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… different parties have gained the 20 seats necessary to become a “negotiation group”—a parliamentary caucus that holds … towards the president or the party leader, are the most common cause of this cycle of division and integration.  … its illegality, nor its decriminalization, rose to become animating factors for any party.  Lately, issues of …

… evening, his well-deserved vindication will probably never come. Thrust into a difficult situation — one he handled … Nixon would not be prosecuted for any crimes he might have committed. Forever afterward, Ford was dogged by charges … for Ford’s reputation to rebound. The rebound has never come. Invariably, in every poll and book and study, he is …

… drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national politics. The fallout … emotional support of Virginia’s ban on cross-burning. The incoming governor of Georgia meanwhile ponders whether to … brought national largesse to Mississippi. In doing so, he compromised his own supposed aversion to the federal …

… Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of plutonium, visited Richland, Washington, and the adjacent Hanford Nuclear … attends Operation Plumbbob as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1968 (left). The nuclear reactors at the Hanford … to celebrate the bomb. As Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) throughout the 1960s, he was perhaps the …

… would help define American life for generations to come. In 1964, the relatively new musical genre of rock and … in race music and began to provide more of these records to complement the demand. Radio DJs like Alan Freed started … the opinions of the record executive, Mitch Miller, who complained in 1958, “Much of the juvenile stuff pumped over …

…                           The 2014 Winter Olympics are now officially in full swing. Historian and  Origins  …

… Guantanamo Bay has become one the most infamous places on earth.  In the United … Irving Max Schwab seeks to uncover and give voice to the complete history of the installation that is largely absent … Democratic, supported strengthening the navy.  Government officials recognized the importance of naval bases in …

… it was being spoken about by fans of literature, who often complained about the stifling power of the novel and the … of pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta committed by ex-student Rodion Raskolnikov were “the purest … Punishment was published, a student by the name of Danilov committed a similar crime: killing a moneylender and his …

… the rights of his novel to a printer. He was buried in a common grave. Most profoundly, our modern sensibility is … of the Bible, the  Iliad  and  Odyssey , the  Divine Comedy  and the  Canterbury Tales —didn’t explore our inner … There will be countless festivities around the world to commemorate 400 years since their deaths. Shakespeare’s …

… World War. After listening to his story, I asked him to compare what he knew of Vietnam to his own experiences. His … than generals." This view, which is representative of comments made by other veterans I interviewed, does not seem … whose theories competed for the attention of elected officials. Thriving in what Elaine Tyler May has called "the …

… to the nation he coined the phrase "military-industrial complex." Eisenhower used that address to issue a warning to … spirit as well. In this book, Koistinen explains how that complex (he abbreviates it MIC) came to be and how it has … to which many of the nation's high-tech and aerospace companies exist on Department of Defense contracts. The next …

… to worse. Newscasters spin doomsday scenarios. So do public officials. But should Attorney General John Ashcroft be … of immigrants were rounded up on vague suspicion of communist or anarchist sympathies. Ashcroft and his aides have indicated, commendably, that they want to avoid the civil liberties …

… relations in the region. By 2001, Christmas had become a casualty of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Israel … accommodating mainly journalists and Palestinian Authority officials, reached 50 percent capacity on December 24, … have flourished. In 2003, over 300,000 Israeli tourists visited the Turkish resort of Antalya. In 2005, despite a …

… little surprise to any knowledgeable government or military official from either nation. Joseph Grew, the American … the bay, devoid of protective torpedo nets, without combat watches on duty, and lacking accessible ammunition, … ground based anti-aircraft fire or airborne fighters, was completely ineffectual. All told the Japanese lost …

… Iraq last year, it disbanded the Iraqi army. But U.S. officials soon recognized this was a mistake and now believe … by hostile states or require an open-ended U.S. military commitment to Iraq. In short, this issue is of crucial … in the Middle East. It will also determine the future commitment of the United States to Iraq. Maj. Gen. Paul …

… the effect of child hunger in war-torn Europe, started a committee to bolster the existing national school lunch … these efforts the journey to end child hunger is far from complete. There are still huge gaps in participation in the … and Dole.   For instance, communities can help set up sites for summer feeding. If enough people volunteer and …

… World Track Championships in Berlin last month, has been unofficially declared intersexed. If she is, it means that she … go either way. All it took was the parents’ unwavering commitment toward raising either a boy or a girl, and this … distinguishable. As some declare Semenya too manly to compete, for example, a popular South African magazine …

… of violence and instability until 1922. Multiple communities of former tsarist imperial subjects imagined the … Kharkiv, a former university and industrial city, where officials oversaw an experiment creating a polity both … raised the grain quotas for newly collectivized villages. Combined with bad harvests this led to the Holodomor , the …

… afternoon filed required restructuring plans with federal officials. Chrysler wants $5 billion more in federal loans … starting to remake Maxwell Motors into his future Big Three company. In 1922, there was one registered passenger car or … of a car (or two) in every driveway.   From Keystone Cops comedies to contemporary movie chases to sophisticated art, …

… pluralist implication of the St. Patrick's Day parades becomes more apparent as we look at the events held in cities … this ideal, but it's important to recognize how far we have come.   So when this weekend's St. Patrick's Day parades pay …

… to find oxygen, medication, and hospital beds. The official daily death toll now nears 4,000, and this is … patients’ access to lifesaving medical assistance, all compounded by the emergence of a new variant that may be … to challenge the underlying health inequities that have become so glaringly apparent in India’s second coronavirus …

… of this lesson is to reflect on the response of government officials and public health officers to previous pandemics … outbreak, and the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic to aid us in combating COVID-19 on the local, state, and national levels. … during previous epidemics and pandemics to aid us in combating COVID-19 on the local, state, and national levels? …