Word: blakes
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...states have only one political party, and 27 African nations are under military rule. Countries ranging from Guinea in West Africa to Somalia in the east have gone so far as to declare dissent a treasonable crime that can be punished by death. Notes British Historian Lord Blake: "The political tradition in many parts of Africa is authoritarian, and that's what has taken over...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Patricia Blake, Tom Callahan, John S. DeMott, William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Stephen Koepp, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, J.D. Reed, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, Anastasia Toufexis, Claudia Wallis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...
...Bland, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Howard G. Chua-Eoan, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, D. Blake Hallanan, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, JoAnn Lum, Katherine Mihok, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Christine Morgan, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Jeannie Park, Michael Quinn, Barry Rehfeld, Theodore P. Roth, Megan Rutherford, Andrea Sachs, David Seideman, Helen O. Sen, David E. Thigpen, Sidney Urquhart...
What sort of person would live in such a house? An 18th century person, in fact, but one whose mind spanned the entire century, adding the late 18th century expansiveness of Blake and Wordsworth to the wary constraints of Pope. The century that began in the Age of Reason ended in the Age of Romanticism, and the Constitution accommodated that severe transition. If the basic text is an Enlightenment document, the Bill of Rights is a homage to Romantic thought, challenging not so much the specifics of the basic Constitution as its earnest sense of permanence. Amendments did not promise...
...Blake P. Allison...