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… or appealing to voters in an important swing state. Some vice-presidential candidates were capable leaders, but … and the technology of the information age meant that comments made anywhere are now instantly transmitted … obtained new resources that have allowed them to become significant ongoing participants in the White House. …

… of all classes and races know a lady when we see one. She combines a highly attuned sense of others’ needs with an awareness of how she is seen by others. Some women, in attending to others’ needs, efface their own … that knowledge of others and the power of their gaze into something greater than themselves. Lady Bird Johnson …

… canonize saints. Finally, in chapter four Bartlett explains some of the ways in which the Protestant Reformation dealt … were an obvious denominational marker. “Part Two: Dynamics” comprises the bulk of the book. In chapters five through … of some pilgrims were not strictly spiritual, and he compares the practice with modern tourism. In chapter …

… Weitz helps the reader understand how and why the fragile, complex, and tense culture of Weimar Germany motivated these … do. The discussion of the sexual revolution in Germany comes closer to touching on the wide variety of general … cultural developments. However, he sees this culture as something ultimately determined by politics and economics, …

… spectacle of thousands of children from Central America, some as young as five, crossing into the United States … while other jurisdictions declared these children unwelcome. A U.S. Border Patrol poster placed around the border … from the estimated 3 million Europeans and 10 million trafficked and enslaved Africans that arrived between 1492 and …

… The Bush administration wants to drop some cash in the collection plate. If Congress enacts the … from religious life, because government money always comes with strings attached. Understanding that, in the late … Still, many religious leaders in poor neighborhoods welcome any help for their impoverished parishioners and …

… As NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe goes on, sometimes taking on the aura of melodrama, sometimes of … funded by the United States, to contain/encircle Soviet and Communist power in Eastern Europe, prevent powerful Communist parties in France and Italy from winning out and …

… a chronic condition that can have serious, life-threatening complications if left untreated. Diabetes is caused when the … date to the ancient Egyptians, over a millennium before the common era . Later, in the second century CE, the Greek … Langerhans in the pancreases of dogs. After testing their extract in a series of diabetic dogs, Banting and Best …

… Vickers, the man responsible for security at the House of Commons, with taking down the gunman. Commentators not completely caught up in Zehaf-Bibeau’s … guy” narrative, nor the liberal narrative of Canada as some kind of progressive haven that does right everything …

… legs. Harambe’s death sparked an international controversy. Some blamed the incident on the boy’s mother. Others blamed … even have gorilla enclosures in the first place? It should come as no surprise that zoos make headlines. According to a … annually, more than do all NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB games combined. These zoos also contribute almost $20 billion to …

… fragments, shedding light on Paleolithic fish processing. Some of the earliest evidence of Homo sapien s fishing comes from Central Africa where catfish were captured using … a wide array of methods to reconstruct these early lives in extraordinary detail. Technological advancements in …

… Moon, el presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, y el comandante supremo de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de … el 26 de septiembre de 2016 en Cartagena que seria entonces sometido a una votación plebiscita nacional. Las FARC es el … También es en este contexto en el que se encuentra una extraña paradoja del desarrollo político de Colombia que …

… to the Supreme Court.   T.R. recognized that those who become judges invariably have had close association with … which he has not drawn his clients.”   If anything, Obama’s comment was more neutral than Roosevelt’s. Roosevelt twice … those to which we have not been exposed.   That reality sometimes inclines judges to favor those whose positions and …

… to have an abortion–by ignoring morality, tradition, and common sense. Those who seek to ban abortion frequently … forth is unformed, but is instead at the stage of being some sort of living, shapeless thing.” This distinction … country and should be governed by Christian principles, comparisons should be based on the laws of a predominantly …

… to rise, Americans are looking to President Bush to do something that will lower them. What should he do? Limit oil … successfully cut back many consumer prices. Bush frequently compares the war in Iraq to World War II. Last month, at a ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War …

… services, and athletic facilities . Public favor for the some 3,300 degree-granting, non-profit colleges and … universities to yield an annual, independent source of income. Endowment size has served as a proxy for academic … causes. Endowments are also targeted because they have become steeply stratified over the past century. Merely …

… international tribunal? Washington wants to avoid creating something like the Nuremberg tribunal, convened by the … former leaders have been brought to account for misdeeds committed while in office. But there are obstacles to trying … United States demanded that a democratic Serbian government extradite Slobodan Milosevic to the war crimes tribunal in …

… picture of Young—neither villain nor idol—to emerge.  While some scholars have painted nineteenth-century Mormonism as … of Young's evolution as a leader brings the full complexity of his character into focus.  Upon his ascension to the position of chief priest, his fickle nature became public knowledge. For instance, while …

… the Taliban now confront the challenge of governing this complex country and establishing a stable government. Since … struggle for Islam, or jihad , enjoyed several advantages. Some of the jihadist militants, or mujahideen , had actively … supporters in the Gulf. The Taliban repeatedly refused to extradite bin Laden and, after September 11, 2001 , this …

… of the military later found expression in the Posse Comitatus law of 1878, still in force. Archaic as the title … we are to block this new threat to our republic. The Posse Comitatus law was carefully observed for nearly 80 years, … patriots. Contemporaries then, as now, realized that sometimes upholding the law required more than the local …

… free consent of over 500 rangatira (chiefs) and the tribal communities they represented. A 1939 reconstruction of the … of land and other resources. Even at the time, there was some confusion about what was being transferred to the Queen … from a British colony to an independent nation-state, becoming increasingly diverse, with over a quarter of its …

… a relic of a long ago past. If you want to get a hold of someone in the age of the Internet, you just pick up your … an app (maybe Skype, maybe FaceTime) to unlock portals of communication. Apple’s original iPhone, released in 2007. … two anniversaries this month—the opening of the first commercial transatlantic telephone service on January 7, …