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...mouth: “Come and help us.” There is a grim irony in this apostrophe to the Puritan mission civilisatrice, for, as any American must admit, the colonization of North America proceeded not under the mantle of aid but of annihilation. Within years of European contact, Massachusetts’ aboriginal people were decimated by disease and then finished off by military action...
...used to be equally fearful of its giant neighbor. The party has historically been one of the great bastions of anticommunism and the restrictions on Taiwan's contact with the mainland date primarily from the long period when the KMT was in power. But in recent years, the KMT has gone through a transformation in its outlook. The KMT's turnaround was caused, indirectly, by the DPP. Kicked out of power eight years ago, the KMT had grown out of touch with Taiwan's increasingly vibrant democratic environment. After ruling for so many decades, most of the time through authoritarian...
...chief, first in Ukraine and then in Russia, the beefy Vitaly Fedorchuk was known as a thug. Thought to be behind kidnappings and murders as the "Butcher of Ukraine," he later persecuted Russians who had too much contact with foreigners before finally becoming highly visible as the Soviet Union's top cop in the '80s. His efforts at first seemed to foreshadow perestroika-like reforms: he exposed official corruption and condemned drunkenness. But Western analysts called his heavy-handed tactics "neo-Stalinist." In the late '80s Mikhail Gorbachev sidelined him. Fedorchuk...
...some cases, the students are also permitted to give an oral presentation.) From there, the process is out of the student’s hands while the Ad Board reaches a verdict and a sentence, which is relayed to him by his resident dean. Throughout, there is no contact between the Board and the student, and even those who have to take time off receive no official communication from the Board...
...Whether you love or hate what he’s done, you have to respect his ability,” Weatherl said. “Karl Rove is arguably the greatest political mind of his generation.” Weatherl was able to use a mutual contact to get in touch with Rove’s assistant. “With his resignation being pretty recent, this is one of the first times that he was free,” Weatherl said. A longtime Republican political strategist and advisor to President George W. Bush, Rove is widely credited...