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...20th Century...
...August 1945, Harry Truman made the weightiest presidential decision of the 20th century. He later said he never lost a night's sleep over dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima. For that, some critics to this day condemn him for lack of reflectiveness - and worse. I'd call it decisiveness. And in wartime, decisiveness counts for more...
...brigand government in much of Sicily. Though many Italian immigrants had come to the U.S. to avoid just such oppression as the Mafia offers, a few among them formed a new Mafia in the new country. In the crowded 'Little Italys' of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the thugs found easy prey ... Prohibition offered the transplanted Mafiosi the chance they could not have made for themselves. Only they had the organization that could capitalize on the potential of bootlegging ... There was enough intraorganizational feuding to fill a graveyard ... To stop the killing, said [the Mob's modern founding...
...irrelevant. He's got a face that people like and forgive. Arnold is one of the great faces of the 20th and 21st centuries. He's taken humanity to the cyborg stage, truly. Even at the time of Conan, we knew this man was a champion and nothing could stop his will...
...last year and are expected to reap even more money this year. And TV executives, who can smell a quarter buried in a pile of gym socks, have taken notice. "A show like Family Guy could not be justified in the old TV model," says Gary Newman, president of 20th Century Fox TV. "Now we have a new model that allows us to put high-quality programming...