Word: americas
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...America needs to solve its problems by itself and for itself. Making Nigeria bear the cross for some of its inefficiencies is face-saving, but won't guarantee the safety of Americans at home or abroad. Zainab Sandah, ABUJA...
...spends too much time tweeting with people just like him. To call those of us who voted for change in the past election "village idiots" because we think the Democrats' health care plan is a sellout destined to be a fiasco shows how far removed he is from working America...
...decades after World War II, when America was assuming its new role as the center of the known universe, Eero Saarinen was the man who supplied it with an architecture suited to the place where the future happened. For the marquee names of American capitalism - General Motors, IBM, CBS - he designed buildings that were more than just corporate facilities. They were signposts for modernity, theirs and the nation's. For New York City and Washington, Saarinen provided airport terminals that were symbols of the excitement and glamour of air travel. (It was once possible to think of air travel that...
They would also struggle to accommodate it to the appetites of postwar America, an abundant, full-of-itself nation. The country's corporate and institutional élites were open to the idea of seeing their power expressed in a contemporary idiom, with none of the grand and intricate ornament of earlier generations. Yet the bare-bones Modernism that came of age in Europe between the wars was not quite what they were looking...
...Reilly finally appeared together to banter lightly. Audience members ranged from 30-somethings to retirees. Steve Davio, 55, a scientist from the Rochester area, watches The O'Reilly Factor nearly every night. The current "progressive agenda, [with] each incremental step, takes us further and further from an America of self-reliance, land of the free and the home of the brave," he says. "It makes us the land of the weak and the home of the helpless...