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...denization (a preliminary to citizenship) to those coming from any part of Europe ? including Jews ? before such rights were available in the respective mother countries. Evidence from slave ship revolts ? collected as part of the transatlantic slave trade database project (now available on CD-ROM from Cambridge University Press) ? suggests that African cohesiveness in resistance to the trade increased over the decades so that there was much more likelihood of a slave ship rebellion being successful in the second half of eighteenth century than a century earlier. From a broad five century perspective, everyone in the Atlantic World broadened their...
These are not isolated incidents. In its series of annual reports on schoolhouse commercialism, the Center for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education (CACE) has found a 10-year overall increase of 395 percent in press citations discussing commercializing activity in schools. Analyzing the number of press citations gives only an approximate measure of the actual growth of school commercialism. However, the increased media attention to activities such as exclusive vendor agreements with soft drink bottlers, the promotion of junk food and hair care products through in-school sampling and the privatization of public schools in deals with for-profit...
...Until the spinners' entrance, the press room was pretty quiet; attention to the debate simulcast was swayed periodically by the arrival of new propaganda from red-T-shirt clad Gore-Lieberman volunteers. These people are unbelievable; the copies were still warm as they piled up on our desk. The Bush-Cheney entourage were a bit slower on the uptake - it took them a good 45 minutes to get warmed up. But once they got started, they produced their "issue clarification" packets with startling speed, maneuvering around the press desks in their tailored suits and Ralph Lauren dress shirts...
...consensus here in the press enclave? Both candidates did what was expected of them: Gore hit Bush pretty hard, but Bush held his own. A couple of failed (perhaps misunderstood) attempts at humor didn't help Bush all that much, and he stumbled on a couple of key phrases on tax breaks. Much has been made of the fact that the debates were scheduled past Bush's usual bedtime - and the governor did look a bit peaked as the evening wore on - but in all fairness, 10 p.m. on the East Coast is only 9 p.m. in Texas. Gore seemed...
...midnight, the press area was clearing out a bit - the die- hards stuck around, registering their parting shots, writing up stories to send back home. More than a few reporters were heard asking about the score of the Yankees-A's game. And as things wound down, I had one question left unanswered by all of tonight's pontificating. Where was the damn coffee in this place...