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Raphael Lemkin, the man who invented the word “genocide,” did so in part because he could not find a word to describe the horrors of the Armenian episode. Yet in October 2007 Congress??the very same legislature that inveighed against Holocaust denial when it was easy—simply refused to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in a non-binding resolution. Upon hearing the news that the House was planning a vote, Turkey threatened to cancel arms deals and revoke their support for American air units operating in Iraq. The U.S government...
...House seats in both New Hampshire and Connecticut in 2006, and this year, the last remaining New England Republican member of the House, Chris Shays, was felled by James A. Himes ’88. With Shaheen’s win, that leaves just one New England Republican in Congress??New Hampshire’s senior senator, Judd Gregg...
...ripples were small at the time, but what was started could not be undone. By 1996, thanks to lobbying by conservative groups like the American Family Association and the new Republican Congress??s mantra of “fiscal responsibility,” the NEA saw its budget slashed by almost 40 percent. Individual artist grants were gone, as was general funding to arts organizations. Ultraconservatives won. Welcome...
...matter what congressional Republicans say, art is cheap. The NEA didn’t exist until 1965, but in 1935, when the unemployment rate was over 20 percent, Roosevelt created over 40,000 government jobs for artists under the Works Progress Administration. In 1995, the year before the Congress??s massive blood-letting, the NEA’s budget represented just 0.01 percent of federal funds outlays...
...power and money been concentrated in the hands of one person.” In a way, President Bush is correct when he puts the burden on Congress to act. But, it should act on the American people’s interest and not Paulson’s. To Congress??s credit, it proposed some limitations on Paulson’s power in the plan. That said, these modifications were not adequate to make up for the many flaws of the bill. For example, there were proposed modifications by Congress to give the money in smaller installments, beginning...