Sovereignty is one of the most contested and yet indeterminate concepts in the field of political science The casual observer will know that it has something to do with ldquo unity of power rdquo ldquo legitimate right to govern rdquo and ldquo absolute control of territory rdquo but may st

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Prisoners have often written about their lives behind bars but Jens Soering rsquo s The Church of the Second Chance stands out because it involved considerable research How a reader might ask could a person serving a life sentence for murder with only limited access to a typewriter and none to

Charles Simic rsquo s poetry is and always has been gnomic His poems read like little messages containing clues mdash though often at first sight clues too cryptic to be put to use It both pleases and puzzles that at just the moment when a poem seems to approach a newly discovered center of grav