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Historian David McCullough, author of The Great Bridge, at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: "If you could pick the Brooklyn Bridge up and turn it over, you'd see stamped there MADE IN THE U.S.A. It was built by people who had a profound self-regard, which they...
The final anguish of these exiles, caught between the promises of the New World and the curses of the Old, was in belonging to neither. Nonetheless, the refugees, living out of their spiritual suitcases, made significant contributions to their adopted country. If American innocence has been tempered into something less...
The seamless surfaces of Holbein's paintings hide the machinery, as they were meant to do. For the first impulses, the slow probings and swift appraisals of a face, one must consult the drawings: something easier said than done in America until now. Although there are paintings by Holbein...
More than one-third of American investment in the African continent is concentrated in South Africa alone. American corporations pay taxes to the government, and foreign loans help finance South Africa's purchases abroad. In addition, although U.S. investments account for a relatively small proportion of total foreign capital in...
The report acknowledges European fears that a nuclear exchange on the battlefield could not be limited and would quickly turn into a continent-wide holocaust. It suggests that a buildup of conventional forces is a credible alternative because it would provide NATO commanders with a greater range of options for...