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… Now that the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic … of the trial, prosecutor Carla del Ponte insisted that his was not a political trial. Milosevic countered with a … more a claim than reality. The alleged new era began when courts in The Hague, Spain, Belgium and the United …

… “No more Munichs,” President Bush warned at the November ceremony in Lithuania marking the latest round … into a conflagration engulfing the entire continent. When Austria moved to attack Serbia, Russia mobilized … it harder to extricate their countries from the conflict when their initial strategies went awry. The ruinous …

… or Meiji Ishin, occurred on January 3, 1868, and marked the return of the Japanese emperor to a position of power … time in more than 500 years.  The Restoration happened when a coalition of powerful pro-reform forces led a palace … of the Tokugawa and handover to the new Meiji regime was swift and largely peaceful, resulting in the …

… When Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated as America's third president in 1801, he noted that the American experiment in democracy had passed a crucial … of Stravinsky. Stolypin's policies led Vladimir Lenin to conclude that his generation might not even see the …

… Central Asia may be the most important part of the world we know the least … of Russian imperialism, like in other European colonies, was the exploitation of natural resources. Raw materials … of ecological disasters. The Soviet Legacy in Central Asia When the Central Asian states were thrust into independence …

… Gunshots? Or was it fireworks? When I saw a man running for his life, I immediately knew the answer. "COME IN!" someone was yelling. I need not have …

… This years Veterans Day comes in the wake of fierce political campaigning over which policies … for their country overseas. The divisive war in Iraq was what drove this fall’s march of troops through dueling … wordless rituals began four score and seven years ago, when President Wilson asked Americans to observe two minutes …

… Paul Ryan? A recent CNN poll indicated that more than half the country doesn’t know enough about him to form an … the job before accepting Mitt Romney’s invitation.   Adams was not alone in his views of the vice presidency. Many of … keeper Martin J. Dooley, perhaps captured the office best when he said that the vice presidency was “not a crime …

… Explanations of the Heaven’s Gate suicides now blame everything from comets … among us, as commentator David Gelernter put it. Perhaps when we have finished scapegoating we might look more … gullibility in the novel “The Confidence-Man” (1857). It was the story of a Mississippi riverboat crook who left …

… On June 12, the Supreme Court ruled that Clarence E. Hill, a Florida … right to challenge the lethal injection procedure the state was planning to use on him. The Court's decision was … for the victim and a crisis of conscience for society when the government kills a human being. By trying to invent …

… On a summer day in August 1920, in the middle of war , a group of Ukrainians performed Macbeth . They had been in Kyiv, but the city was destroyed, dangerous, and barely supported life, let … most books on Soviet culture focus only on Moscow (or Leningrad), assuming that everything else is secondary. It …

… A 1945 poster quoting the opening line of the preamble of the United Nations … a new set of international institutions. U.S. participation was vital to this project because no international … to fill the position it ignored a generation earlier when politicians had rejected participation in the League of …

… Since April 2016, members of the Great Sioux Nation have been protesting, through … line) and the original pipeline route (dashed line) that was changed due to concerns over drinking water in Bismarck. … U.S. Supreme Court affirmed this position as early as 1832, when in Worcester vs. Georgia it grounded the Cherokees’ …

… about it. He is front and center in Ron Suskind’s book, “The Price of Loyalty,” an insider account of the Bush … has become an extension of the presidency itself. Adams was not alone in his views of the vice presidency. Many of … keeper Martin J. Dooley, perhaps captured the office best when he said that the vice presidency was “not a crime …

… On Sunday [May 5], France goes to the polls for one of the most critical elections in decades. … right’s agenda became state policy in the late 1930s when the conservative republican government decreed the … power in 1940 following France’s defeat by the Germans, it was not led by fringe political figures, but by men who …

… and fair political elections after colonization squashed by the ascension of dictators and the onset of one-party rule … and attempts to nationalize major industries along socialist lines. The eminent political scientist argues here … portions of The Postcolonial State in Africa arrives when Young grapples with the question of why African states, …

… We face a paradox in Iraq: the longer we stay, the stronger our enemies become. We … the Iraqis we came to save. A corrupt Iraqi government wastes the billions we have allocated for rebuilding, while … believed Iraqis would greet the British as liberators. But when he tried to build a unified Iraq, experts warned …

… The chair of the House Government Reform Committee, Tom … represents a moral McCarthyism that seems to be sweeping Washington. One polling firm, the Rasmussen Reports, found … players. Stengel frustrated and amused hearing participants when he used his famous double talk to baffle legislators. …

… In March 1941, the United States remained neutral while World War II raged in Europe and Asia , but the country was inching toward war. Newspapers announced policies to … defeat the Nazis, only to become the program’s sole success when German agents murdered the scientist leading the …

… a stunned General Charles Cornwallis announces toward the end of "The Patriot," the Revolutionary War epic … to play an English folk tune "The World Turned Upside Down" when he surrendered to Washington at Yorktown in 1781. Like the United States in …

… Few would argue that when the United States joined the fight against Nazi Germany it … of many countries with racist legislation, and that there was, therefore, no direct connection between the Nazi laws …

… Four young men have accused the leader of one of the largest churches in the country of … the sexual assault of a black man does become news. In 1997 when Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant living in Brooklyn, was sodomized with a broken broom handle by police officers, …

… It was a sunny market day in late April 1937, around 4:30 in the afternoon, when the incendiary bombs started falling. By the time the …

… December 6, 1922, Ireland’s struggle for independence from the United Kingdom reached a turning point. With the … in Ireland since the late 1100s, this political division was the consequence of a cultural differentiation that began … against England, which had only just been suppressed when King James I ascended the throne in 1603.  James then …