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… Charter helped to win World War II and, later, to defeat communism. But that unique alliance is in trouble now … signed the Atlantic Charter at a secret summit on a warship off Newfoundland, declaring in broad terms their joint … but mollified the British by promising crucial support against Germany. Although a British undersecretary for war …

… Now Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., who chairs the Senate committee looking into Clinton’s fund-raising, has joined … to passing a disclosure bill until after Roosevelt had left office. Although Clinton’s own term in office has been … several requests for his testimony, it is unlikely that he will agree to sit at Thompson’s witness table. But then …

… included foreign appointments, the secretary of state's office, and the presidency. Yet, throughout his career, … he spent the majority of his time working as a de facto commercial agent for the wealthy New England merchant … Gray's son in tow. The following year, Gray sent Adams a $30,000 bond to cover expenses. In these turbulent years, the …

… future when “some evil spell” had settled on our communities, when “mysterious maladies swept the flocks of … and gatherers now and then unbalanced nature by killing off too many species or severely diminishing their numbers … of scarcity. Making the earth produce more food seems good for human offspring and for civilization, and surely it …

… drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national politics. The fallout … Praise for Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, offered by Lott, as well as the cabinet members John … such as Lott have invoked the white southern past through “code words” meant to pay homage to the Confederate past …

… resulted in a clear victory for Chile: the once diffuse borderlands among these countries were redrawn in favor of a … Bolivian Atacama region, mainly led by Chilean and British companies. The mineral was used both as a fertilizer and in … tried to expropriate the company’s assets and auction them off, but on the day of the auction, February 14, 1879, …

… he proclaimed that “our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world.” This … in American history. Preaching to his fellow Puritans in 1630, shortly before they landed in Massachusetts, John … a chosen land, has animated much of our history, for both good and ill. In God’s name, his people have declared their …

… the Fourteenth Amendment acted, and Secretary of State William Henry Seward formally announced the ratification on … though they did not allow African Americans to vote or hold office. The third section disqualified anyone who had … too much about it." (Library of Congress) But that did not come to pass. The “no state shall” language was ideally …

… The prominent reformer, Martin Luther boasts the most complex legacy of his contemporaries because of how he … Roper is most concerned with those produced by the workshop of Cranach the Elder. Cranach made Luther the most … fights” Luther found himself embroiled in during the 1530s and 1540s. The author argues that quill fights mimicked …

… A soldier named Tim McVeigh . . . ―Charlie King, The War is Coming Home , 1996 On April 19, 1995, a date fraught with … the umbrella of “White Power.” Leaders like Louis Beam and William Pierce were important in these circles. Most … a new level of White Power animosity toward government officials, even as they resulted in acquittals. By 1983, the …

… protests in Hong Kong that have directly challenged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies and yet have not been … Tiananmen upheaval of 1989. Seeing recent actions this way will help us better understand what makes the government of … treason and censorship laws, they point out, and many local officials seem more concerned now with pleasing the CCP …

… the Cathedral of the Assumption in Moscow’s Kremlin, where 300 years earlier his ancestor, Mikhail Romanov, had been … the Russias.” Services in Moscow capped a series of events commemorating the Romanovs’ tercentenary, in what proved to … tsar in 1598. Warfare, starvation, and disease carried off as much as one-third of the Russian population. The …

… and the ability to bend an entire society’s rules to her will. Her current appellation, Zetian, was her posthumous title. Her official given name was Zhao, a character she created for … the Sui and established the Tang dynasty. He rose to become Minister of Works, giving Wu Zetian an early taste of …

… World Track Championships in Berlin last month, has been unofficially declared intersexed. If she is, it means that she … of intersex bodies have shifted. In the 1920s and 1930s, for example, a person with a female-appearing body … go either way. All it took was the parents’ unwavering commitment toward raising either a boy or a girl, and this …

… Next week, Americans will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1963 March on … to stir the nation after four decades. Yet the black community still struggles to decide whether to follow King’s prophetic tradition or to lead via political office. It’s a difficult choice. Should black leadership …

… the party. In July, when the 186 members of the platform committee meet, they’ll have to write a plank on the war in … American honor. For millions of voters, “honor” was a code word for keeping the nation’s moorings in familiar … suffering in a North Vietnamese prison. He hopes that image will send a clear message: His patriotic wartime fortitude …

… candidates themselves be qualified to serve in the Oval Office, and thus reduces the importance of such traditional … and the technology of the information age meant that comments made anywhere are now instantly transmitted … the election but clearly made success more difficult. And a good choice can be critical — as Jimmy Carter learned in …

… consequences to explain how individual ambition served the common good. It’s not from the benevolence of the butcher, the … ownership as sound social policy, they didn’t intend to set off a race among bankers to issue subprime mortgages to be …

… State pushes for multilateral diplomacy. When retired officials elbow their way into such a conflict, only more … the Carter administration to oppose any pre-emptive strike against Iraq. From 1977 to 1981, Brzezinski positioned … as the voice of prudence, the realpolitik strategic thinker compelled to inform the naive, idealistic newcomers from the …

… the Democratic Party may self-destruct during the coming elections because it’s becoming softer on the war. … never take their constituents’ loyalty for granted. History offers striking examples of the wisdom of candidates taking … supporters of the war can shift loyalties. Candidates will be best served by not trying to second guess their …

… who make up the Religious Right, faith is important when it comes to moral issues such as abortion and homosexual … to bear on many more issues than the Republicans, thus offering the possibility of a much richer religious … such behavior “virtue.” Personal sacrifice for the common good would provide a necessary check to the selfishness that …

… of the self-proclaimed "Terrorist Section" of the People's Will ( Narodnaya Volya ), an underground group which hoped … and which the young Lenin read five times (14).  Lenin's commitment to activism strengthened in college, first at … of the Russian revolutionary in Lenin's time was a world of coded messages, secret knocks, fake passports, and letters …

… on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … pro-Islamic party, of plotting to move Turkey away from its official secular ideology toward a more Islamic path. He … that the canal—which Erdogan says will accommodate 130-160 ships daily compared to around 150 on the …

… panic among many Americans. When John F. Kennedy ran for office in 1960, he had to confront anti-Catholic prejudice … "more faithful" to Israel than the United States. But these comments have drawn a negative reaction from the most blacks … it seems as if many voters want candidates whose beliefs will dictate how they carry out their duties. Of course, it …