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...answers. Why did the South vote for a Republican “cowboy” President in 2000 and again in 2004? Because of Reconstruction. Why is affirmative action still a hotly contested issue today? Reconstruction again. Why did America in the 80s favor Reganomics? Reconstruction. “This is the book that explains why today’s political map looks like a map of the 1860s,” Richardson writes of “West from Appomattox,” because apparently the pro-Union states are now all Democratic and the current Republican states...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Tedious Reconstruction | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...Sienna Miller, but then I totally accepted it, and even began to think she had good taste in men. This recent embrace of wide-leg pants implies something totally different, however. When I think of wide-leg pants, I don’t think of hipster celebrities or debauched 80s icons, I think of sailors. I also think of Farrah Fawcett and this bizarre time in 5th grade where I wore purple velvet overalls to school. Not exactly a time I like to remember with fond nostalgia considering that I was also wearing a white eye-patch that clipped...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pants, Minds Wide Open | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

KITT, the car from Knight Rider, is up for auction. Bids on the '82 Trans Am (one of four used on camera) start at $150K. But what of its '80s TV brothers in Armor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 23, 2007 | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...other local materials, he engineered innovative, exuberant structures, many with pierced brick screens that dappled light and cooled rooms with natural air movement. Baker's low-cost, eco-friendly style, which became known as the "Baker method," inspired an organization of younger Indian architects that has, since the '80s, built homes for more than 10,000 poor families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 23, 2007 | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

MAGNUM P.I.'S FERRARI 308 AND THE A-TEAM'S GMC VAN Their glory days as mustache-delivery system and crack-commando conveyance behind them, these '80s alpha sleds now gather dust on the Universal Studios back lot, posing for tourist photos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 23, 2007 | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

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