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… investments broadly through risky buyouts of disparate companies. Often they stuffed their pockets with cash while … and investment banking and restricted the use of bank credit for speculative activities. Roosevelt also supported … about the evils of avarice. It also carried a practical message. What was good for Gordon Gekko, the movie …

… the words “The End” on a popular, long-running American comedy named “The Roaring Twenties: The New Era of Eternal … inevitable collapse was postponed by selling products on credit to consumers who did not have the money to buy them. … rose by 9 percent, but the richest 1 percent saw their incomes increase by 75 percent. In recent years the changes have …

… collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Central Asia has become an increasingly important pivot in international … threats as well as important possibilities. They are sites for a potential rise in radical Islam; for a freer … and political ally. Even though Russian politicians at times speak with grand references to the imperial legacy, …

… John McCain probably lost whatever chance he had to become president on August 28, the day he invited Sarah Palin … candidate on a major party ticket in modern times. Palin had slight experience in high governmental … in 1976.   Sarah Palin helped John McCain rally Republican loyalists but ultimately her presence made it impossible for …

… a stream-of-consciousness narrative that interweaves text messages, journal entries, and letters, the reader is shown … parties, struggle with their sexuality, track “likes” and “comments” on Facebook, experience domestic abuse, and dream … of telephone eventually played by writers who had never visited Greenland, reports through the centuries grew more …

… Hello, everyone and welcome from the College of Arts and Sciences. Thank you so … were tied to fears over deforestation, or sometimes the opposite, actually hoping to moderate the climate, changing the … made back into the 1890s. The first scientist who's really credited with recognizing that it was happening is often a …

… would-be migrants to rush the journey. They warned their clients that the border was about to open but would quickly … they simply never made enough to do so. “Many Chinamen have come; few have returned. Why is this?” representatives of … Asian Americans were first banned from particular worksites, denied housing or services, and then prohibited from …

… are being built in Brazil and China, while campaigns to decommission dams are gaining traction in the United States … which earned it distinction as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993. At 28 meters it stands just higher than its … from nearby mines marked the location as a toxic Superfund site.   “Elwha be Free,” with painted on cracks on dam, …

… Joe Biden defendió un acuerdo fronterizo bipartidista como “el conjunto de reformas de seguridad fronteriza más … de ley salvaría vidas y pondría orden en la frontera.” Dos meses antes,  el gobernador de Texas, Greg Abbott, había … cuestionó su razonamiento, Reyes declaró: “No creo que necesitemos justificación para hacer nuestro trabajo.” Los …

… The early version was small (around 30 clerics) and comprised only of “cardinal priests” who served parishes … overall historical significance, appetite for intrigue, and messy electoral politics. (And a note before we begin: The … died somewhere far from Rome, probably never having even visited.   Nevertheless, Christians in Rome from the third …

… of criminal responsibility imposed by the international community for the commission of mass atrocities. Yet, … 1948 and it entered into legal force in 1951 after the requisite number of states signed on. The United Nations General … jurisdiction. Each statute defined genocide along with crimes against humanity and war crimes. Importantly, genocide …

… United States is characterized by three great waves of newcomers. The first wave came primarily from Ireland, Germany, … American identity. When World War I ended, concern over the loyalty of new immigrants did not diminish. The Bolshevik … Revolution of 1917 raised fears that radicals were pouring into the country intending to foment socialist …

… the price of beer per Maß (a Bavarian liter) and to limit competition for cereal grains used to bake bread. A … brewery in Germany. Still, just a few blocks away from the site of Munich’s famous Oktoberfest beer festival, Sead … in February of 2016, Munich’s Deputy Mayor, Josef Schmid, credited the Reinheitsgebot for establishing a high standard …

… power production — will likely represent one of the most complicated dilemmas of the twenty-first century. Speaker: … Dr. Bart Elmore   Welcome, welcome, everyone. This is so great to see everyone … the the current dilemmas that we're often facing when it comes to water. I want to begin by asking sort of raising a …

… people in harvesting sea life off the banks of what would become Canada’s eastern shore. Cod—so synonymous with fishing … with model of itself, Twillingate (top); Three mobile homes, Job's Cove (bottom). Jellybean guest houses, St. … rocks, Birchy Cove (bottom). Bench at World Heritage site, L'Ans aux Meadow (top); Church, Duntara (bottom). …

… asked Big Foot, leader of the Minneconjou Teton Sioux, to come to Pine Ridge Reservation with his followers in hopes … Intercepted by the Seventh Cavalry commanded by Colonel James W. Forysth on December 28, Big Foot's band made camp for … statehood for the western Territories would create voter loyalty there. Republicans envisioned a West that embraced …

… away from the actual events of the war, movies have become the dominant means for us to envision them. But can you … even more films into this article (don’t tell). 1. The Burmese Harp , Japan, Kon Ichikawa, 1956 Still from The Burmese … Still from Germany, Pale Mother  (From the BFI re-release site). Taking its title from Bertold Brecht’s prescient 1933 …

… Act — known also as the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act — a long and ugly history of violence and … hands in public, embracing at an airport, or from being comfortable in workplaces where heterosexual family photos … signals of same-gender love. This culture has a deep and complicated history as the Freemasons engraving and poem …

… while other jurisdictions declared these children unwelcome. A U.S. Border Patrol poster placed around the border … Young immigrant girl in turn-of-the-century Buenos Aires; Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Archivo General de la Nación … was contributed by unauthorized residents, has been deposited into the “Earnings Suspense File” of the Social …

… clubs and launched multiyear protests. While sharing a common goal, these efforts were not without internal … they abandoned, next time on  Prologued . Sarah Paxton ( Credits) This season of Prologued was brought to you by  … Oranjudio. Song and band information can be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …

… A tweet from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library after comparisons were made between Nixon and President Trump when … any occurrence or event except through the lens of loyalty to himself , Jackson attempted to defend O’Neale’s … was more complex and more closely fought. The intended site of the Whitewater Development Corporation along the …

… kill a gorilla who had done nothing wrong. Still others posited that the wrongdoing lay not with any particulars, but … even have gorilla enclosures in the first place? It should come as no surprise that zoos make headlines. According to a … annually, more than do all NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB games combined. These zoos also contribute almost $20 billion …

… at … well, any number of things. Lumping them together, the commentariat called all these angry voters “populists” and … a revolt of the “better classes,” or the elite. While the loyalties of ordinary colonists were deeply divided, those … of forces including railroad shipping rates, access to bank credit, falling farm prices on national and international …