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… entre 1974 a 1979  que en toda su historia independiente . De hecho, durante este tiempo,  Venezuela gozaba … y Buicks y la clase alta famosamente se lanzaba de compras a Miami donde eran conocidos como los del “dame … Cientos de miles de venezolanos han tomado a las calles para protestar contra el gobierno y exigir elecciones. …

… to the nation he coined the phrase "military-industrial complex." Eisenhower used that address to issue a warning to … spirit as well. In this book, Koistinen explains how that complex (he abbreviates it MIC) came to be and how it has … of economists like Seymour Melman and others who have studied the question. He juxtaposes the growth of military …

… the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: … by a domino-theory fear that tiny Cuba would bring about communist revolutions throughout the hemisphere. It wasn’t … received support from the U.S. as a bulwark against communism. Hotel Ambos Mundos, where Ernest Hemingway lived …

… of the Heaven’s Gate suicides now blame everything from comets to cults to cyberspace to the dead themselves — the “weak” among us, as commentator David Gelernter put it. Perhaps when we have … leaves many Americans unprepared to confront life’s complexities, challenges, and disappointments? More than a …

… The furor over comments made by Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his aides to a … — are limited.   Yet many Americans still expect our soldiers not only to hunt down the enemies of the United States … product of long-standing ambivalence. On the one hand, soldiering is among the most honored professions, certainly far …

… history is the Battle of Gettysburg. While many will commemorate the battle itself, the decision not to press … and gravel roads in makeshift wagons, begged to be left to die. Cavalry guarded Lee’s precious supplies as the army, in … the conservative clique, fumed later that “The national soldiers … wished with a united voice to be led to the work of …

… Brutal violence is not typically the first thing that comes to mind when observing the artwork of the … Renaissance’s greatest masters. For many, this art has become synonymous with the beginning of a new era and the … uncommon for military men (whether they be common foot soldiers or officers) to record their own impressions and …

… British regulars being routed by American Continental soldiers and a band of South Carolina militiamen led by … of the old monarchical, aristocratic imperial order embodied in Cornwallis and defended by the Redcoats. Not without … fire until ranks are broken and desperate hand-to-hand combat ensues. These scenes, realistic and at times surreal, …

… on faculty hires. Suddenly, new Ph.D.s found themselves competing with a hundred or even a thousand other candidates … despondent souls at any academic conference, squirming uncomfortably in their suits and waiting — always waiting for … — that we almost never ask this question. But answers are easy to imagine. English Ph.D.s could revise turgid …

… On April 24, 2015, much of the world will commemorate the centennial of one of the most highly … The result was the physical annihilation of the Armenian communities that had lived in the Anatolian peninsula for … into the Armenian Massacres of 1894-1896,” Comparative Studies in Society and History , XXIV, 3 (July 1982), pp. …

… and undervalued, the seismic program was still incomplete almost two decades later when Loma Prieta struck … as the “Cypress Structure” collapsed, killing sixty-four commuters. Unlike most California freeways in 1989, the …

… capital city, Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian Emperor was accompanied by battle-tested companies of Patriot guerilla fighters (the Arbanyoch). … Orde Wingate led Gideon Force and an assorted mix of Commonwealth fighters from Egypt , Sudan , and Kenya . …

… and anger are settling into a cold rage against whoever committed the atrocity and those who may be sheltering the perpetrators’ accomplices and families. But what must now be done? This is … weapons. At what point should we retaliate? When a million die in Boston or Seattle from a nuclear blast? The same …

… the Romans had paved for their own armies to travel. If war comes, Iraq will be using the computers and cell phones and radar it got from the United … dangerous road. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… that has raged ever since. Apologizing for slavery has become such a controversial issue not only because few understand what it will accomplish, but also because even more than 130 years after … slavery is not only historically irresponsible, it is the easy way out of a much more complex racial dilemma that only …

… he could have destroyed the Soviet Union. For Buchanan, Communism, with its rejection of free enterprise and foreign … by major Western politicians in the 1930s. It became the COMMON SENSE of the Cold War period. It lingers today. … One of these influential isolationists was Martin Dies, the Texas congressman who chaired the House Unamerican …

… to the world that people of any religious faith would be welcome. To Penn we owe our freedom of religion. Penn was a … was upheld. Since then, Mormons have managed an uneasy compromise with the rest of the nation. In return for …

… irrevocably porous. But the events of November 9 did not come from nowhere. The fall of the Berlin Wall—as detailed … she instead writes the history of serendipity whose outcome was far from predetermined, even if it seems so in … authority of East Germany’s Socialist Unity Party (SED) was compromised; the leadership’s attempts to rebuild were …

… “If our bombs are so ‘smart,’ how come they’re always hitting refugees, hospitals and … but if we listen carefully, their voices convey a sense of compassion, coupled with disappointment. Often stereotyped … But my students reminded me that such answers are never easy and that we must never rush to judgment. Ron Briley is …

… a way to counter the rescission of $5 billion of U.S. subsidies to exporters that the World Trade Organization had …

… single kilometer. Although the only electric vehicle at the competition, the Jeantaud handily beat its gasoline-powered competition at the Parc Agricole d’Achères outside Paris.  … produce uni-directional currents in 1867. He opened his own company in 1870 and first introduced the efficient direct …

… "Introduction to Solid State Chemistry," "Introduction to Computer Science and Programming," "Quantitative Methods in … in part to open up access to higher education. It should come as no surprise that MIT would be a leader in making the …

… phenomenon. This is why Congress should examine the recommendations made in a 2002 British government Green Paper … sector military operators. Mercenaries — professional soldiers who fight for pay rather than out of ideological … of their day. The British hired more than 30,000 German soldiers — the famed Hessians, some of whom were defeated by …