Search Results

… news.   Jessica Blissit  From regional interventions to hacking to allegations of interference in elections, Russia … Or are they primarily reactions to events that are taking place on the global scale?   Stephen Norris      Well, … in recent works that are quite good ones. Here, I'm thinking particularly of Mikhail Zygar's book, All the Kremlin's …

… ascending to heaven from a stone in the Dome of the Rock, making this site the third holiest in the world after Mecca … to the Jews. Jews have lived in Jerusalem since the rule of King David in 10th century BCE. While many Jews fled … arrived. Cafes and bars now sit alongside vendors, making the market still a wonderful place to people-watch, day …

… insulting but patronizing. So the dilemma that we were talking about, East and West, is really ironic. You can see … life. So I think many of the assumptions that people are making when they talk about women and the West are predicated …   Johanna Sellman  Right.   Mark Sokolsky  When are we talking, like sort of eighth, ninth century or -?   Johanna …

… two-week detail happened to be over six feet tall, good-looking, and heavily decorated for their service in Italy. It … the Brazilians and their American guests. After disembarking, the honor guard was whisked away to their plush … 50 years later, one veteran remarked, “We lived like kings in Rio.” They attended soccer matches, spent hours …

… to the fall of its ally Yanukovich in Ukraine by sparking a civil war in eastern Ukraine, designed to weaken the … orbit. Others blame the United States and NATO for sparking the popular uprising in Ukraine that brought down … to operations in the Balkans and Afghanistan . Yet looking at the history of NATO shows that since its origins in …

… broadsides, and claims to represent an Afro-Asian world shaking off colonialism, Mao’s China made the perfect foil … of the other nuclear powers—the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom (which had tested its first device in 1952), and … in outer space. They would stay in Moscow for 11 days, working on a test ban, sketching out a non-diffusion pact, …

… to our next question and building upon what we've been looking at so far. We were wondering if there are differences … of the Geneva Conventions. I guess, today, what we're looking at in the Middle East, and especially in the Wars of … arrested. So the decision to even undertake this type of an assassination attempt meant that you basically had come to …

… In the process, they have transformed evangelicalism, making it more international, more racially diverse, and more … ;  The People's Pope;  Baptized in the Jordan River ;  Martin Luther and the Reformation ; and the  Catholic Prohibitions …

… Diversity and Inclusion, where she spent over 30 years working with students to support their academic goals, and echo … open things up for discussion. If you are interested in asking a question, please write it in the q&a function at the … how supportive she's been through this process, of me, taking on this role of being a student, and being a full-time …

… the Color Line” in the Late 19 th Century Chicago White Stockings baseman Adrian "Cap" Anson ( left ), and heavyweight … four occasions between 1883 and 1888, Chicago White Stocking baseball teams led by Adrian “Cap” Anson refused to … of the Nation of Islam and an episode of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. 6. The 1968 Olympic 200m Final …

… appointed a main judge and an alternate judge: making up the eight members of the Tribunal. The alternate … had been forced to support the German war economy by working as slave laborers. He also shared the Tribunal’s … Speer received 20 years, and Konstantin von Neurath 15. Martin Bormann received a death sentence in absentia. The …

… since they completely re-wrote the rules of airliner hijacking. Until then, hijackings had been theatrical affairs in which the hijackers … lives for political concessions. The September 11 hijackings, however, were about the aircraft, not the people on …

… returned to Japan suffering from radiation poisoning, shocking the world and civil defense officials with this … work or whether it would only scare the population by making nuclear war more imaginable. After Kennedy’s initial … the number of possible spaces and expedited the stocking and marking of shelters nationwide. Despite the shelter …

… history—Drs.  Elena Jackson Albarrán and  Reyna Esquivel-King —to consider what exactly such a transformation might … She's joining us today from Oxford, Ohio. Thank you for speaking with us, Elena. Dr. Elena Jackson Albarrán  Thanks for … in which journalists are the number one targeted victims of assassination by drug cartels, it's a really dangerous time …

… it was only a matter of time before this became a money-making operation. Though baseball was first used to promote … and who represented many of the best players, were taking advantage of the system. They were often scapegoated as … for the Boston Red Sox Xander Bogaerts is quoted in TIME talking about the diversity of baseball, saying the sport “is a …

… Americans facing unemployment, losing their homes, and racking up student loan debt, the idea of a struggling "99 … But abruptly, people and politicians have started talking about a class divide. More and more of them detect a … years, largely through increased compensation for the "working rich," such as CEOs. Billionaire Warren Buffet raised …

… missiles so that FARC could shoot down American pilots working with Colombian government officials. The Lessons of … in the sixteenth century, European traders began trafficking arms into African, American, and, to a lesser extent, … to West Africa commenced in the late 1690s, with gun-making centers in London and (a little later) Birmingham, …

… on to fill the soldiers’ place in the industrial world, working jobs that have been previously viewed as unsuitable for … to fight against the segregation of public schooling working on dismantling segregated public accommodations and … women who became feminists got their start actually in working for women's rights for Black civil rights, but even I …

… (Photo by Gage Skidmore). As Trump attacks the press —mocking and feuding with journalists, threatening to change … Cable news organizations are expected to make a record-breaking $2.5 billion this election season. This profit motive … is symptomatic of a highly commercialized system. Profit-seeking is in the media’s very DNA and the always-controversial …

… This legal, institutional response was a long time in the making. Its direct origin lies in Spain in 1558, when a female … after the Age of Graham ;  Baptized in the Jordan;    Martin Luther and the Reformation ; and  the Catholic Church and …

… have some intellectual re-tooling to do. I offer my own working definition by way of a starting point. war , n , – … on the spot, particularly Ambassador to Saigon Graham Martin, responded in an inchoate manner. Unwilling to accept … societies often take a very long time to heal. … John Guilmartin … Features … Military/War/Peace … Afghanistan … …

… in overrunning much of Central and Western Europe, most shockingly its rapid victory over France. The USSR, in turn, had … and Japan along very broad lines,” which would mean working together to partition the British Empire. Molotov … . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Craig W.H. Luther, The First Day on the Eastern Front: Germany Invades …

… and The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa. ( Image Source ) … Eric Michael … of the virus that ends up causing aids scientists looking at the viral clock of HIV have found samples in human … think that it first appeared?   Dr. Thomas McDow   Well, working from the work of Beatrice Han and her team to work with …

… of popular fascination and discussion. What is most striking in the post-socialist reincarnation of these imposing … spray-painted “Occupiers!” on the structure. Even more striking is the neglect of the 1300 Years Bulgaria monument in … the ground to declare, “This is where Bulgaria will be!”; King Boris I the Baptist who christened the pagan …