In an interdependent and globalized world, that is an anachronism that does not serve the purposes of the Organization.

Issues recently covered included the return of Vieques to the Puerto Rican people, the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and the statement by the Secretary General that colonialism was an anachronism in the twenty first century.

So he asked me, could he please visit me, and then finally he did, and explained to me that what I did now in my shop was an anachronism, that the industrial revolution had broken out, and that I rather should join the factory.

One useful step on our part would be to end the anachronism of bringing together many of the world s principal leaders in the annual G 8 meeting of industrialized countries and not including China (or India or Brazil, for that matter) as a matter of course.

Indeed, while wars from the time of Hannibal s defeat of the Romans in 216 B.C. to the Gulf War of 1991 had this center of gravity, with a massive concentration of force capable of bringing an enemy to its knees, such industrial inter state wars have now become an historical anachronism. Most states nowadays lie within borders that are widely accepted as legitimate, and they increasingly abide by international norms of behavior in times of war.