Native Peoples Volume 5, Number 1, Winter, 1992

Synopsis: Dubbed Spooks across the pond, MI-5 is the BBC's rather convincing answer to Fox's homeland security hit, 24. The U.S. title MI-5 comes from Britain's equivalent of the FBI, where the counterterrorism unit known as Section B is led by Harry Pearce (Peter Firth), a confident and decisive army veteran whose service in Northern Ireland left him with a strong disdain for bad guys with bullets and bombs. The show's main character is hotshot spy Tom Quinn (Matthew MacFadyen), a focused, dedicated...

Peter Egan's entertaining and insightful columns have long been a cornerstone of Road & Track magazine. Readers have learned to seek out his column each month to hear of his latest adventure, which is just as likely to have occurred amongst the ever-changing collection of machinery within his garage as out on the open road. Egans observations on the nature of the modern motoring enthusiast are sure to strike a chord with like-minded souls. Columns in this collection include "Burning the Candle at...

Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author of the fifteenth century. Bruni's "History of the Florentine People" in twelve books is generally considered the first modern work of history, and was widely imitated by humanist historians for two centuries after its official...