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...20th Century,” that he believed that the military buildup was consistent with his reluctance to commit forces abroad.“I did not arm to attack,” he wrote. “We armed so that we could negotiate from strength, defend freedom, and make war less likely.”Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61, who served as chairman of Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984, praised Weinberger’s defense policies, calling him “a powerful intellectual...
...stone-throwing agitators who set off the civil war known as the Fronde ended up giving birth to the centralized state of Louis XIV by rallying another strange coalition: civil servants, already then jealously guarding their privileges; local nobility who, like today's regional presidents, were set on defending their fiefdoms against centralization; and the middle classes, crushed by the weight of onerous taxation. Historians and sociologists have long claimed that May '68 vaccinated the Fifth Republic against instability and upheaval. But look at recent years. First, the far right has a strong showing in the 2002 presidential elections, then...
Zepeda, who always has been active in the Hispanic community as a board member for RAZA, Latinas Unidas and Concillio Latino, says she constantly had to defend her identity as a political conservative...
...there?s a reason no Senator has won the Presidency since John F. Kennedy. The Senate offers a vehicle to launch many policy ideas, but also forces candidates to declare their views on nearly everything, defend the residents of the states that put them in the Senate and be a team player with their colleagues. And that?s a tricky balance. Even while proposing lots of bills to combat spending, McCain late last year proposed $2 million to create a center at an Arizona law school in honor of former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, which some have derided...
...hostile to any attempt to secure converts. That may fly in the face of the principle of religious freedom, just as the furor over the Danish cartoons challenged the principle of freedom of speech, but there's little doubt that any appearance of Western powers seeking to defend the right of Christians to proselytize in Muslim lands would touch off a similar response in places such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, frontline allies in the war on terror. The Abdul Rahman case highlights the limits on the freedom the U.S. has brought to Afghanistan, and will raise...