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Roosevelt delayed D-day for so long not to punish the Russians but to protect Americans--and to lay the groundwork for the U.S.'s postwar international leadership. He knew all too well that his isolationist countrymen had scuttled Woodrow Wilson's bid to claim that leadership after World War I. He was worried that demanding too great a sacrifice in World War II might once again sour the nation on assuming its international responsibilities. Then all his painstaking work to wean Americans from their provincial ways would be squandered and the world once again rendered unsafe for democracy...
...field; and at the same time, also as a “gateway” into a particular department. It is difficult to imagine a course successfully fulfilling so many demands—providing both an interdisciplinary approach to a specific issue or topic, yet still laying the specific groundwork necessary for further work in a certain concentration. One of the primary failings of courses in the Core Curriculum is that they attempt to appeal to such a wide variety of audiences, and in the process do a mediocre job for each of them...
...undermine the right to choose. Using tactics that, though technically legal, are underhanded at best, the president and his pals in Congress are slowly succeeding at doing what they couldn’t through open debate: limit women’s access to reproductive healthcare and lay the groundwork for overturning Roe v. Wade...
Which is why, after all the scandal and controversy, the Clintons remain the brightest stars in the Democratic galaxy. Her memoirs were a blockbuster; his are certain to be. And with every move comes a new round of speculation. Are they burnishing a legacy or laying the groundwork for a second Clinton presidency? As long as we have the Clintons, they will keep us talking--and guessing. --By Karen Tumulty
...effectively grants fetuses the legal status of persons. At issue is clearly not the protection of pregnant women—an otherwise identical bill that dropped the-fetus-as-person language was shot down. Even many pro-life supporters unapologetically admit that the law is intended to lay the groundwork for a future legal challenge...