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...know about the history of the pilgrims, the settlement of the 13 colonies and the American Revolution. Yet how many American students know about the history of expansion in the Southwest, the discrimination against Mexicans in public schools and the social, economic and political exclusion of this group when settlers took over their land? How can we study who we are and where we come from without looking at the complete picture...
...sixth day, I was very hungry, but the thirst was even worse. I was coming to a settlement but didn't know what kind. I saw a spring of water near a house. I couldn't focus my eyes as I went to it to drink. I heard young girls passing; one of them cried, "Mehmet, coffee is ready." A stone fell from my heart; they were Muslims. The dog with them ran at me, and I climbed a tree. Two men came with a gun. "Help me, brothers," I said. "I'm completely unarmed." When they'd called...
...issue of whether the U.S. would be willing to enforce the Paris agreement by retaliating militarily against violations on the MIA issue and others. Kissinger drafted letters, which Nixon signed, making such pledges to South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. "We will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam," read one sent in January 1973, and that helped persuade Thieu to sign the peace accord. But Kissinger and Nixon kept these letters secret from Congress -- and even from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As it turned out, Congress was unwilling to authorize force either...
...result, the novelist's only immortal achievement, Hawkeye, who was born Natty Bumppo in a colonial settlement but was raised by a Mohican family, has at last a context worthy of his importance as a mythic figure. This character, blending the Old World tradition of gallantry with the New World's belief in the moral supremacy of those who live in close harmony with nature, is our Ur- frontiersman, the archetype on whom everyone from William S. Hart to Clint Eastwood has fashioned his variations...
...should the Exxon Valdez settlement money be spent...