Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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The triumph of Aristide and his party, the National Front for Change and Democracy, was a resounding endorsement of his brand of theological populism, which is based on restoring the dignity and material well-being of the country's 6.2 million people. Even before the results were official, Port-au...
What is to be done? Representative Washington has it exactly backward. Forget the crumbs, demand reparations. It is time for a historic compromise: a monetary reparation to blacks for centuries of oppression in return for the total abolition of all programs of racial preference. A one-time cash payment in...
Amid all the grousing, hope was rising that a new, historic era of trade had begun -- with vast opportunities for U.S. exporters. To open that door, however, Bush had to waive the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, which prohibited normal trade relations until Moscow allowed free emigration for its citizens. The...
As Moscow faces a winter of shortages, politics and pity propel U.S. aid in a historic gesture. -- Republicans pull back from playing racial politics as Bill Bennett exits. -- A Mafia don is collared.
What ever happened to the precious parchments? Georgia simply can't find its copy. North Carolina thinks a Yankee yegg grabbed its historic document during the Civil War when General William Tecumseh Sherman tramped through Raleigh. And some New Yorkers speculate that Governor George Clinton walked off with the state...