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...Ankori rarely sits down while lecturing. Instead, he moved around his classroom, gesturing frequently and pausing on occasion to draw a map or answer a question...
...been redirected to all this shameless business with the appearance of Lillian Hellman's memoir Scoundrel Time (on the best-seller list for eight weeks now), which tells the story of her own grilling by HUAC in 1952. As Miller would later do, Miss Hellman said she would answer questions about herself but would refuse to discuss anybody else. In what has become a classic statement, she declared in part: "To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is, to me, inhuman and indecent and dishonorable. I cannot and will...
...immigration policy at all. Thomas Jefferson stated the prevailing view of the matter when he asked: "Shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land?" No, we shall not, was the answer, and so there came the thousands of Irish starved by the potato famine of 1845, and thousands more of Germans oppressed after the uprisings of 1848, and still more thousands of Russian Jews afflicted by the czars' pogroms, and then in 1882 Congress passed the first immigration laws barring lunatics, convicts...
Even with all the money and effort going into the rebuilding of downtowns across the U.S., a hard question remains: Can American cities regain their health? The answer depends in large part on how successful the cities are in stemming -or reversing-the outward flow of middle-class residents. New York, which badly overestimated the market during the office-building boom of the '60s,* has boldly built its "new town" of Roosevelt Island to do just that...
...creating a government or governments that check one man's reason against the reason of his fellows-and to check both against the law, the collective wisdom of generations. Is independence justified? And will it work? The delegates in Philadelphia, and most of their fellow citizens, would answer yes-if man is indeed the rational, moral creature, capable of self-control for the greater good, that the Americans of 1776 believe...