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… Vietnam analogy is not so much the difficulty of drawing comparisons between two different situations. The problem is … winnable. Just as important, the conflict had created deep divisions within the United States and led to the breakdown … ended that most Americans could look past the bloodshed and divisions caused by the conflict and begin to move toward …

… 2009, with events sponsored by national and state "Lincoln Commissions," and because of the remarkable presidential … like a badge of honor. So now that the Darwin Year has come to a close, I want to review the difficult reception … exhibits a certain degree of variation, he proposed that competition over resources and breeding would tend to favor, …

… th century—the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism throughout Eastern Europe . The opening of the … Wall Memorial that preserves the memory of Berlin’s tragic division ( pictured left, the wall inscribed into the urban … had to cope with lingering psychological and socioeconomic divisions between East and West Germans. And, there is an …

… pluralist implication of the St. Patrick's Day parades becomes more apparent as we look at the events held in cities … this ideal, but it's important to recognize how far we have come.   So when this weekend's St. Patrick's Day parades pay …

… so doing he has tilted against the Constitution.  During a visit to Syracuse, N.Y., late in October, Bush claimed that “state law reigns supreme when it comes to Indians, whether it be gambling or any other … a difficult issue, rather than engaging in the politics of division. That, after all, is what courageous leadership is …

… of battleships that together constituted the Mediterranean division of the German Imperial Navy—opened fire on a … of two Russian ships by a German taskforce under the command of a German admiral improbably marked the entry of … and destroyed an exhausted and overextended Anglo-Indian division under the command of Major-General Charles …

… W. Bush — spanning almost 12 years — has exacerbated the divisions among Americans. Gerald Ford did the opposite when … he appeared before a joint session of Congress and pledged “communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation” with legislators, adding, “I do …

… of Florida, yet American citizens have been restricted from visiting the island for generations. Morro Castle, the … the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: … off from any new American products. The Kennedys no longer visited the Tropicana, the 1950s Ford Fairlane would be one …

… the price of beer per Maß (a Bavarian liter) and to limit competition for cereal grains used to bake bread. A … or Hefeweizen ) survived in spite of the ban on wheat in commercial and private production. The Duke of Wittelsbach, … in the new German Weimar Republic . After the 1949 division of Germany into East and West states, it continued …

… Livingstonia in honor of his mentor. The Gordon Road People visiting Livingstonia travel on the Gordon Road, named after … to drive. During the rainy season, the road's stones become very slippery, making transportation difficult. The … a good number of nurses are Malawians, with only few visiting doctors from abroad. Since DGMH is a small …

… rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … trustee critical of Brand's action invoked a pointed comparison: "President Truman fired General MacArthur.  … "his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." He visited New York City, where 7.5 million people gathered to …

… U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … has had a murky, even “schizophrenic,” view of its commitment to the world’s dispossessed. Although the United … circumstances, wishing to return home. Eleanor Roosevelt visits Hungarian Freedom Fighters in Salzburg, Austria, …

… the course of Christianity and western civilization. Commemorative Playmobil figure of Martin Luther. But to stop … from the Holy Roman Emperor. Map illustrating the political division of Europe in 1519. The confluence of this situation … moral people than the Catholic Spaniards. These Christian divisions shaped arguments supporting slavery and also, …

… birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), … Persia. The Jewish and Arabic traditions relate Alexander's visit to Jerusalem and his founding of cities. In the Jewish … by swearing to obey Jehovah. Yet the story of Alexander's visit to Jerusalem is certainly fiction, and he did not at …

… Itzá, one of the central and sacred sites of the empire, visitors can both see and hear representations of two … Site. It stands as a vast historical source that enables visitors to glimpse the spiritual world, the scientific … Indigenous Communities …

… Until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the combination of new technology with the "classically liberal" … the years before World War I was most remarkable for combining expanding trade, growth, and industrialization … of state power oriented toward global military and economic competition.  Until 1873, when a newly united Germany …

… Trump held up Carrier, an air conditioning and heating company, as a symbol of the plight of American … by free trade deals that hurt American workers. The company had planned to close an Indiana plant that makes … Trans-Pacific Partnership ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to the state for a fundraiser. The figures depicted …

… and religious images get out of hand: ‘he must be for all companies, and all men’s money.’” To the lay and scholastics … 16th century. In Part Two, Marshall continues to explicate divisions within the English Church that began with the … the Reformation under Henry VIII required “pluralism and division,” and this “opened a Pandora’s Box of plurality” of …

… of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere—organizations that had come out of gay-father activism of the 1980s—wrote a brief … from their ex-spouses in order to keep their children or visitation rights. There were still dangers involved in … courts, judges’ rationale for denying custody and even visitation rights to lesbian mothers and gay fathers was …

… devoid of animal or plant life. This initial isolation, combined with its location at the confluence of three … that strikes me with wonder.” Even before Darwin’s visit, however, human beings had begun to shape the … as many as 200,000 tortoises may have been killed. On his visit, Darwin reported that two or three hundred people …

… that “judicious conduct,” in the best sense of those words, comes from judges insulated from popular emotions. The … has occurred when, and only when, judicial peers recommended a judge’s removal. What DeLay and the others … By contrast, DeLay’s proposal would stir bitter partisan division and increase the rancor of American politics. …

… put the entire  global economy in disarray and for years to come. Estimates of possible losses differ, but they are in … of China (ROC) that had been wrecked by decades of internal divisions, foreign incursions, and social upheavals.  The … The split opened the door for Richard Nixon’s historic visit to the PRC in late February 1972, a trip facilitated …