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… the United States to use its troops more unilaterally, and he wants them used primarily for fighting. Vice … Gore is more inclined to act cooperatively with allies and to use troops for peacekeeping. This difference revives … Europe and assume the right to unilateral action in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Now that the Cold War is gone, …

… across the nation this year. New York, Pennsylvania and California city officials cut back on observances of the holiday, citing waning interest and declining participation.   Veterans Day is in fact a … Vietnam. He voluntarily came out of retirement to serve in Southeast Asia. He posthumously earned the last Silver Star …

… off as nothing more than a return to the original understanding of the amendment. Yet this revisionist interpretation has nothing to do with the original understanding of the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment adopted … that the Patriots lost the American Revolution, or the South won the Civil War. For better or worse, the real …

… David Hoffmann examines some key moments in recent Russian and Ukrainian history, with particular attention to the … the North Caucasus, as you can see on the map, far to the south of Moscow. It's a region inhabited by Chechens, a … Russia invaded Georgia. It drove Georgian troops out of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two separatist regions within …

… of camps — massive structures surrounded by watch towers and barbed wire — sprang up to swallow a significant … it also brought under its control the predominantly Muslim southern region.  The Zunghars were competitors of the Qing … protest the killings of Uyghur migrant workers in a town in south China by a Han mob and to seek justice for the …

… Penfield Jackson has ordered Microsoft broken in two, and the appeal has gone to the Supreme Court. Why is … Because for two centuries Americans have hated political and economic bullies. "Free competition" has always been our … and donated huge sums to churches, universities and rural African-American schools. His PR campaign failed as …

… Once again Congress has debated and, at least for the moment, defeated a proposed … would indeed have seemed odd to the nation’s founders and to the great congressional leaders of the nineteenth … — Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri — stayed in …

… York University. The exhibit ran through April 25, 2010, and the objects on display are appearing in the United … ). It is a collaborative project between the Institute and over 20 museums in Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova, the … three, "Houses, Households, Villages and Proto-Cities in Southeastern Europe" by John Chapman, presents an overview …

… Nor is it any easier if we break it down: thirty thousand children each day; more than one thousand every hour. … 22% of all foreign-born adopted children have come from South Korea, and 28% of those under six have come from China … of Black Social Workers condemned the placement of African-American children with white parents, whether for …

… When the Roman Catholic Patriarch of the Holy Land Michel Sabbah celebrates mass in the Church of the … in Bethlehem this Christmas Eve, events in the town and region will have changed dramatically from where they … via Israel’s Mediterranean ports, freeing up Israel’s southern port of Elat for expansion of tourist hotels. …

… experiencing a new round of Israeli-Palestinian violence. And a peaceful resolution to this decades-long conflict … mutually exclusive hostilities have appeared in Cyprus, South Africa, and Sri Lanka in recent years. One analyst estimated …

… Delaware Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell's recent comment–wondering whether “separation of church and state” is “in the First Amendment”–raises a serious … combination of state legislation and local option. In the South establishment meant supporting the Church of England …

… against terrorists, it also is setting up an Office of Homeland Security. Questions are being raised about how that … the nation. In their past wartime experiences with “homeland defense,” Americans ended up damaging their democratic … arrested and jailed. Pacifist clergy members were jailed. African Americans were targeted unfairly. This domestic …

… Bush is mindful of growing difficulties with public opinion and an ailing economy, problems that could soon make war … unworkable.  A crescendo of protests against war and disturbing news about a flagging economy are undermining … consequences of large-scale military involvement in Southeast Asia took time to build. Problems with inflation …

… (No. 63) warned that “the people” were dangerously unstable and easily duped. They were likely to make bad choices when … best remedy would be “the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens,” the disinterested few who … clearly the loser, became the winner when he promised Southern Democrats he would to jettison the gains blacks had …

… the phrase "under God" violated the separation of church and state and interfered with a father's control of his child's … program for protecting newly freed slaves and readmitting Southern states to be unconstitutional. The editor argued …

… Court this week, senators should consider her legal ability and constitutional vision, but also her capacity to be an … judges invariably have had close association with wealthy and powerful people. Those relationships dispose them to … of the Equal Protection Clause because it created in African-American children a “feeling of inferiority as to …

… of Sept. 11, 2001. Annin & Co., the nation’s largest and oldest flag-maker, reports that sales are still 25 … percent above normal as Americans continue to fly the Stars and Stripes from their front porches and cars. Grandiose … by smaller, underdeveloped nations in the Caribbean and South America. There, the United States impeded nationalist …

… How and what we eat defines who we are. Food is both everywhere … several parts of the world, Australasia to a lesser extent South Africa, Argentina, certainly, even Denmark, and Canada. And …

… new television documentaries, stage elaborate recreations, and release new books that reflect upon the current state of … of the settlement of Jamestown, the first of England's colonial projects in North America to survive … others around the world as the English sought to cut into African and Asian trades, and aided efforts to fight back …

… As campaign 2000 moves past the conventions, Ralph Nader, candidate of the Green Party, is again in the limelight. Some … reports predicted that La Follette would carry Wisconsin and possibly 12 northwestern states. Journalists forecast … the support of many well known and admired activists, from African-American leader W.E.B Du Bois to conservationist …

… In April and May 2018, the small nation of Armenia experienced a … August 17, one hundred days after the upheaval’s end, thousands of Armenians—young and old, workers and … of the Caucasus Mountains, Armenia is situated on the southwestern extremity of the former Soviet Union. Located …

… away from his comments after his Republican opponents and the press jumped all over him. Perry now finds himself … a “Ponzi scheme” captured the media’s attention, hurt his standing in the polls, and provided an opening for his … 61 percent of the vote and every state except five Deep South states and Goldwater’s home state of Arizona. …

… the centennial of the war, U.S. events have been few and far between. Why is the war remembered so differently in … wars, in fact, where they were fighting, you know, in Africa and East Asia and things like this. And the firepower … and see the ways in which these same issues took place. South Eastern Europe had similar wheeling than dealings. The …