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...Schlesinger Library is an absolutelyremarkable collection and I think that Mary MaplesDunn's appointment is a real coup for thelibrary," said Sidney Verba '53, director of theUniversity Library...
...called a press conference. The reporters pushed hard and uncovered a major scandal. They pressed for some information in order to do this, but it was information which they felt was valuable to their readers. In doing so, the pair became stars in probably the biggest investigative reporting coup ever...
...also represents something of a palace coup. The Gang's return is the latest and by far the strongest indication that the star of Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes is eclipsing that of his nominal boss, Leon Panetta. One of Panetta's first acts last summer was to all but roust the consultants from the West Wing. He barred them from appearing on TV or in the Oval Office without his permission, and he conducted a none-too-private search for people to replace them. But Ickes had different ideas. In recent weeks he and his protege, newly appointed...
...Alamo, Mexicans see past and present as an eternal tug-of-war with their northern neighbor. Virtually any Mexican high school graduate readily recites a litany of humiliations most Americans ignore: the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo forcing the sale of Mexico's northern half; a 1911 U.S.-supported coup; American invasions in 1914 and 1916; the expulsion of as many as 1 million Mexican immigrants from the U.S. during the 1950s' Operation Wetback. Now California's Proposition 187, aimed at denying education and health services to undocumented immigrants, is seen as an exercise in ethnic cleansing. ``History is taught...
...enthusiasm people had in 1990 right up until the coup was so positive. The U.S. was talking not only to Soviet leaders, but also to Soviet people." said Yavlinsky. "The relationship between two presidents is a good thing, but the people are more important...