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… Within fifteen years, Enron executives transformed their company from a middling firm into the seventh-largest … regulatory vacuum. Then they covered their tracks with complicated transactions that lined insiders’ pockets. In … by establishing hundreds of dummy corporations.  Enron took credit for the dummies’ profits, but not their losses. …

… we could, you know, leave the house and not really have to come back until it was time for dinner. We could ride our … drug policy, which only lasted for about 18 months. But credit where it's due. He's the only president to send equal … for Harry Anslinger was that the truth was exactly the opposite: it was Chiang Kai-Shek’s allies who were trafficking …

… drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national politics. The fallout … political parties. In the process, racism became as discredited rhetorically as treason and slavery. … romantic Lost Cause tragically doomed by their adversaries’ superior forces; they found themselves championing the …

… When Al Gore allegedly claimed he invented the Internet, comedians, political  pundits and Republicans had a field … optic network, along with the servers, software and other components of what became the Internet, didn't differ from … the federal government a catalyst for the "information superhighway." While only the 1991 High Performance …

… or expediency.” (This situation replicated itself in the communist states of eastern Europe; Vaclav Klaus, the first post-communist prime minister of the Czech Republic, once quipped … Holding the party leadership responsible for its crimes against the Iraqi people is essential. But the purge can …

…   Mark Sokolsky  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … North Africa, the question of women's rights frequently comes to the fore. And generally the overall impression is one … Sokolsky. Song and bad information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at origins.osu.edu …

… sixth series will debut in 2017) hundreds of novels and comic books, and countless toys, games, uniforms and other … when science-fiction, and the related genres of fantasy and superheroes dominate television and cinema screens. It … thinking of leaving Star Trek when Martin Luther King Jr. visited the set. He insisted that she remain on the show …

… west became (if ambivalently for some) the second former communist-bloc state to assume the rotating presidency of … Czechs were able to exercise more control over both domestic and foreign policy in large part because they enjoyed … misusing police and security services to intimidate or discredit his political opposition and further his party's …

… of future discussions of gun control for decades to come. It might even have an impact on the dynamics of the … particularly the idea of the Minuteman. Thus, gun rights sites on the internet invariably carry images of the … did not mean what gun rights advocates think it means comes from the work of the historian Nathan Kozuskanich. His …

… Mugabe has dominated Zimbabwean politics since 1980, having come to power on a wave of popular support developed during … Mashonaland. Believing in an ideology of innate British superiority, Rhodes claimed that placing the region's ethnic … during colonialism and continues to be used today to discredit and dismiss WOZA and other women's groups in Zimbabwe …

… bases, which may now be concluding, is not new. The names should have been changed a long time ago. The … moves from the Jim Crow era. The opportunity to change our common legacy rests fully in our hands. Renaming these bases … American Civil War. In 1942, at the behest of Robert Sink, commander of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, the U.S. …

… to sustain themselves in deep sea until the vessel actually comes by." Under the pirates' command, the Sirius Star sailed … helping the Ethiopians remove Gurey, with the aid of their superior weapons, but they didn't last too long in the …

… have changed some ideas about race in America. A New York Times/CBS poll showed that nearly two-thirds of the people … and hear Obama and learn more about him, they became more comfortable with the notion of his leadership in the White … movies featuring Will Smith and Denzel Washington as super-heroes. A few decades ago black movie star Morgan …

… On July 1, 2011, the United Nations welcomed its newest member. South Sudan's January referendum on … reforms, civil reconstruction, protection of heritage sites, and financial reform. Peacekeeping missions became … of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim boys and men by Bosnian Serbs discredited UNPROFOR and disgraced the international community. …

… time that the United States hosted an international cricket competition. In fact, the first international cricket game … in the 21st century. Hundreds of years after the first games of cricket were played, it is now the second most … served as a powerful way to challenge notions of British superiority. While cricket thrived in places like India and …

… Yemen’s internationally recognized government is sitting comfortably in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 900 miles away from … as battles for the control of aid networks are sometimes fiercer than fighting for actual territorial control. … Ahmad, the Famous Forty returned home with far more than a superior education. Few of them were content with the imam’s …

… violence. By the end, a few thousand Spaniards under the command of Hernando Cortés fighting alongside many times more Indigenous warriors from places like Tlaxcala and … propagated: that a handful of Spaniards of inherently superior quality to Indigenous peoples in the Americas …

… in American society. Educators tended to take an opposite view of these developments, believing that they … of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Weingarten complains that the administration's plans "put 100 percent … the war against Hitler's genocidal racism did much to discredit the racist ideologies (that is, biological …

… Dr. Lucy Murphy  Welcome to Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma and … was actually also very common for parents to plead with the superintendent to allow the children to attend because they … and even in the missionary, so, you know, the opposite side with the missionary schools, those were funded by …

… that conferred upon whites a perverse sense of social superiority. The racial line might be crossed when lust came … husband when he was nine) declared that her son “may have committed a sin, but never committed a crime,” she … future with all the force of a mighty stream. When it comes to justice, Sen. Thurmond knew it as well as Marcus …

… confirmation hearings are underway in the Senate Judiciary Committee, a rite of passage for Supreme Court nominees. … for debates at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed that Congress be given the power to … everyday life since the early 1900s — from social issues to credit card regulation — presidents have increasingly …

… Brenna Miller   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … Rock who organized a walk, a relay race actually from the site to Nebraska in May of 2016, and really energized the … soil and mudslides and so on go, I think the question becomes what happens if there's a leak? What happens to the …