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… recently to consider their party’s future, many of them complained that conservatives had lost their way. They … and a progressive. Not many of today’s leaders offer that combination. At the recent governors’ conference only a few … right-wing ideology. That shift eventually produced some notable political gains, but it also created grave …

… Barry Goldwater of 1964. Dean should have taken the comparison seriously. Glaring parallels exist between the … election, few believed that Goldwater could successfully compete for, much less win, the Republican nomination, but … committed more than his share of gaffes, and he offended some Democrats by disparaging his rivals as “Bush lite.” …

… scandal. Frustrated by a few unrepentant prelates, Keating compared their conspiratorial behavior to that of the Mafia. … to his lawyer and not enough to his heart.” Calling those comments “the last straw,” Mahoney announced he would seek … Sage advice, then and now. Frank Keating has certainly said some harsh things – things that a number of bishops would …

… unalloyed sense of justification: She announces that the outcome of the battle of Agincourt showed "God had chosen to … During the campaign, Henry issued a challenge to single combat to the dauphin ; Barker goes to great lengths to … the events from an eyewitness point of view. Barker sometimes attempts to convey the human experience of the …

… Americans have hated political and economic bullies. "Free competition" has always been our rallying cry and the … their entrepreneurship survive in the face of ruthless competition? Free competition meant the opportunity for all … returns to everyone, entrepreneurs and consumers alike. Yet some argued that monopoly was bad not because it hurt …

… Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republican legislators took unbecomingly large financial contributions from the appreciative … seen whether George W. will allow his administration to be completely captured by his fossil fuel buddies. Eisenhower, … the environmental movement proved to be a formidable competitor for legislators’ attention into the early 1990s. …

… details of domestic issues, the most eye-opening comments on foreign policy have stemmed from Gov. George W. … The stark differences between the two candidates' comments tend to obscure the fact that Republicans, as well … mired in a tradition of autocratic callousness, as some commentators did following the Russian mishandling of …

… crimes." 1 Partially as a result, the name Krupp has become synonymous with war profiteering, armaments and the … its legacy. Where Manchester's work heavily emphasizes the company's arms sales, James presents a more balanced account … a complicated relationship with the Nazi regime, accused by some of financing Hitler's rise to power. The company's use …

… which stand to make hundreds of millions in fees and commissions, and anti-welfare state conservative ideologues, … about the gloomy long-term predictions President Bush’s new commission offers concerning the future of the system. … make the existing system more just, not transform it into something it was never intended to be. Norman Markowitz is a …

… European cells in Europe and established its own cells commanded directly by leaders in Afghanistan. Despite being … torture of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison. This comprehensive study also describes the emergence of … received few directions from Al Qaeda, but also inspired some “lone-wolf” attacks. Nesser concludes his book with an …

… day in Dallas in 1963. In an inaugural address that has become a poignant reminder of the idealism of the 1960s, JFK … in a refreshing spirit of voluntarism by urging citizens to commit themselves to solving the problems of poverty and … resulted in the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963. In fact, some misguided conspiracy theories maintain that it was …

… storm which these swells...told us in unerring language was coming.” —Dr. Isaac Cline Today, the National Weather … 38,000 had just that year had surpassed New Orleans to become the leading cotton port in the U.S. Travelers could get … though the number may have been even higher. Many families, some of them visitors, completely vanished. At St. Mary’s …

… forcing politicians to make hard choices and progressive commitments. Democratic candidates have recently been … more intransigent than legal desegregation: unemployment, income inequality, poverty, voter disaffection, and racial … of the horrible riots that followed King’s assassination. Some housing markets and schools have seen desegregation …

… and Saint-Denis were among the most organizationally complex and bureaucratically advanced entities operating … of the Channel. His footnotes reveal just how rare such competence is among medieval historians, as the names of … Jordan will open up a line of analysis that draws some aspect of the abbots' roles in the monasteries into …

… buildings and a section of the Pentagon, on Sept. 11. Commentators have noted that the terrorists picked their … And when that style involves our shooting at others it becomes particularly problematic. U.S. warships lobbed shells … and Israel. That can only be done in the United States, something their opponents have long understood. Supporters …

… played by any number of Hollywood’s rising twenty-something male leads. Escobar ’s plot is rather formulaic: Nick enters the world of Colombian drug trafficking , gains the trust of the kingpin, and must choose … soldiers. Entrance to Hacienda Napoles, the main Escobar compound, with a gate adorned with Escobar's first smuggling …

… civil war. Another similarity may prove the most troublesome of all for President Bush. Citizen troops — reservists … attempted the same kind of program in Vietnam. It failed completely. The second measure calls for an Iraqi government … Today, most Americans would be glad just to have our troops come home. The trick is to get them out without seriously …

… initiated." That evening, in a foreshadowing of events to come, fireworks lit the sky above Fort Sumter. Who could … Democratic candidate Stephen Douglas labored to craft a compromise to bring the seceding states back into the union. … of Confederate History Month, who persist in claiming that some African Americans supported the breakaway republic, …

… an unknown enemy, one whom many Americans believed had committed an act of war. And, like the destruction of the … Americans in 1920, the death toll from the blast seemed incomprehensible. “The horrible slaughter and maiming of men … a better feeling in Wall Street than there has been for some time.” The violence was dismissed as the work of crazed …

… to be sacrificed on the altar of profit - we are flames, committed to conquering darkness, and we will continue the … Bhopal was not an accident. It was a predictable outcome of corporate double standards, negligence, and cost … surrounding land and groundwater. Levels of mercury in some places were 6,000,000 times higher than background …

… for those unfamiliar with such theory. Lienesch's comparisons of the antievolution movement to other social … the Scopes trials than the past seventy-five years combined. Given the plethora of books on Scopes, including … with those who believe that life on earth originated from Extraterrestrials! Furthermore, advocates of "intelligent …

… by historians, depicted by artists and celebrated by common people. In 1880, the French chose to make the … times of deterritorialized terror, outsourced prisons, bitcoins, and subcontracted state and military arbitrariness, … with the consent and for the benefit of the people—it is sometimes easier to strike down the visible signs of …