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Time on the Cross is an ambitious enough work to contain a good deal of bad history. Its lapses would be easier to excuse if Fogel and Engerman were not so insistent on the revolutionary nature of their method. Often they exaggerate the myopia of earlier historians, in order to make their own conclusions seem more extraordinary. Their work is not, even in conception, the comprehensive evaluation the authors believe it to be. It is a work with new insights and with new speculation; more of the truth could be discovered if people spent more time thinking about the history...
Hoffmann suggests what features that final view should contain, but first it is important to examine his logic in proposing such a step, which runs directly counter to Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Six Day War. Almost everyone in Israel agrees that withdrawal to something like the pre-Six Day War boundaries has to happen eventually: therefore, if Israel would publicly acknowledge its readiness to return the occupied territories in Sinai and Golan in exchange for various guarantees of security and above all for recognition by Syria and Egypt, it would succeed in shifting the emphasis...
...economical ($175,000, cheap by current prices). The sets are fashioned after La Scala 1969, except that the second act is set in Maometto's tent rather than on his ship. And what a tent it is-opulent red carpets and ottomans, hanging lamps, each big enough to contain a man, table lamps that burn with a molten glow...
...state, Longley launched his closed-door policy to make the point that lobbyists with big-spending notions were no longer welcome. He has sharply trimmed the budget requests of every government department and asked the legislature to consolidate several top administration jobs. But his problem is that he cannot contain his indignation. He infuriated members of both parties when he called a legislator a "common pimp." He also referred to opponents as "criminals" and declared that "it is the professional politicians who prostitute the system." By displaying his pique, he has impaired his cost-cutting program, even though most politicians...
...support entirely after the Nationalists' flight to Taiwan. The flow resumed six months later at the outbreak of the Korean War, reaching a total of $4 billion before it was finally ended in 1965; Washington regarded Chiang as an important ally in the U.S. efforts to contain Communism in Asia...