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… Le Duan and Le Duc Tho, the police state they and their comrades built in the North to solidify their power and … divided into four parts, with two chapters per part. Part One, "The Path to Revolutionary War," follows the early … workings and diplomacy of the North Vietnamese government, one of Nguyen's goals is to demonstrate the influence that …

… and legacy. Women, on the other hand, struggled to comes to terms with their infertility in large part because … correlated to ‘mortal sins’ like lust and gluttony. In one illuminating example Oren-Magidor offers, Nicholas … and cures for infertility in “Explaining Infertility” is one such example of this. In the section “Magical …

… scandal. Frustrated by a few unrepentant prelates, Keating compared their conspiratorial behavior to that of the Mafia. … bishops, Keating’s sharp tongue cut especially deep. In one instance, he publicly admonished Cardinal Roger Mahoney of Los Angeles for “listening too much to his lawyer …

… Defeating the Taliban and al-Qaida is only one part of the struggle to build peace in Pakistan. … and preposition food for this emergency, all the while combating the Nazi war machine. None of the allies’ heroics in the Netherlands could have …

… While 2018 marked the one-hundredth anniversary of the November Revolution, the debate over what historians have called the failed, incomplete, and even the forgotten revolution has been revived … into the context of other socialist revolutions is one of the strongest elements of the book. By doing so, he …

… as the president, claim it’s necessary for “getting things done.” Yet instead of efficiency we have gridlock.   In … Fathers designed it to have, while working against true compromise. That’s bad not just for Democrats, but for … whole.   Obama’s conciliatory impulses, mind you, are good ones. When James Madison prepared a plan for the …

… economic distress wrought by swashbuckling capitalism. As Commanders-in-Chief and liberal Protestants, the … they even threatened the capital, Tripoli. Flush with oil money, Qaddafi employed sophisticated armaments to crush and … for "leading from behind.") Transforming a French "no-fly zone" resolution into a UN-sanctioned military intervention, …

… on the Supreme Court, appears before the Senate judiciary committee. Obama raised the subject when he identified “that … greater to be human.”) fit Warren. Nixon praised Warren as “one who has held high office in this Nation, but one who, in holding that office, always had the humanity …

… United States. The press, the government, and the medical community claim, often and loudly, that these numbers augur … its related expenses. Neither of these conclusions was foregone; both were expedient answers to social and political … plan. In his proposal, the unemployed would receive money from a central pool funded by employee and employer …

… needed to be examined more closely or nullified and redone. Indeed, the historical record is full of cases in which … devoted to contested elections. When elections were questioned, common sense, rather than adherence to technicality, …

… Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which freed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on election campaigns, greatly compromises the … before the law, a democratic ideal as old as the Greeks and one that suffered a major blow in the Citizens United …

… Within fifteen years, Enron executives transformed their company from a middling firm into the seventh-largest … who ran those companies–the executives and their pals–big money for their services. They were following a familiar … stock and collected dividends without investing their own money. One hundred fifty years later, savings and loan …

… signed after  WWI , the Treaty of Lausanne was the only one negotiated and, perhaps more importantly, it is the only … Ottoman rule for centuries. The Balkan Wars saw atrocities committed against civilians on a massive scale. The … Eleftherios Venizelos negotiated for Greece to obtain a zone of occupation around Smyrna/Izmir. Meanwhile, Ottoman …

… Jews have been observing Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, every year at this season for two and a half … All of those meanings are now reflected in the Jewish community’s ambivalent view of the Middle East conflict. … if Jews confess that they, as well as Palestinians, have done wrong and must atone, it could mark a major step toward …

… of World War I, there was little public notice, let alone public discussion, of the new weapons systems. Only … which plan to test the next generation of bombs on computers rather than under the ground. But who’s paying … much more. We already have more destructive power than any one nation, or even the world as a whole, could possibly …

… increasingly think it’s time for major steps, not baby ones, to improve relations. That means, end the embargo. So … the Cold War was at its peak, and the Soviet Union had become Cuba’s patron, pouring billions annually into its … is nil. Even in his heyday he never ignited a successful one outside Cuba. But in 1996 he handed U.S. hardliners a …

… prohibits all military activity? The unlikely source of common ground lies in the Antarctic Treaty of 1959. This … 1980s and thus pledged to honor the nuclear weapons-free zone status of the Antarctic. Today, a nuclear weapons-free … nuclear capabilities in return for disarming. But no one trusts that nation’s government to keep its nuclear …

… and Washington, the news media are now brimming with comparisons of alcohol to marijuana prohibition and “lessons … the idea that possession and use of intoxicating drinks in one’s home was a constitutionally guaranteed personal … of profound uncertainty about the drug’s effects. For one thing, legislators accepted the reasoning that marijuana …

… from the Internet. Once again, the Internet has become the target of law makers who seek a simple remedy for … blaming the Internet for terrorist bomb making is that no one has ever sufficiently demonstrated that the Web is any … to set up bomb-making schools from New York to St. Louis. One of their members, a liquor salesman who went by the …

… Swat, Pakistan, where he was pursuing a graduate degree in computer engineering. He left seven months ago because he … a thousand new border hunters deployed solely to remove anyone who enters Hungary illegally. The “Balkan Route” in late … to test his luck, Jamil was living in Ciglana, an abandoned brick factory, with 60 other Afghan and Pakistani men. …

… claim being made lately about the ever-advancing Computer Age. After all, cyber-data is easier to store, … natural resources than printed material. Consider that one slender CD-ROM can hold as much information as hundreds … had to be set by hand, and a typical press printed only one page at a time. Books were so expensive that few people …