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Résumé Au-delà de la division politique de l'espace, White distingue trois grands courants de pensée concernant le lieu?: la mythologie du lieu ( genius loci ), la religion du lieu (lieux saints) et la métaphysique du lieu (topologie de l'être), dont il analyse le contenu. Les trouvant peu adaptés à notre contexte actuel, il suit les traces d'une quête du lieu chez quelques poètes-chercheurs de la modernité tardive?: Segalen, Hölderlin, Rilke et Trakl, avant d'aborder le champ de ce qu'il a appelé la «?géopoétique?».

The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, and immigration policy has always been controversial. The history of immigration in the United States is contrasted in this article with a normative standard of naturalization (immigration policy) based on the Declaration of Independence. The current immigration debate fits within a historical pattern that pits an unrestricted right of immigration (the left) against exclusive, provincial politics (the right). Both sides are simultaneously correct and incorrect. A moderate policy on immigration is possible if debate in the United States gets an infusion of what Thomas Paine called "common sense". ; Estados Unidos ha sido siempre una nación de inmigrantes, y su política respecto de la inmigración siempre ha sido controversial. En este artículo se compara la historia de la inmigración con la normativa estándar de naturalización (política de inmigración), basada en la Declaración de Independencia. El debate actual al respecto entra en un patrón histórico que contrapone el derecho irrestricto a la inmigración (la izquierda) con una política provincial excluyente (la derecha). Ambas posturas son a la vez correctas e incorrectas. Una política moderada de inmigración es posible si el debate en Estados Unidos adquiere lo que Thomas Paine llamaba "sentido común".

One of the major social problems of the 21st century is the problem of the color line. Racism is any activity by individuals, groups, institutions, or cultures that treats human beings unjustly because of color, physical features, and ethnicity and rationalizes that treatment by attributing to them undesirable biological, psychological, social, or cultural characteristics. Rwanda is no exception to the effects of racism. More than 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the government-directed ethnic cleansing of Tutsis and Hutus during 1994. It is considered this century's best organized genocide. New plans and visions for peace and justice must include a psychocultural segment for social therapy if the cycle of violence is to be broken in Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region.

An understanding of the determinants of viewer choice is fundamental to an analysis of the structure and profitability of the television broadcasting industry. This study approaches the question by broadly analyzing the distribution of audiences among programs and stations. Examination of national television ratings reveals that the share of the market captured by a given program varies widely across the nation. Since the factors that influence market shares seem to be very diverse and include such broad categories as program characteristics, station characteristics, and market characteristics, it seems instructive to first carefully analyze the data to identify the relative importance of the various factors. Factor analysis provides a convenient method for analyzing the vast array of television ratings data. This method transforms the data into a small number of principal components that help clarify the relationship among the many determinants of market shares. On examination the results indicated that station characteristics are the dominant factor explaining variations in program ratings and that the frequency assignment is the dominant station characteristic.