Word: clarions
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Many trace the erosion of trust back to the counterculture 1960s with its clarion call, "Never trust anyone over 30." But Kate Watts, a London-based marketing expert, says a turning point in the deference offered to those in traditional positions of authority could have come as early as World War I, with its senseless slaughter of a generation of European men. She quotes two lines of a poem by Rudyard Kipling: "If any question why we died,/ Tell them, because our fathers lied." Whatever its roots, today's disdain has implications for companies beyond their corporate image. Watts points...
Sources: National Retail Federation; New York City Mayor's Office; Washington Post; National Comorbidity Study; British Medical Journal (2); Bloomberg; Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger and Louisiana department of insurance
...suspected of spying for the Iranians. But nothing much came of that. Chalabi soon leveraged American disapproval into Baghdad street cred and a burgeoning career as a leader of the Shi'ite coalition. He currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister in Ibrahim al-Jaafari's government. And now-trumpet clarion here-he is coming back to Washington in November at the invitation of Treasury Secretary John Snow. But Chalabi will have potentially more significant meetings with National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and perhaps Condoleezza Rice, both of whom-according to high-ranking Administration officials-believe that he is a plausible...
ILLINOIS SENATOR BARACK OBAMA WROTE that the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in the rebellious states, "was more a military document than a clarion call for justice." Obama's piece failed to describe the complete historical context of the document. Lincoln's ability to end slavery was restricted by the limits of his constitutional power. As Commander in Chief, Lincoln had certain war powers that enabled him to free slaves in territories that had seceded from the Union at the time of the Proclamation. Slavery throughout the U.S., however, could be abolished only by a constitutional amendment--the 13th...
...swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. As a law professor and civil rights lawyer and as an African American, I am fully aware of his limited views on race. Anyone who actually reads the Emancipation Proclamation knows it was more a military document than a clarion call for justice. Scholars tell us too that Lincoln wasn't immune from political considerations and that his temperament could be indecisive and morose...