Search Results

… who view the dead and choose to remember them. This is a complex work.  Equal parts philosophical treatise, … to his core principle of an ethical “just memory”. Nguyen sites first person shooter style videogames as allowing … aesthetics of sweat and viscera and is about identifying one’s self with the shooter and feeling the joy and …

… policy debate on Oct. 22, nuclear weapons are sure to come up, especially Iran’s ambitions for the bomb. But the … since President Eisenhower.”   But Reagan had some prerequisites. In 1986 the United States Senate had yet to ratify … George W. Bush did not support it either.   The opponents of the CTBT insist that nuclear testing is needed to …

… United States. Sometimes, in fact, we try to hide our hand completely. For example, the administration frankly says it … war syndrome. But eventually it became obvious that U.S. money, supplies and advisers plus South Vietnamese soldiers … Iraq and Iran made peace, the Kurds found themselves abandoned. Again, in 1991, after the Gulf War, with Saddam still …

…   This is Patrick Potyondy. And I'm speaking over the phone with Tom Smith, executive director of the American … Tom Smith   Sure. And by the way, the next report card will come out in 2017. What we do is we look at 16 categories of … in the most recent years, then. Tom Smith   Yes, in fact, none of the categories went down between 2009 and 2013, and …

… are excited about the idea of exploring space. The Web sites for Spirit and Opportunity, the Mars rovers, have … is spending on the occupation of Iraq this year alone), only $1 billion more than previously budgeted. Sending … millions of dollars, or approximately $10,000 a pound. By comparison, sending a 180-pound history professor across the …

… came into Mediterranean ports by ship. But, it is also becoming clear that small pools of plague had been established … in Europe for centuries, apparently in wild rodent communities in the high passes of the Alps. The remains of … the founding of new universities and new colleges at older ones. The proliferation of new centers of learning and …

… that the West is "at war with Islamic fascists." In case anyone missed the point, a few days later Bush described … a "totalitarian ideology" menacing people everywhere. This comparison between Islamic radicalism and fascism, which … The United States and its allies have already occupied the one state ever to come under direct al-Qaeda control, …

… translated into action. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower committed the U.S. government to a first-strike nuclear … useless if he could not see what his enemy was doing. Everyone in the Kremlin knew that the United States could indeed … to the brink of war in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. No one can say yet what the Bush administration’s talk of …

… was the reinterpretation of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Comparing President Kennedy’s action and President Bush’s … administration lacks the kind of documentary evidence that compelled Kennedy to act. Kennedy resisted the use of force … exactly the situation his imperious personality required. One might not agree with all that he did in Japan or with …

… in Kansas where few noticed the signs of the pandemic to come amid the ongoing war. On March 4, 1918 company cook … outbreak. Fatalities peaked in November 1918. Military officials were often the first to realize the severity of … chin. Some cities, like San Francisco, legislated that everyone should wear a gauze mask in public. A popular rhyme was …

… bingo games in the town of Jasper to providing for the compensation of the Judge of Probate in Barbour County. As a … is a bad idea. Backlash is a sorry reason for doing it, one unlikely to yield good constitutional law. Ralph E. …

… led to a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt that none of Begin’s opponents, previous Labor Party prime ministers, had seriously … theme the denunciation of Democrats as being soft on communism, opened up relations with the People’s Republic of … Can Sharon Too Become a Peacemaker? …

… surface of this dispute is a fundamental clash between the competing claims of national sovereignty and universal human … in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, East Timor and Sierra Leone. Throughout the 1990s, the basic distinction between … Khmer Rouge leaders was a political question, not a legal one: “If the lawyers have evolved and changed both in morals …

… John McCain probably lost whatever chance he had to become president on August 28, the day he invited Sarah Palin … preferred Biden to Palin by wide margins. That disparity alone would not have influenced voters if they were not … most important message of this historic election, but it is one worth remembering. Joel K. Goldstein is the Vincent C. …

… it by insisting on pursuing a foolish go-it-almost-alone invasion of Iraq, thereby transforming almost universal … available military forces and be a bottomless pit for the money of American taxpayers for years to come. •  Failed to follow through in Afghanistan, where the …

… history. Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, complained that the CBS script contains language that Ronald … only truthful portrait of Reagan is a saintly and heroic one? Must all dramas about Thomas Jefferson, author of the …

… 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 … and Truman promised social justice. Woodrow Wilson envisioned eternal peace. Reagan too had a clear vision for his …

… women, who saved the church that nurtured him and composed the movement whose spokesman he became. King was … attack upon the children of Israel. Ebenezer meant "Stone of Help," for,  said Samuel, "hitherto the Lord has … shouts up against the wall." Such women were the backbone of the community that nurtured young King. "The church …

… The ceiling of the main university building was gone, and its interior had suffered substantially from the … of thousands of books, periodicals, and manuscripts had become fuel for the flames.  Newspapers around the world … efforts, in April 1968, the University of Algiers library officially reopened.  Although it was eventually possible to …

… the Greeks, the Romans, and the Goths, among others. This comprises the first chapter of Kent’s history. The next … argue that this leads the book into an almost old-fashioned political history. This should not necessarily be … factual inaccuracies. For example, Kent refers to the “last official census before the current political upheavals,” …

… 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, …