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… husband when he was nine) declared that her son “may have committed a sin, but never committed a crime,” she unknowingly evoked the flexible … the courtroom after Dixon’s conviction: “We Shall Overcome.” But it only takes a couple of well-chosen words by a …

… that burn in the Baghdad sky Insist there’s a price we must pay A soldier returns from the war in the Gulf A soldier named Tim McVeigh . . . ―Charlie King, The War is Coming Home , 1996 On April 19, 1995, a date fraught with … former soldier Timothy McVeigh—along with several accomplices—detonated a three-and-a-half ton fertilizer bomb …

… the cost of prevention would have been great, but less than paying to repair the damage. If we raise billions to fight … that followed the earthquake wiping out its business and commercial districts. Still the scope of the two disasters is comparable. The number of residents displaced by nature's …

… North to share collections. Ironically, it was the shortcomings of a UNESCO convention that brought M’Bow to this … in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, suggested that in the coming five years “conditions be put in place for the … restitution” of African cultural heritage. He subsequently commissioned Senegalese academic Felwine Sarr and French art …

… the last decades of the 20th century. Tales of Americans committing atrocities in Korea have persisted for decades. … Calley of killing 22 villagers at My Lai. He may have become a sort of folk hero during his trial and was later … the moral fabric of their nation will not allow them to become war criminals, even if that means losing a war. It is …

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… over the last four years.  The reasons for that are many, complex, and subject to change in the near and far future.  … to its lowest level in seven years.  Americans are paying on average just above $2.00 per gallon of gas .  Many … the height of the Great Recession in 2008, and through a combination of possible trader manipulation , political …

… irrevocably porous. But the events of November 9 did not come from nowhere. The fall of the Berlin Wall—as detailed … she instead writes the history of serendipity whose outcome was far from predetermined, even if it seems so in … authority of East Germany’s Socialist Unity Party (SED) was compromised; the leadership’s attempts to rebuild were …

… in the polls among GOP voters precisely because he is so comfortable mixing politics and religion. He presents a … to the group, include “indulgences (allowing people to pay money to indulge in their sins), inquisition (torture … the kind of bigotry American Catholics have tried to overcome. What may be less familiar is that Santorum’s brand of …

… These French units exploited the unclear lines of their own command authority to act somewhat independently of the rest of the military. This ambiguous command authority also allowed them to set up a vast network … over the conduct of war, the problem of ambiguously defined command authority and the creation of “extra legal” spaces …

… that has raged ever since. Apologizing for slavery has become such a controversial issue not only because few understand what it will accomplish, but also because even more than 130 years after … the idea of a slave memorial on the Washington Mall is becoming more popular. And why the Founding Fathers have …

… President Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives — created to give religious groups tax … philosophers: Marvin Olasky. Bush has praised Olasky as “compassionate conservatism’s leading thinker,” saying of his … the prevailing myth in the Bush administration. This myth comes out of the 1820s. Christian moral reformers of that …

… from food shortages and the weight of taxes used to pay King Louis XVI’s vast debts. And they found themselves … by historians, depicted by artists and celebrated by common people. In 1880, the French chose to make the … to Independence Square in Kyiv (not to mention the recent commemorations of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Movement ). The …

… and mathematical calculations.  Initially, he focused on comet and meteor predictions, but he later turned to … To assist with calculations, he hired a team of human computers—individuals (often women) who performed complex computations—a practice later highlighted in the …

… takes the press and the opposition party a full term to become familiar with an administration’s use of executive … by authorizing the coverup of the Watergate scandal and paying hush money to Watergate defendants. These were …

… the Taliban now confront the challenge of governing this complex country and establishing a stable government. Since … have sought to reassure Afghans and the international community that they have the answers to manage Afghanistan’s … clearer view of the Taliban challenge for the international community and what we might expect next in Afghanistan and …

… the national holiday from its pedestal. Memorial Day commemorates the men and women killed on the battlefield or … Gibbons (R – Nevada). Both bills were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Government Reform and haven't been seen since. …

… Weitz helps the reader understand how and why the fragile, complex, and tense culture of Weimar Germany motivated these … do. The discussion of the sexual revolution in Germany comes closer to touching on the wide variety of general … across the spectrum is an outstanding touch, because they communicate not just the intellectual but also the artistic …

… on chemical over-use. While the public, USDA, chemical companies , and farmers embraced pesticides with a fervor one historian has compared to a love story, a growing number of scientific … Court rejected an appeal by Bayer, forcing the company to pay Edwin Hardeman —a Californian who claimed Roundup gave …

… Lyndon Johnson ordered a task force, the Gilpatric Committee (named after its chairman, former deputy defense … to stop nuclear proliferation. According to the Gilpatric Committee, “Energetic and comprehensive steps must be taken in the near future to …

… Over the last year, we have come to know a good deal about Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. … existence of bohemia. Alienation? Who needs it? It doesn't pay well, and there's no 401(k). The Roots of the Idea So … individuals. The stone-faced automaker has given way to Apple, which flirts with revolution. As the Clinton …

… United States. The press, the government, and the medical community claim, often and loudly, that these numbers augur … the country’s resources. Still, amidst the alarmists, a few commentators acknowledge that aging itself has changed. Many … 65 was a number that could be sustainably financed through payroll taxation. As historian Andrew Achenbaum reports, “As …

… believed, the U.S. military services had to become flexible and mobile enough to meet smaller and more … has been slow to see how pervasive that intrusion has become. Although his belated recognition has impaired his … as 72 fighters. These cuts are intended to free money to pay for advanced technology such as missile defense, …