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...immigrant-filled banlieues as "scum." He'll be trying to maintain his new, conciliatory tone until the runoff, even as the Socialists remind voters of the divisive talk he favored when he was romancing the right. Royal, for her part, wants the state to fund a massive job-creation program for the millions of young people who currently can't find employment. Outside her camp, her emphasis on equality and social peace doesn't engender fear of conflict, but neither does it inspire hope of creating the dynamic growth that France needs. For now, Sarkozy's hand seems stronger than...
...reason was the distinctive demographic pattern that began to take shape by the last quarter of the 17th century. Virginia and the other Southern states were the only large-scale slave regimes in which white settlers, committed to the creation of a new social order, remained in the majority and thus had no incentive to create alliances with free blacks or mixed populations. The second reason is offered by Yale historian Edmund Morgan in his celebrated study of Virginia: the élite, fearful of an insurrectionary union of white servants and slaves, actively promoted racism and a racially exclusive popular...
...contradictions in the growth of American democracy. The region with the most vibrant democracy, and the largest electorate, was deeply committed to large-scale slavery and the strong conviction that there was no inconsistency between liberty and slavery. For black Americans the consequences were tragic and lasting. Jamestown's creation instilled in the broader culture the belief that African Americans, even though they were among the earliest arrivals, did not belong to the body politic and were to be permanently excluded from all basic rights of citizenship...
...Israeli efforts to excise the ‘cancer’ of Hezbollah proved as deadly as misapplied chemotherapy for a cancer patient.†This line and others like it are not only out of place, but completely unnecessary. Still, Norton presents a solid history of the creation of Hezbollah, the context in which it developed, its current place in the Middle East and the world, and his predictions for its future. For those looking for a background of this prominent group, “Hezbollah: A Short History†provides a thorough yet terrifically brief...
...upstart company providing the technology, Netvibes, announced yesterday the creation of more than 100 “universes,†widget-packed portals tailored for users such as washingtonpost.com addicts, Mandy Moore fanatics, or, in this case, Harvard students...