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… dimples, chads and absentee ballots has raised the ire of diehard partisans who will try to weaken the president by … otherwise, is a dynamic process that revolves around three complex elements — the leader, the followers and the … they do appear to be fixated on the second major component of the leadership process: the followers. …

… Yavapais sold them to the Mohaves a year later.  Mary Ann died of an unknown illness exacerbated by famine while with … autobiography, letters with family, and anthropological studies of the native tribes she lived with.    Mifflin is … Olive remade herself into a proper Victorian lady, complete with a child (the couple adopted) and a beautiful …

… as the war drags on and Americans and Iraqis continue to die. The term "shock and awe" is in keeping with a … Smith returned to England, proclaiming his mission accomplished; but the Virginia Indian wars lasted for decades. … this terror from the air." Any society would experience "a complete breakdown," as civilians, seeking to end their …

… drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national politics. The fallout … be raised from the dead by invoking the memory of fallen soldiers. But the civil-rights movement of the mid-20th century … for the future. Robert E. Bonner is the author of "The Soldier's Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War" (2006) …

… rather, he wrote, “[t]he electors themselves are becoming the oligarchy.” Mill’s fear, like that of today’s … scheme would, he hoped, “prevent the labouring class from becoming preponderant in Parliament.” Society has changed even …

… I am become death, the shatterer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer … Department of Sociology and interdisciplinary Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego and is currently a lecturer in science and technology …

… 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 …

… between present-day immigration and the flood of newcomers who came in the past. ProjectUSA’s website is emphatic on this point. Making this distinction … in the respectable clothes of high-minded concern for the common good. To cite but a few examples: In the 1840s …

… had ever seen. Survivors of the war were not only the soldiers who fought, the wounded in mind and body. Theywere … became inalienable." [Book description from the publisher's website .]  …

… of the Second World War began. More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad … armies. Over 1.8 million became casualties. More Soviet soldiers died in the five-month battle than Americans in the entire …

… of psychedelic exploration . The Summer of Love marked the coming out party for the counter-culture we now associate … later, as well as the music festivals we see today. In comparison to today’s bloated ticket prices, admission for … she burst out onto the scene receiving incredible audience enthusiasm and critical reception. D.A. Pennebaker …

… More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad … armies. Over 1.8 million became casualties. More Soviet soldiers died in the five-month battle than Americans in the entire …

… Historical analogies, comparing something in the present with what appears to be … Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany. Their attempt to buy him off with a strategic chunk of Czechoslovakia failed. … had written “Profiles in Courage,” a book composed of studies of Americans who had stood fast under pressure. In …

… How do cold wars begin? The question is becoming more than academic as the Bush administration gropes … No single dispute was big enough, in itself, to cast the die for or against prolonged cold war. But each one required … our choices. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… 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 … school breakfast and summer feeding; and when summer comes and schools close the drop in participation is …

… rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … trustee critical of Brand's action invoked a pointed comparison: "President Truman fired General MacArthur.  … Brand fired General Knight." Defending Knight, the trustee compared Knight's firing to the earlier dismissal of a …

… votes for president. But he looked like a backwoods ruffian compared with the venerable John Quincy Adams. So elite … vice president. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… would send out a call throughout western Christendom for soldiers to come to Alexios' aid by appealing to the western desire to … But while Alexios and Urban saw the crusaders as soldiers fighting for Byzantium, the crusaders themselves were … Medieval … Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century …

… by historians, depicted by artists and celebrated by common people. In 1880, the French chose to make the … times of deterritorialized terror, outsourced prisons, bitcoins, and subcontracted state and military arbitrariness, … to Independence Square in Kyiv (not to mention the recent commemorations of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Movement ). The …

… of solving a problem facing the entire world, the summit’s composition best resembles a hodgepodge of national-or what … summits can’t bring results if those present don’t share a common language or a common tradition, no matter how pressing the issue. They end …

… Students will gather information using the Origins website to help facilitate a Socratic-style discussion that … The lesson can be done in the classroom or adapted and completed online. …

… tacos increasingly brought these foods into the American diet. As Mexican immigrants arrived in new locales, various … States.  The popularity of these dishes and Mexican ingredients pushed Mexican cuisine into fast food with the … Powder  The food tradition of the American Southwest has come about through various populations’ contributions over …

… the park’s museum, which is located beneath the Arch, was completely redesigned to acknowledge the growing consensus … video essay presented here, I ask viewers to keep this more complex and troubling context in mind as well.) Written by …