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… pot for recreational use. Across the state, celebratory stoners welcomed the New Year by lining up at licensed retailers to buy … in the realm of alternative medicine, and few clinical studies have been conducted to confirm specific claims. After …

… Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republican legislators took unbecomingly large financial contributions from the appreciative … a lobbyist in front of the White House with a barrelful of money, confronted by an elephant angrily shouting: “I’ve told … to be completely captured by his fossil fuel buddies. Eisenhower, in fact, ended up vetoing the deregulation …

… immigration ban. Timely then that veteran religious studies scholar Brian A. Catlos has published an overview of … The reality of the Islamic kingdoms in Iberia was far more complex. Castilian ambassadors attempt to ally themselves … queens, owing to intermarriage with the native population. One Christian ruler even dyed his beard black to conform to …

… the American military stretched to unprecedented limits, one of the most pressing questions in the presidential … a result, thousands of men openly defied draft laws and welcomed prosecution. And tens of thousands evaded the draft by … is slipping. According to one Illinois National Guard soldier in Iraq, the uncertainty of when troops will rotate our …

… ceasefires in 1949 and 1956, they failed to resolve the complex underlying Arab-Israeli controversies over … in Glassboro, New Jersey in an effort to de-escalate superpower tensions that had been aggravated by the war. … Peninsula following the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty. On one hand, Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula in …

… of “violence.” Pekka Hämäläinen made an argument that the Comanche past constituted an “empire.” Benjamin Madley, … was not historically (nor is there in the present day) one overarching Apache ‘tribe’ or nation.” Despite this … of scholarship typically based in African diasporic studies, Conrad’s use of the term highlights the long history …

… hope of providing fresh insight on six days of civil disobedience that brought Los Angeles, California to a standstill … identifies two court decisions as catalysts for the events. One is Judge Joyce Karlin’s minor sentence, which included … distraught business owners next to coverage of families and communities reeling from extrajudicial violence runs …

… conflicts in Vietnam and Afghanistan are very different, one aspect of the Paris Peace Talks at the end of the … shown the agreement, he felt presented with a fait accompli and refused to consent.   Believing that he had been …

… Apple Computer, Inc. has opened an ambitious, brilliant … probably will and should win some awards, but it strikes one false note for those who know the history of the 20th … to play with the fantasy of having him return to lead one last Satyagraha with the Microserfs against the new …

… U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … often clashed with domestic political currents. Porter hones in on refugee aid as a major pillar of U.S. … of private relief campaigns during WWI, however, was the supervisory role taken on by the U.S. government. By 1944, …

… which stand to make hundreds of millions in fees and commissions, and anti-welfare state conservative ideologues, … argue that market-driven private programs are inherently superior to those in the public sector. History should … income, Social Security in the United States has long functioned as a supplementary “safety net.” It is designed to …

… One hundred years ago this month, American movie-going audiences experienced a cinematic spectacular : D. W. … a “Black Empire” in the broken south. Protagonist Austin Stoneman’s mixed-race housekeeper, Lydia Brown, is a temptress …

… 26 of 32 Irish counties received considerable, albeit not complete, independence. The following day, however, six … only just been suppressed when King James I ascended the throne in 1603.  James then encouraged the large-scale … and their relationship with the Protestant minority became one of tense, often confrontational, coexistence. By the …

… and mechanical innovation, and China had already pioneered steel making and gunpowder. Yet by the 15th century … never set. How did these backward ninth-century Europeans accomplish all this? The obvious answer is "science and technology," but there is a more specific answer — one that warms my engineer's heart — and that is numbers. Or …

… for Independence. "Liberty or Death" exemplifies the do-or-die attitude. Surprisingly, Patrick Henry's conduct when he … pregnant chads. An army of lawyers invaded Florida, but none is brandishing automatic weapons, in stark contrast to … to 79. Had Henry chosen to fight, Mason's fears might have come true. The infant nation was fragile. In Massachusetts, …

… the charge went, this crime against the past was being committed by leftist academics out of touch with their … and Records Commission, decided late in 1996, by a one-vote margin, to downgrade its support of the continuing … reverse priorities is another matter. The commission has done so without having conclusively demonstrated that the …

… stay the course in that conflict have taken on a desperate tone. The president and his supporters frequently cite the … Vietnam analogy is not so much the difficulty of drawing comparisons between two different situations. The problem is … United States lacks the wisdom and maturity required of a superpower. As in Vietnam, withdrawal from Iraq is not an …

… of four primary protagonists: an African American soldier, a Belgian nurse, a German soldier, and his French … (1994) Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) began developing computer games in 1979, but only established itself as a … 3. Battlefield 1 (2016) Battlefield 1 conveys the tone and historical context of the First World War well. The …

… Buchanan, oppose normal trade relations with China. About one-third of the House of Representatives, which votes … who were then fighting the founders of today’s communist government, a deployment almost unknown to … throw of Chinese territory, an estimated 260,000 Chinese soldiers poured across the border to push them and their allies …

… should we do about it? The first episode is the easy one. Barring somebody from the polls on the explicit basis … lists, precinct workers were instructed to dial a central phone line or to check registration lists on a laptop computer. But very few majority-black districts received the …

… According to the opponents of gay marriage, the Nov. 18 Massachusetts Supreme … ban against it is traditionally based on the words of a medieval German rabbi and remains restricted to Jews resident … so that all Jews could go back to biblical ways. The Ten Commandments are mute about gay marriage. Males in a …

… while negotiations proceed on an Israeli-Palestinian prisoner exchange. The conflict with no signs of let-up is not … war they fought with Israel during the summer of 2006.   One should also bear in mind the broader context of regional … treaty-based Israeli-Egyptian relationship is infinitely superior to the incessant warfare that characterized the …