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… to Christmas, head over to the local Wal-Mart. The company’s promise of “everyday low prices” is music to the … For better or worse, we’re living in a Wal-Mart World. The company now produces an astonishing 2.3 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. Last year, Wal-Mart sold a record $1.43 billion the day after Thanksgiving. This …

… the bomb without igniting a major war. Even more worrisome is the catastrophic possibility that Bush will form … Bush administration has wisely allowed the international community to take the lead in responding to the threat from … have been halting but still hold promise. Recently, European Union officials discussed diplomatic and economic …

… from the King Estate for $20,000,000, it is time to recall some of the obscure people, particularly hardworking … women, who saved the church that nurtured him and composed the movement whose spokesman he became. King was … to offer it. Two years after King's birth, his grandfather died and his father became the pastor of Ebenezer. During …

… John F. Kennedy’s escapades, Eisenhower’s alleged liaison during World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s with Lucy … married in the 1790s before her divorce had officially become final. He won the election anyway, but she died of a stress-induced heart attack before he began his …

… would eliminate filibusters to prevent legislation from coming to the floor for debate, while retaining filibusters … abounded after the raucous campaign in which Jefferson defeated John Adams for president in 1800, but that's … the Senate as Jefferson's vice president from 1801-1805 recommended dropping in an effort to simplify Senate rules. …

… even at the risk of confrontation with the international community. In persuading the Iranian government to be more … benefits. This earned the bitterness of the Iranians and sowed the seeds of Islamic fundamentalism. Since then, the … War, the United States believed that it faced the threat of communist expansion in the developing world. Iran looked …

… In this segment of our episode on infrastructure and public investment in the United … Tom Smith, the Executive Director of the American Society of Civil Engineers, who describes the current state … Tom Smith   Sure. And by the way, the next report card will come out in 2017. What we do is we look at 16 categories of …

… deny gays and lesbians the right to marry, with Florida also choosing to deny both heterosexual and homosexual couples … They had learned lessons from their own history both in Europe and the American colonies.   Puritan New England … religiously intolerant regimes in the world today.   The outcome of the recent referendum in California shows us that …

… narrative says technology is to blame—that after mainframe computers burst onto the scene in the middle of the … fragmented sloppily across digital tape, could never die; that the notion of an inescapable past was somehow … through comprehensive “omnibus” legislation that resembles Europe’s General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR), and by …

… the global economy. This conversation has raised uncomfortable questions about contemporary businesses and … their profits, which advanced the interests of American and European firms, but proved to be a disadvantage for African … created a government-sanctioned monopoly for the West-Indies and empowered slave-trading states in West Africa.” If …

… "Introduction to Solid State Chemistry," "Introduction to Computer Science and Programming," "Quantitative Methods in … should assume that Santorum was trying to score political points with his base by equating "college" with "liberal …

… One of the most beautiful parts of the former Soviet Union—Nagorno-Karabakh—has recently been scarred by … historical monuments and churches.  Sadly, it has become the center of a major feud between Armenians and … citizen even boasted of the low unemployment in Karabakh compared to neighboring Armenia. Nagorno-Karabakh is home to …

… unremarkable, the transformations in Japanese politics, society, and economy seen over the next two decades were … ruling elite traveled to the United States and Western Europe for over a year on study tours to observe conditions … Assistance.  “As the first non-Western nation to become a developed country, Japan built itself into a country …

… of “violence.” Pekka Hämäläinen made an argument that the Comanche past constituted an “empire.” Benjamin Madley, … nation.” Despite this complexity, the author sticks to this Euro-American construct to frame his study, in part “because … of scholarship typically based in African diasporic studies, Conrad’s use of the term highlights the long history …

… bonanza, the government was able to spend more money (in absolute terms) from 1974 to 1979 than in its entire … in the last year on what people are calling “ the Maduro Diet ,” a scathing reference to current president Nicolás … in 2016. Diphtheria, once thought eradicated, has made a comeback . By some estimates, 2.5 million people have left …

… Howard Dean’s current bid to chair the Democratic National Committee is a test case of his political viability. It’s … amplification than of the offending event itself. Extra points are given if there’s a widespread sense that the … consumption, but originally directed at a much smaller audience. Several politicians provide excellent examples of …

… that day, Desmond became the target of a racist incident, a common event for Blacks in Canada. Her decision to challenge … the past—and present—of anti-Black racism in Canada, but also of the heroism and dignity with which Black Canadians … and a public opinion survey on the Bank of Canada website is indicative of a willingness to acknowledge a …

…  Barack Obama ought to do the same. How should he do so?  He should ask Congress to approve an economic stimulus … to think about the balance between individual wants and common goals.   What was the effect of Carter's speech? Some … a collective goal.   In Iraq and Afghanistan, American soldiers a minority among thheir generation — are fighting two …

… Barack Obama ought to do the same.   How should he do so? He should ask Congress to approve an economic stimulus … to think about the balance between individual wants and common goals.   What was the effect of Carter’s speech? Some … a collective goal.   In Iraq and Afghanistan, American soldiers a minority among their generation — are fighting two …

… indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul." Two days later, John Foster Dulles and Methodist … Hiroshima, the personal pilot of General Douglas MacArthur, commander of Allied forces in the Pacific, recorded in his … In 1963 President Eisenhower, the Allied commander in Europe during World War II, recalled, as he did on several …

… would make this grab for territory morally different from European imperialism, which he condemned. Bush and his … history of foreign occupation, Iraqi civilians would welcome U.S. troops as liberators. Most Iraqis, like most … Service and a doctoral student in history and security studies at Yale. E-mail:  jmankoff@yahoo.com . …

… able to move their lives onto virtual networks have done so. The COVID-19 pandemic has bifurcated the world of work. … other business carried out virtually over Zoom. The theater company, Gemini CollisionWorks, gathers most of its 22 … working remotely as they were banded together in an office. Companies might therefore continue to allow employees to …