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… 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 … more amazing, though, is that he listened. After Gregory died in Rome, Catherine hoped his successor, Pope Urban VI, …

… the explosion. A plant employee at work, mid-1980s. In any complex system, accidents are inevitable, but the Soviet … ascendancy the Soviet Union wanted to project was a lie. Commitment to this image by Soviet authorities meant that … to the crisis. Emily Watson’s Khomyuk, most notably, is a composite character meant to represent several of the …

… from religious life, because government money always comes with strings attached. Understanding that, in the late … Still, many religious leaders in poor neighborhoods welcome any help for their impoverished parishioners and … National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. …

… The chair of the House Government Reform Committee, Tom Davis, House Democrat Henry Waxman and Senate … U.S. professional sports leagues. The suspicions about superstar athletes such as Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa have … benefited from exemptions to the anti-trust laws, subsidies for stadium construction and an assortment of federal …

… number of letters that prove he was no dummy. A historian’s complaint, however, is larger than chagrin at the number of … nation to alter its perceptions, values and policies. The comfortable old ways will no longer do. Reagan had an … Indeed, it was known when he took office, for two national commissions (the 1972 National Commission on Population and …

… by hostile states or require an open-ended U.S. military commitment to Iraq. In short, this issue is of crucial … in the Middle East. It will also determine the future commitment of the United States to Iraq. Maj. Gen. Paul … will pay much greater costs down the line. Those costs will come in the form either of regional instability that could …

… the words “The End” on a popular, long-running American comedy named “The Roaring Twenties: The New Era of Eternal … With the failure of the individualistic market economy, community-oriented values made a strong comeback.  One of the most common misconceptions about the …

… to provide school feeding for children. When the school superintendent stopped by to see Walsh’s program in action, … the effect of child hunger in war-torn Europe, started a committee to bolster the existing national school lunch … these efforts the journey to end child hunger is far from complete. There are still huge gaps in participation in the …

… As China completes its takeover of Hong Kong, it should be remembered … spiritual leader, to take actions that made him a little uncomfortable (just as they have already directed Hong Kong’s … remained largely untouched during the first few years of communist rule in Tibet. The Dalai Lama himself has written …

… as the old age pension program), became untouchable. Their commitments were sacred. Their recipients were unequivocally … The proposed patchwork of mandates, regulations, and subsidies do nothing to address the administrative waste, actuarial complexity and naked profiteering that created the health …

… history of foreign occupation, Iraqi civilians would welcome U.S. troops as liberators. Most Iraqis, like most … Service and a doctoral student in history and security studies at Yale. E-mail:  jmankoff@yahoo.com . …

… the development of new technologies to reduce the cost and complexity of operating in space.   These proposals, … are rockets infallible: Insurance rates for the launch of a communications satellite can be 10 to 15 percent of its value. In comparison, the cost of auto insurance for a teenager seems …

… the cable news networks waited to report the outcome … and waited and waited and waited. Much to the … was not yet a news-gathering organization. These editors compiled bulletins from information sent by the British news … content presented in such a way as to attract the largest audience. In such a context, it is not surprising that the BBC …

… speculative thinking with his new biography on Trotsky. Coming after his previous biographies on Lenin and Stalin, … Alexander Parvus (1867-1924) and fell in love with his life-companion, Natalya Sedova (1882-1962). Quickly returning to … arguments used to justify these policies. The result is a superficial retelling of the Russian Revolution. Thankfully, …

… spread to the Spanish conflict. Robles went to his death a committed Stalinist, but to shroud the reality of the … contemptible. Koch reveals Dos Passos as the intellectual superior of the two, but also as someone who is confoundedly … a lethal wound. Dos Passos lived until 1970, but his art died in 1937. Koch's book is light on the history of the …

… process. What’s unusual is that conservatives are complaining about the Court at the same time they’re … the presidents who appointed them are gone, the Court’s composition frequently lags behind the country’s political … Justices who were popular when they took office often become jarringly out of touch before they leave. They’re like …

… the department to upgrade other decorations that soldiers have received in action to the Medal of Honor. They … whether there is an inadvertent subjective bias amongst commanders that has contributed to the low numbers of awards … them, including 864 awarded during the Civil War to the soldiers of the 27th Maine, who received the medal simply for …

… passed a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Édouard Daladier’s government. But based on advice from army and police officials and political advisors, Daladier stepped down to avoid increased violence. For the first … French cities. In fact, the riots of February 6 th have become shorthand to describe the protests and violence that …

… appliances, and new opportunities in electronics, telecommunications, and aerospace. In the United States the … work until the 1950s and 1960s brought three-car families, superregional malls, drive-by eating and drive-up banking. … century. Carl Abbott is a professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University, Ore., and a …

… see Israel’s response to the capture of three of its soldiers as entirely justified. Why not, they ask, punish those … so today will ensure that Israelis and Lebanese continue to die in vain. Michael H. Creswell is in associate professor …