by seven million persons of an assortment of ethnicities. While it became a colonial power at the peak of international imperialism, the US nevertheless envisaged it is rule as one of a kind — a mission of benevolence rather than in tyranny. In this book, Go and Foster unravel this strange self-invention as benevolent assimilator, argue for the importance of learning with regards to the US colonial project/rule in the framework of, and juxtaposed versus other imperialist projects.
An necessary development of critical focus, The American Colonial State in the Philippines is the initial coordinated try to thoroughly question the manufacture and management of the American colonial state from a comparative, international perspective. The essays explore a mixture of facets of the American colonial government through contrast with and contextualization within colonial regimes elsewhere. The collection is wide and subscribers look at such programs as political education; constructions of nationalism, race, and religion; the regulation of opium; connections to politics on the U.S. mainland; and anticolonial resistance. As a function of studying America and the World, The American Colonial State in the Philippines examines the complexities of American imperialism and turn-of-the-century colonialism.
Amoroso’s chapter in The American Colonial State in the Philippines adds complexity to American imperialism is the article we are most mesmerized in. In “Inheriting the “Moro Problem”: Muslim Authority and Colonial Rule in British Malaya and the Philippines” the model of British “Indirect Rule” is challenged and in it is place the American policy of “Direct Rule” is chosen (Go and Foster, The American Colonial State in the Philippines 135). This policy resulted, it is argued by Amoroso, in the undermining of the authority of the Sultans and the empowerment of local Datus. Moreover, Leonard Wood, governor of the Moro province (1903-1906), in three short years efficaciously ignored Sharia law and substituted it with American laws (Go and Foster, The American Colonial State in the Philippines 141). By seeing the Muslims in the south as a “problem” and undermining the central authorities, “The long-term result was marginality, dissatisfaction, and ultimately, amidst many, rejection of the Philippine nation-state” (Go and Foster, The American Colonial State in the Philippines 143). It is into this venue, historical development, and trajectory coupled with the war on terror that the United States and the Armed Forces of the Philippines commence preparation for “Balikatan 2008.” My only hope is that the players are conscious of the historical complexity and act with sensitivity.
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