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… concern about the war’s impact on global agricultural commodity markets: the disruption to Ukrainian agricultural … and to the food security of developing countries.   While one would expect an organization such as the FAO to be … currently cultivated, an area larger than Italy, making it one of the most highly cultivated countries in the world. It …

… Ebbets Field. He also embarked on a painful odyssey that pioneered the modern civil rights movement, and he gave major … jeopardize the process of integration. He was, by nature, a combative individual, so he had to struggle to restrain … he received death threats and endured racial slurs, and in one of the lowest moments in baseball history the …

… part of Georgia, unrecognized until recently by anyone in the international community. It has its own government, though largely staffed … and its security is assured by Russian troops stationed in the region, erroneously described as "peacekeepers." …

… The holiday season is a time of giving to loved ones. It can also be a time of giving to those unseen or … Food supplies were devastated, and recovery would not come easily. The American Relief Administration, led by … starving children in war-torn Europe. Hoover asked everyone to feed an “invisible guest” at Christmas. A series of …

… spread to the Spanish conflict. Robles went to his death a committed Stalinist, but to shroud the reality of the … fame and philandering was rather apolitical, but he positioned himself on the left with the Spanish Republic during … as the intellectual superior of the two, but also as someone who is confoundedly naïve about the horrific excesses of …

… baseball.  Then, he went where no white Hall of Famer had gone before. He pleaded, “I hope that someday, the names of … too frequently heard, “if only you were white,” as a compliment to their skills, but also as a reality check that … who cared that day, Williams’s words struck a chord. As one sportswriter put it, Williams “put his finger on the …

… easily between historical periods, and languages. Her command of her own discipline, political theory, and other … a more capacious understanding of political theory than one defined in terms of a parochial mapping of Western … organizational approach makes sense, but at times leaves one to wonder how a broader attention to historical context …

… in a workshop where the featured guest made an impassioned argument for answer C.  The collapse of the Soviet … read the newspaper on a semi-regular basis.  China is positioned much like the United States was at the turn of the last … in the Cold War — it drove decision-making within the communist bloc through the 1950s.  For Lüthi, alternative …

… Supreme Court ruled that Clarence E. Hill, a Florida prisoner facing execution, had a constitutional right to … procedure — is counter-productive. It's impossible to completely humanize an execution. There's always suffering … barbiturate that's supposed to anesthetize the prisoner. The second is a neuro-muscular blocker that causes …

… didn't move beyond their own self interest and embrace a common good. He called on Americans to unify themselves … words, "human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns." Good leadership requires tough talk like this; it …

… a crucial test. Power had been transferred peacefully from one president to the next after a bitter electoral campaign. … to the rules of the Constitution, all will … unite in common efforts for the common good," he proclaimed. Two … government" that would "restrain men from injuring one another" but "leave them otherwise free to regulate …

… in silence as the defendants filed into the dock. Everyone stood as the four main judges and their alternates … carried the judgement in a thick folder, which drew everyone’s attention. This was the day everyone had waited for … from its worst impulses—how to create a new international community based on “respect for the human person” and belief …

… The dramatic images of the descamisados , or shirtless ones, marching through the streets and hundreds of thousands … for nothing less than a total redefinition of the social compact. Peronism permeated and penetrated all aspects of … Edelmiro Farrell (left) and the Vice President and Colonel Juan Perón, in April 1945. Nevertheless, allies of …

… is likely to run again. So relevant "experience" is hard to come by.This presidential season, everybody is talking about … nation's arguably favorite president, Abraham Lincoln. As a one-term backbench congressman, Lincoln had less relevant … has it, and of the two vice presidential contenders, one has none and the other has little. George W. Bush had …

… over the trajectory of the on-going American military commitment in Iraq and Afghanistan has combined with … about conflict termination are outnumbered a thousand to one by works on the manner in which wars are waged and won. … of a starting point. war , n , – organized, socially sanctioned armed violence employed by opposing groups against one …

…  They are always fighting the last war.  Generals aren’t alone.   In the wake of the debt-ceiling debacle, freshman … party favorite and a new member of the Congressional Super Committee, wrote an op-ed in which he said that “excessive … the last economic war.  And we are losing the current one as a consequence.   In order to understand this long …

… During the early years of the Cold War, Dean Acheson, one of the architects of American foreign policy, concluded … today as American leaders assess Osama bin Laden’s latest communication. Bin Laden’s audio-taped message offered both … we can assume that his capabilities and his intentions are one and the same. If he’s capable of mounting an attack, he …

… fall of 1890, administration of the Pine Ridge Reservation, one of six Sioux Reservations in South Dakota, fell to … asked Big Foot, leader of the Minneconjou Teton Sioux, to come to Pine Ridge Reservation with his followers in hopes … peace. Intercepted by the Seventh Cavalry commanded by Colonel James W. Forysth on December 28, Big Foot's band made …

… they have attained and the jobs they have found. In one New York Times story, a protester in his 30s told a … made it impossible for them to get married. Many others complained of low pay and underemployment. While the … profile to those who are demonstrating now.  But here is one important difference: In the late 1940s many university …

… American Revolution , and the Early American Republic. This compilation gathers together some of his important essays … developed into a stable, Protestant, constitutional one. In the final analysis, Murrin argues that the clearest … when we consider fragments as a whole. This can only be done by making connections between various historiographical …

… 25, 2012, we celebrate Isaac Newton’s 370 th birthday. On one hand, the man popularly famous for getting hit on the … he stood on the shoulders of giants, so perhaps he’d welcome the gift.   Newton is famous for Principia Mathematica … to maintain their symmetry . Perhaps the best analogy is one of a Hollywood party described by the Exploratorium here …

… cradle or poured the tea did not rule the world, and everyone knew it. But “lady,” the word, as well as idea, has … women of all classes and races know a lady when we see one. She combines a highly attuned sense of others’ needs with an …