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… Because of its indeterminacy?  No. Its singular distinction comes from the fact that never before have both the popular … the same as 75 percent can thwart the popular will when one candidate garners the requisite number of electoral … votes in states that are evenly divided while the opponent overwhelming carries his or her states. Election 2000 …

… America Pageant. As early as the 1880s, business owners and community leaders began organizing beauty pageants in … Girls on View in Pageant: 150,000 See Picked Beauties in One-Piece Suits in Atlantic City’s Fall Event.” This “fall … on a television network. Given their tenuous hold on TV audiences, one could argue that beauty pageants harken back to …

… understandings of how disease is transmitted within the community. As a general rule, respirators function by … humidity of lowland Bengal took a physical toll on the soldiers and officials of the East India Company. Upon … had “the property of making all the air that goes down one’s throat as warm as summer air.” Despite its odd look …

… convictions of our founders. “No standing armies” was one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution. This … of the military later found expression in the Posse Comitatus law of 1878, still in force. Archaic as the title … framers of the U.S. Constitution remembered how British soldiers served as police in 1770. Untrained in police work, …

… and a staggering landmark in human population growth combined to give new urgency to the existential question of … 250,000 years ago, as evidenced by significant shifts in stone tool technology and the "modernization" of fossil … warm Classical antiquity, a cold Dark Ages, a warm Medieval Regime, and a cold Hallstatt- driven Little Ice …

… in Polish-Jewish history. After years of controversies and compromises, the final product represents the dedicated … murdered between 1939 and 1945, the museum tells the full one thousand year history of Jews in Poland, when Poland was … Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a professor of performance studies at New York University, who was appointed to as the …

… Bush claimed that “state law reigns supreme when it comes to Indians, whether it be gambling or any other … is confronted with land claim suits filed by the Cayugas, Oneidas and Senecas precisely because it purchased land … area and, recently, in the death threats issued against the Oneida Indians by a group calling itself the “United States …

… “If our bombs are so ‘smart,’ how come they’re always hitting refugees, hospitals and … my initial enthusiasm for the air war. “So,” asserted one young woman who sports a counterculture image, … the American record during the Holocaust. “We should have done something earlier and not refused to accept boatloads of …

… was upgrading the recent outbreak of H1N1 influenza, more commonly known as "swine flu," to a global pandemic. … relatively mild 1968 outbreak, which still killed nearly one million people worldwide. An even more worrying memory … young adults, those between 18 and 40, were most likely to die of influenza. The greatest strength of this book is the …

… Congress in Adelaide, Australia. Musk spoke about his company's plans for interplanetary travel and his belief in … as a multi-planet species . His proposed first stop: Mars—sooner and cheaper than might be expected. In front of the assembled international audience of space enthusiasts and industry leaders, Musk …

… abysmal human rights record. Jiang and other Chinese Communist Party officials countered that Americans are too … than protecting the nation. In the 1940s, as in 1989, a one-party regime used talk of outside conspiracies and … for Americans to make the case for tolerance to Chinese audiences: by stressing how much the official measures now …

… Do the police reify inequality by targeting low-income communities of color or are they the “thin blue line” … report “the last gasp of 1960s liberalism." Chapters One through Six of Separate and Unequal plum the origins of … telling: Mayor of New York City John Lindsay anchored one pole and businessman Charles “Tex” Thornton the other. …

… promise to Germany’s working class that stood out as one of the few tangible victories of Weimar democracy, was … of steering a beleaguered nation through these crises. Just one month later, as “vigilante” assassinations and political … nation, Bavaria appointed Gustav Ritter von Kahr as State Commissioner General ( Generalstaatskommissar ), granting …

… for religious practices, including human sacrifices. If anyone is up for the challenge, you are welcome to climb up the steps. However, you should consider the … the Aztecs to leave their home and look for a new one. They would know the location of their new lands when …

… financial titans who amassed riches while pushing their companies and the American economy over the cliff. But will … suggest that greed, as Gordon Gekko claimed in Oliver Stone’s film, “Wall Street,” is “good.”   In the current … They view even the arrogant ones, like Donald Trump, as superstars.   America’s gospel of success goes back to the …

… candidate Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio won the election with one more electoral vote than Tilden after Republicans … With charges of fraud flying, Congress set up an electoral commission to settle the issue of who would be the next president. The commissioners were supposed to be like the original Electors: …

… In 1985, it seemed the Soviet Union would last forever. Its Communist Party rulers held a monopoly on political power. … no possibility that the Soviet Union would change, let alone disappear. Conservative commentators postulated that the … of Eastern Europe —land won by the blood of Soviet soldiers in World War II —as tantamount to treason. They …

… “社会使命”（ misiones sociales ） 计划，为穷人提供卫生、教育和食品补贴等国家服务。 根据联合国 “人类发展指数”，2006 … 此外，由于外汇管制，私人公司不能进口所需的原材料。由于进口原材料的困难，普利司通（Bridgestone）、克利奥克（Clorox）、通用磨坊（General Mills）等跨国公司已经退出了该国市场。 在 2016 … “社会使命”（ misiones sociales ） 计划，为穷人提供卫生、教育和食品补贴等国家服务。 根据联合国 “人类发展指数”，2006 … 此外，由于外汇管制，私人公司不能进口所需的原材料。由于进口原材料的困难，普利司通（Bridgestone）、克利奥克（Clorox）、通用磨坊（General Mills）等跨国公司已经退出了该国市场。 在 2016 …

… lockstep with him.   Obama’s choices might also inspire comparisons to Abraham Lincoln. By the beginning of … term most of the rivalry and the rivals themselves were gone.   Lincoln’s initial cabinet members either had sought … war, the Union Party. Some simply disliked or distrusted one another. In those cases, personal differences outweighed …

… Brutal violence is not typically the first thing that comes to mind when observing the artwork of the … this period had emerged, alongside the Low Countries, as one of the wealthiest regions in Europe. Increasing … uncommon for military men (whether they be common foot soldiers or officers) to record their own impressions and …

… Castro y supervisado por el Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas, Ban-Ki Moon, el presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, y el comandante supremo de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de … y el robo. Con el tiempo, las FARC se hizo grandemente dependiente de secuestros como su fuente de ingresos, así como …

… Jane Goodall and Birute Galdikas – three women who would become affectionately known as the “trimates.” Fossey’s … and graduate training in Anthropology, if Fossey was mentioned at all it was only briefly, and the professor quickly … moved on to the less controversial Jane Goodall. Much as one might discuss a relative with an unsavory past, Fossey’s …

… that charts the shift from a formal empire to an informal one. The book’s first twelve chapters cover the formal … to shape the present. This book is intended for a popular audience, but it has extensive archival work behind it. The … both in and outside of the United States. To write this comprehensive history, the author travelled to Alaska, …