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This article presents a reevaluation of Andrey Stolz as more than either a "weak point" in the novel or a "plot device" and "simple foil" to Oblomov (as D. Senese represents Dobrolyubov's position). I investigate the problematic nature of "Germanness" in the novel according to the Imagological methodology, and this allows me to explore how Andrey's intercultural identity is mediated through a myriad of different perspectives in the novel. Andrey accesses two politically-loaded symbolic sets of the German character in mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature: as an outsider, an Other, who is a negatively-valued opposite by which the positive Russian Self can be defined; and as an aspect of the internalized German in Russian culture, where the Other functions as a symbol of the westernizing process within Russian society. Andrey's unstable Germanness thus exposes the paradox of expressing the Russian Self in the 19th century, where the Russian is constructed in contrast to-yet also in terms of-the imagined Western Other. I therefore challenge the prevailing assumption that Andrey is meant only to be the "antidote" to Oblomov, and suggest that his character elucidates the instability of the Russian Self Image. ; В настоящей статье идёт речь о "немецкости" Андрея Штольца и о том, как она связана с образом немцев в русской литературе XIX века. Штольц не является ни "противоядием" для Обломова, ни "просто противоположностью" ему, а выражает кризис личности, характерный для образа "русского" и "русскости" в XIX веке. Автор использует имагологическую методику, чтобы исследовать оба аспекта стереотипа немца в русской литературе XIX века: это и диаметральная противоположность образу "русского", конструирующая положительные черты последнего, и часть собственно "русского", демонстрирующая присущую русской личности той эпохи нестабильность.

Walker, president of the Middle East Instit, in a 3 Dec 2001 interview, discusses such peace-related issues as the failure to reach an agreement at Camp David & Taba, & presidential involvement in the peace process -- President Bush's involvement is only symbolic, while former President Clinton's was overzealous. Also discussed are Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the need for a Palestinian state to be democratic, & Walker's views regarding Benjamin Netanyahu, former prime minister of Israel. In relation to violence, Hamas & the Palestinian Islamic Jihad are discussed, as well as the intifada & the effectiveness of a policy of assassination. Walker contends that Hizbullah's occupation of southern Lebanon was resistance, not terrorism, but Hizbullah is a terrorist organization. Other topics of discussion are Saddam Husayn (Hussein) & Saudi Arabia-US relations. A. Lee

In contrast to the modernist models which have dominated the psychological study of moral development in recent decades, the model of moral development presented here rests on the premise that situations in the real world are inherently ambiguous, and that their moral significance in particular is profoundly underdetermined by available 'facts'. Under these conditions, our interpretations of moral events are necessarily biased by the interpretive habits in our repertoire. These habits of cognition – which simultaneously perceive the moral world and constitute it – are founded in early socialization, and are then directed and shaped throughout life by reflection and by our experience. The description of the model is buttressed by research results, including a study of narratives collected from working class African-, European-, and Mexican-American men and women.