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… immortality. A better approach than polling is to compare Reagan with past presidents who are now regarded as … Reagan left office. Great presidents are also effective communicators. Lincoln was the finest speechmaker in … support for New Deal legislation. Reagan, dubbed the “Great Communicator,” was an enormously successful speaker. A …

… in style, tone, and story, the two films are instructively complementary in reminding us of an uncomfortable truth … gave masters ownership and control over the labor and bodies of the men, women, and children who by law were their … most chilling scene, the tyrannical slaveholder Calvin Candie (a creepy Leonardo DiCaprio) without hyperbole thunders, …

… It seems as if apologies are becoming a regular part of business and politics. Pope John … for the Irish famine of the 1840s. The Aetna Insurance Company apologizes for selling insurance against the escape … They also cost nothing. The Vatican will not be paying compensation to the Christian dissidents butchered by the …

… helped inspire. Like Nixon in late 1969, the author has become immensely disillusioned with America's leadership class … According to Phillips, as fundamentalism gained a wider audience it played a more vocal role in shaping the parameters … painting. As one thumbs through each individual page, it is easy to be consumed by the author's historical reductionism …

… easily between historical periods, and languages. Her command of her own discipline, political theory, and other … racial, and ethnic differences within the West. Euben also complicates the idea of a singular Islam and instead … a way that will appeal to specialists, and not a general audience. At times her language is convoluted and her …

… was brilliant, but the process nearly destroyed the text. Compounding the damage was the decision in 1841 to put the … to monitor the condition of the document using a $3 million computerized camera system designed by the Jet Propulsion …

… to fight on until the enemy is utterly vanquished has become our shared myth. But its appeal is as dangerous as it … sameness: Sept. 11 = Dec. 7. With this false equation, the complex history of United States – Muslim relations may be … Harbor attack. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… The thick walls of a medieval city offered protection to its inhabitants. While … from her late father, Arsenio Frugoni, a professor of medieval history at the University of Rome. Prior to his … had written two short articles on urban life. Frugoni combined the two articles, included her own notes, and has …

… stubbornly. When it appeared he could no longer win by competing fairly, he tried playing up the dangerous aspects … expert Maurice Gunderson of Nth Power, a venture capital company in San Francisco, it wasn’t so much that Edison was … electricity on a local scale, while at the same time accomplishing other tasks. Four sewage plants in New York …

… political ends. After the war, no less than it had with soldiers, guns, and other armaments, Israel pursued nature … into the homes and land of Jewish settlers.  Drawing on studies of the United States’ Tennessee Valley Authority, and … the powerful and single-minded  Mekorot, the National Water Company of Israel .  Mekorot claims it has conveyed “water, …

… system and beyond.  Satellites make possible the modern communications, navigation, weather, and other space-based … space travel fully reliable.  Insurance rates for launching communications satellites into geosynchronous orbit run from … this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will …

… a very different matter. Unfortunately, bad analogies have come to dominate discussions of China in the American press. A disturbing number of commentators have been implying or stating outright that … China would do now that its second Communist “Emperor” had died. As the debate over the so-called “China threat” to …

… With the horrific assault of Sept. 11, “terrorism” has become the new American watchword and scourge. Yet as George … nor anyone else has defined what terrorism is or where it comes from. Doing so may help us to face a frightening … these groups realized that if you live by the car bomb, you die by the car bomb; terrorism could alienate the very …

… European prisoners.   Then, as now, the United States was coming out of a long and costly war (with England). Then, … Today, President Obama hopes to reduce American military commitments abroad as the Iraq war winds down. Pirate … incident. But, as the crisis dragged on, bitter public complaints about America’s ineptitude became a factor …

… a dramatic reconciliation in the European Coal and Steel Community.Ê Founded with four other countries in 1951, it … to sign up for a unified army in the 1952 European Defense Community. Five of them ratified it. The French parliament … problems – especially expensive agricultural subsidies and institutional inefficiencies and cronyism. Though …

… the Soviet Union, the United States was not a preemptive combatant. It was Joseph Stalins Soviet Union that blockaded …

… one requiring an almost obsessive attention to detail, a commitment to exacting measurements, and above all a patient … to measure accurately a degree of latitude at the equator. Comparing it with another measurement of latitude made in … of adventurers, officers, and scientists were assembled to complete a task intended to take only three years. Instead, …

… A History of Oil in the Middle East , serves as a concise, easy-to-read introduction to modern Middle Eastern history … had obtained independence. Morton tracks major individuals, companies, and governments taking part in the search for commercially viable oil sources as well as the negotiation …

… mountain views, Oaxaca City also offers vistas of Mexico's complex history. In 1521, Hernán Cortés sent Captain José … Mill). Oaxaca's rugged terrain means that many indigenous communities remain isolated: roughly 50% of the state’s … in Mexico: the Sierra Sur mountain range keeps indigenous communities in relative isolation. (Photos courtesy of Kelly …

… as the voice of prudence, the realpolitik strategic thinker compelled to inform the naive, idealistic newcomers from the South about national interests and … conduct ignorant and misplaced. Instead of opposing the commander in chief directly, Brzezinski cited administrative …

… history.  Stein brings a fresh perspective to the studied and landmark decisions Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), … Instead, the holding is evidence of a much more tenuous commitment to a liberal sexually revolutionizing agenda.  The Court's commitment, Stein argues, was to a specific, fairly narrow, …