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In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties. Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing nothing of value in return. In others, like Korea, it is developmental, promoting industrial transformation. In still others, like Brazil and India, it is in between, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Evans's years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society that Evans called \"embedded autonomy.\"

In late March, New York-based jazz trio Medeski, [Martin] and Wood (MMW) completed a tour of the American Northeast, after which keyboardist John Medeski joined Russian rock band Auktyon and guitarist Marc Ribot at Irving Plaza for a one-night engagement. Then Ribot flew to Israel to participate in the John Zorn Festival here, while MMW geared up for a three-night, six-show residency at Tel Aviv's [Goldstar Zappa] club. When the first night of MMW shows was canceled, it just meant that the band members were free to attend Zorn's Cobra show at the Barby down in South Tel Aviv.

Warm-up band Useless ID was impressive with sung-in- English punk pop featuring some songs off its soon-to-be- recorded second album...

-- Janet Reno, U.S. attorney general, on the U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that Elian is not entitled to a hearing on whether he should be granted political asylum in the United States.

CERTAINLY can't fault the New Zealand supporters.