Making Feminist Sense out of ‘Charlie Wilson's War’

Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Mike Nichols's film about the womanizing Congressman who engineered black funds for the CIA's proxy war in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, is historically misleading but highly instructive, because in packaging dominant American masculine identity and war politics as popular entertainment for post-9/11 audiences, it reveals the sexed and gendered ‘politics of the visual’ in global affairs. This intertextual study of ‘Charlie Wilson's war’ as movie, constructed history and legacy examines Wilson as a prime exhibit of a needy masculinity that, like the film's emasculated CIA, bulks itself up through surrogate military selves. It also analyses modes of the imaginary and specularity in brother-bonding with the mujahidin, tracks the proxy system's loops of masculine identity-and-war-making between Stateside and South Asia in the post-Vietnam 1980s and interrogates the dynamics of imperial ‘un-seeing’ in this campaign and its long aftermath. While US proxy wars proliferate worldwide, the lack of useable political memory about the ground truths of ‘Charlie's war’ continues to matter because America's second ‘good’ war in Afghanistan, bound to the first by gendered causal links, has re-empowered the forces that still menace women's rights and lives.     

《八月之光》:宗教多重性与民族身份认同

《八月之光》是福克纳小说中最具挑战性的一部力作。小说主要以人物的记忆为核心来呈现个体身份认同和寻求社会归属等重大人生问题,并在种族主义、暴力和性等多视角上揭示出了作家的宗教多重性思想。从美国文学传统的角度来看,小说在美利坚国家民族身份认同的宏大叙述主题上也占据重要地位。     

One-sided asymptotic inferences for a proportion

Two-sided asymptotic confidence intervals for an unknown proportion p have been the subject of a great deal of literature. Surprisingly, there are very few papers devoted, like this article, to the case of one tail, despite its great importance in practice and the fact that its behavior is usually different from that of the case with two tails. This paper evaluates 47 methods and concludes that (1) the optimal method is the classic Wilson method with a correction for continuity and (2) a simpler option, almost as good as the first, is the new adjusted Wald method (Wald's classic method applied to the data increased in the values proposed by Borkowf: adding a single imaginary failure or success).     

试析斯特林堡《一出梦的戏剧》中的表现主义

瑞典戏剧家斯特林堡被誉于欧洲现代戏剧之父,他的《一出梦的戏剧》是最具有表现主义特征的戏剧作品,不仅突出地体现了斯特林堡高超的戏剧创作技巧,更综合展现了表现主义戏剧的独特魅力。从表现主义视角分析《一出梦的戏剧》中的人物塑造、情节发展和舞台技巧,能清晰展示出作品的表现主义戏剧特征,并能深刻揭示出斯特林堡对人生本质和精神世界的看法。     

Some Properties of the Exact and Score Methods for Binomial Proportion and Sample Size Calculation

In this article, we point out some interesting relations between the exact test and the score test for a binomial proportion p. Based on the properties of the tests, we propose some approximate as well as exact methods of computing sample sizes required for the tests to attain a specified power. Sample sizes required for the tests are tabulated for various values of p to attain a power of 0.80 at level 0.05. We also propose approximate and exact methods of computing sample sizes needed to construct confidence intervals with a given precision. Using the proposed exact methods, sample sizes required to construct 95% confidence intervals with various precisions are tabulated for p = .05(.05).5. The approximate methods for computing sample sizes for score confidence intervals are very satisfactory and the results coincide with those of the exact methods for many cases.     

More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues and Chance: A Guide to Gambling,Love, the Stock Market, & Just About Everything Else

In this article we review two historical approximations to the Poisson and binomial cumulative distribution functions (CDFs); that is, the Wilson–Hilferty and Camp–Paulson approximations. Both of these approximations reduce to standard normal formulas that produce very accurate estimates of the Poisson and binomial CDFs, and are thus quite simple to implement. Additionally, in an upper-division undergraduate or master’s level probability and inference course, the derivation of these approximations presents a nice opportunity to introduce and study the distributional relationships between the gamma and Poisson CDFs, and the binomial, beta, and F CDFs. This article presents the basic theorems and lemmas needed to derive each approximation, along with some relevant examples that compare and contrast the precision of these approximations with their large-sample, limiting normal counterparts.     

从巴黎和会上的山东问题看世界新旧秩序的冲突

巴黎和会上,面对错综复杂的“山东问题”,美国总统威尔逊起初积极支持中国的要求,而后迫于各方面压力接受了日本的条件。处理“山东问题”的曲折过程,从一个侧面折射出世界新、旧秩序观念在巴黎和会上的激烈冲突,同时反映出威尔逊新秩序构想的失败。     

公共行政的继往开来之路——纪念伍德罗·威尔逊发表《行政学研究》120周年

120年前,威尔逊发表了《行政学研究》一文,它是公共行政学这门学科产生的标志性文献,也是近代政治发展的必然结果。在整个20世纪公共行政理论与实践的发展中,《行政学研究》一文提出的基本思想都是一个绕不开的主题,一切关于公共行政的理论思考和实践安排,都必须考虑政治与行政二分的框架。但是,威尔逊的行政学成就所代表的是工业社会的政治文明,当人类开始走向后工业社会的时候,关于公共行政的新理论及其实践也进入了一个新的纪元。     

"政行二分"理论的偏移与复归——纪念威尔逊《行政学研究》一文发表暨公共行政学诞生120周年

威尔逊政行二分理论包括两个方面,一是政行分离,二是政行相互依存。前者既指政行功能分离,也指政行领域分离,且领域分离先于功能分离;后者既指功能相互依存,也指领域相互依存,且领域依存先于功能依存。因而,政行二分准确地说是指政行弹性分离。威尔逊之后的行政学家囿于经验,断言政行不分;不仅否定了政行分离的一面,也未深刻领会政行相依的一面。特别是以西蒙为首的决策学派,在该方面造成了恶劣的影响。政行弹性分离并非经验事实,而是政治世界的"理性事实";它源于政治与行政各自不同的本性,自在地先于现实的政治与行政。政行弹性分离是公共行政正常运行的规范前提,是公共行政学迅速发展的首要条件。因此,现实的政行关系是朝着政行弹性分离运动的。展望公共行政学发展120年后的道路,我们依然朝着威尔逊的方向前进。     

盖·威尔逊·艾伦与20世纪的惠特曼研究

盖·威尔逊·艾伦致力于惠特曼研究 ,长达半个多世纪 ,业绩卓著 ,也引动了 2 0世纪的一批学者和批评家进行相关的研究 ,从而使惠特曼及其作品摆脱了文学艺术偏见和误解 ,逐渐为学术界和阅读大众所普遍接受 ,并使其创作遗产融入美国文学经典与文化资源的核心部分。但是由于“冷战”时期的历史原因 ,艾伦对于五四运动以来中国接受惠特曼的情况所知甚少 ,因此他的某些评价显然是政治性的误读 ,不符合客观实际。