Word: historicization
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Incidentally, our Harvard administration contends that Powell was not invited because of his status as a war hero (or criminal, again, choose your favorite), but because of his historic role in reshaping the military after the Cold War. Yet Time recently reported that Powell's plan for military restructuring is...
Even the most stalwart opponents of gambling are breaking down. Louisiana, whose constitution orders the legislature to "suppress" gambling, decided to call it something else and in less than two years has gone from no gambling to riverboat gambling to approving the largest casino in the world on five riverfront...
Russia's transformation from central planning to a market economy and working democracy is a huge historic spectacle worthy of high summitry. As Clinton said in a speech last week to sell the proposition to skeptical Americans, the U.S. "cannot stop investing in the peace now that we have obtained...
The most painful criticism of all for Aspin is that he remains conceptually a Congressman, with neither the administrative experience nor the decisiveness necessary at the Pentagon. He laughed out loud hearing himself described in one profile as "Hamlet, the Prince of Indecision." Congressman John Spratt of South Carolina, Aspin...
Even to raise these questions challenges humanity's belief that it occupies an exalted place in the universe. Moreover, scientists have historic reasons to be skeptical of claims concerning animal intelligence. At the turn of the century, a wonder horse named Clever Hans wowed Europeans with his apparent ability to...