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… to loosen his creativity and imagination. As we have come to know Fitzgerald the person, the chances are good … one may inquire as to whether the issue was as politically compelling as Drowne contends, or whether those people who … with the prohibition era and its literature. To her credit, I find myself compelled to read many of the books …

… from viewers and readers and more than 6,000 entries in comment books from exhibitions—Gilburd gives voice to Soviet … during the Thaw, noting that one of the most important outcomes of the new policy of cultural exchange was “a constant … was first envisioned on paper and was later welcomed by Soviet citizens who enthusiastically participated …

… administration and the North Korean regime and an errant incoming missile alert in Hawaii have focused America’s … fallout shelter signs and the wail of emergency sirens more commonly used for tornadoes than incoming nuclear attack. 1. … Now anyone on earth, even thousands of miles from the site of a blast, could be killed or injured by nuclear …

… Agency (WADA) Dick Pound presented “The Independent Commission Report #1” to the press corps. The 323-page … country’s anti-doping establishment. WADA’s “Independent Commission Report #1” team (Richard Pound, Richard McLaren, … athletes dope to enhance their performance. Among the 42 recommendations specific to Russian sport and anti-doping, the …

… They have shown no inclination toward the kind of compromise that characterized President Reagan on issues … gubernatorial campaign Ronald Reagan declared his 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow … his party in order to rebuild it; that change had to come from within. The result was the Age of Reagan.   The …

… one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of assimilation and rejection of … to the West for the technologies and ideologies needed to compete in European international politics. In the usual …

… superpower status. Its narrowing, unstable economy has become dependent on the export of a single commodity: energy. Energy production in Russia, in addition … is reported to have drifted around 12 km from the accident site. In this animation, diesel oil is visible in the …

… who cling to it, but it does not faithfully convey the record of history. Among other things, in casting Athens as … story, the myth relegates that city’s more interesting, complicated history to the margins. Ian Worthington’s latest … between Athens and Rome poignantly illustrate Athens’ complicated relationship with the rest of the Mediterranean …

… of Ukraine: Russia cannot be an empire without Ukraine and coming to terms with Ukraine’s separate nationhood is a … nations. With Ukrainian independence, Russia lost many sites enshrined in its historical memory, including the … Russia and the Soviet past, however, worked in the opposite way in the Donbas, Ukraine’s depressed industrial …

… attempted the same kind of program in Vietnam. It failed completely. The second measure calls for an Iraqi government … would inherit the postwar mess while the United States took credit for toppling Hussein. Invading Iraq was a dangerous … Today, most Americans would be glad just to have our troops come home. The trick is to get them out without seriously …

… chemists had worked to find an organizing principle that encompassed all of the known elements and that could be … characteristics—they were largely inert and resistant to combining with other substances—but the entire set fit … in 1952. A 1923 Deming Periodic Table ; chemists frequently credit Horace Deming, a professor at the University of …

… of waterways serves as a metaphor for the subcontinent’s complicated post-colonial coming of age. Favoring academic history over Rushdie’s … migration of between ten and twenty million people, accompanied by a quick descent into chaos, violence, and at …

… and lesser men. While African American soldiers and communities protested these conditions, the small size of … patriotism, however, did not discourage their desire to combat racism and fascism at home. Black activists were able … an imperfect reflection of American society and viewed as a site of inclusion and opportunity for Black people and other …

… of Qing laws prohibiting the drug. After one Chinese trade commissioner captured and publicly destroyed British opium … ship seized by China on suspicion of piracy—reducing its complex causes to only its precipitating event. … events entirely. In the 1950s, for example, observers of communist China described Chairman Mao Zedong ’s campaign to …

… antiwar movement, Black Power, and the generation gap had come even to Ohio. As the iconoclastic journalist I.F. Stone … Guard moved on campus and pushed students from the central Commons back toward the dorms. Having done so, the Guard’s commanders, Generals Sylvester Del Corso and Robert …

… as they have from the furor last summer triggered by comments about Beijing’s human rights record made by Bob Costas during his coverage of the … for the company’s image and Beijing deserves much of the credit for this. You just can’t buy p.r. any better than …

… Moon, el presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, y el comandante supremo de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de … ahora estarían listos para formalmente firmar el acuerdo completo el 26 de septiembre de 2016 en Cartagena que seria … durante su existencia, pero ninguno ha llegado tan lejos como el proceso actual. A pesar de que haya obstáculos …

… Sankara led a coalition of radical military officers, communist activists, labor leaders, and militant students to … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and Welcome to Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, … a vehicle for raising people's consciousness, inspiring the records of social transformation and creating a new self …

… one requiring an almost obsessive attention to detail, a commitment to exacting measurements, and above all a patient … to measure accurately a degree of latitude at the equator. Comparing it with another measurement of latitude made in … of adventurers, officers, and scientists were assembled to complete a task intended to take only three years. Instead, …

… to start with: What do Americans fund every year at levels comparable to annual budget of the Pentagon? Answer: the … to be an enormous enterprise; and second, we don't have a comprehensive sense of its history. Until now. Philanthropy … that grew into the University of Pennsylvania, the Library Company and the American Philosophical Society, all of which …

… great paradox. With its fast-growing economy, China has become the leading producer of CO2 (though not on a per-capita basis). Simultaneously, it has become the world's leading producer of green and renewable … environment, and what global role China might play in the coming years in confronting climate change. ( Image Source ) …

… by universal laws of science and nature. But the historical record suggests otherwise. If we “decolonize” modern … and the future. Different Truths to Live By Every human community tells its own stories about the ultimate order of … Together, such stories end up producing something like a common-sense knowledge of the foundations of reality, a …

… Bolivian Atacama region, mainly led by Chilean and British companies. The mineral was used both as a fertilizer and in … and subjecting them to discrimination for decades to come. Though usually overlooked in claims of Hispanization, Indigenous communities were also robust, adding Cunza, Aymara, and …