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… even at the risk of confrontation with the international community. In persuading the Iranian government to be more … to be a friend of democracy by using the threat of force alone. Rather, it must help other nations achieve their … for self-determination; this has been the announced cornerstone of American foreign policy. If the Iranian government is …

… to restart the auto industry.   Here's how it can be done:   Use already appropriated Federal government bailout … the next four months.   Require banks receiving bailout money to use 10 percent of the "aid" — $4 billion to date — … growth. If he fails to do this, President Obama will repeat one of Roosevelt's greatest economic mistakes. Even worse, …

… tax credit for children to the nation’s 6.5 million low-income families, and has buried the measure in another round … are pushing against the same obstacles that 18th-century opponents of slavery confronted: acceptance of an evil because … deplore it in dinner table conversations before asking someone to pass the lamb chops. Barbara Ehrenreich detailed the …

… interest in China's future place in the international community has grown. Odd Arne Westad explores China's … and workers, are examined and considered as the crucial components of historical heritage that shape the views and … fostered a complex feeling towards foreigners. On the one hand, they felt victimized by imperialism and at the …

… analogies about Iraq. They had better search further. While comparisons of Iraq with Vietnam may stir Howard Dean’s supporters to send him their milk money, they obscure rather than clarify what’s needed to “win … Americans attempt to shoehorn a military conflict into a “one size fits all” Vietnam analogy. In Operation Desert …

… officers as presidential contenders. Generals who have become president (there were ten, six of them notable as commanders) have usually succeeded by presenting themselves … to make peace in a frustrating and demoralizing war. No one dared call the hero of World War II soft on communism. …

… United States is characterized by three great waves of newcomers. The first wave came primarily from Ireland, Germany, … views of immigrants contended in the public sphere. On the one hand, nativists continued to proclaim the inferiority of … make the world safe for democracy and to ensure that everyone, regardless of background, was treated decently. But, …

… and diverse crowd led an uprising at New York’s Stonewall Inn. The event has become iconic in popular memory as the spark for a new radical … freedom fighters “through Seneca Falls , and Selma, and Stonewall.” The Stonewall Inn, 1969. In Stonewall’s wake, a … Milestones …

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… enslaved Africans generated tremendous wealth for an elite community of slave owners, slave traders, and political … formerly enslaved individuals and their descendants petitioned for compensation, recognition, and material support, … terms, such as “redress, compensation, indemnification, atonement, repayment, and restitution,” to convey the same …

… career home runs and his 1,119 RBIs place him in the same company as such Hall of Famers as Yogi Berra, Roy … cannot be fully explained as an expression of prejudice alone. Racism is a much broader cultural phenomenon, … by the sportswriters in the Hall of Fame voting. Cap Anson, one of the earliest inductees, was a major force in creating …

… Munich conference of 1938, where Britain and France abandoned Czechoslovakia to Nazi aggression, taught the lesson: … Serb nationalists assassinated the heir to the Austrian throne. Austria’s retaliation against Serbia escalated into a … invasion, the Iraqi military could engage in house-to-house combat or terrorist attacks against U.S. troops in Baghdad …

… Hanoi's agreement to free elections in the South. Alone with Kissinger, Nixon acknowledged on tape, "South … it. Halfway through his first term, he secretly decided to complete American troop withdrawals around election time. His stalling postponed the South's collapse until it was too late for voters …

… capital city, Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian Emperor was accompanied by battle-tested companies of Patriot guerilla fighters (the Arbanyoch). British Colonel Orde Wingate led Gideon Force and an assorted mix of … which would lead to a Civil War that would cost more than one million lives and result, in 1993, in Ethiopia’s loss of …

… the need for savings versus the need for resources for the common good.  For many of today's issues — such as Internet … entire estate of a person convicted of treason.  They reasoned that the property even of citizens who had committed … people should be allowed to pass on to their children.  But one thing is certain:  They hoped to prevent the emergence …

… World War. After listening to his story, I asked him to compare what he knew of Vietnam to his own experiences. His … to a lack of "social knowledge," a problem which no one could have solved (214). Thus, just as they and others … for diplomatic and military historians, as well as for anyone interested in the nature of policymaking during the last …

… whether there is an inadvertent subjective bias amongst commanders that has contributed to the low numbers of awards … bestowed and the reasons why.   The United States is not alone in keeping the integrity of its highest combat … Honor so we, as Americans, can rest assured there is still one corner in this nation where we may hear the word “hero” …

… work begun some 30 years earlier by the office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR) of the League of Nations . Created on June 27, 1921, the position of High Commissioner was subsequently offered to the Norwegian Arctic … Milestones …

… seemed to me, foreshadows what the United States would become more than the Puritan outpost of Boston. After all, … greatest law-giver the world has produced.” He never mentioned Winthrop. Jefferson was not alone among the Founders who ignored, or simply did not know, …

… follows suit, lying as much to themselves as to everyone else. The historical record supports the series’ … the explosion. A plant employee at work, mid-1980s. In any complex system, accidents are inevitable, but the Soviet … meant that the lie of the RBMK’s safety became an unquestioned official truth. The series depicts the cost of these …

… slave trade. While the anniversary passed without too much comment in the United States, it was commemorated widely in … in the Americas. Finally in 1807, thanks to the impassioned efforts of the Anti-Slavery Society, the British … to admit. The story After Abolition tells is a horrifying one, but it is still incomplete. As Sherwood admits, she has …