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Arrayed against them was a burgeoning New Right in war paint. It wanted nothing less than to demolish the welfare state, including Social Security, and roll back federal powers over business and the states, while aggressively challenging the communist world, to the brink of war (and beyond). Its intellectual center was the National Review and its founder, William F. Buckley, who started the magazine in 1955 in part to reclaim conservatism from the cranks, conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites who had dragged it into the phosphorescent margins of American politics...
Asked if the closing down of the Wursthaus had anything to do with the Cambridge Savings Bank's plans to demolish the building it was in (please see story, page one), Cardullo said...
...week his forces arrested hundreds of Islamist activists, including seven of 13 big fish that Israel specifically targeted. Arafat even invited Israeli troops to accompany P.A. forces on some raids. In an interview with two Israeli newspapers, Arafat's senior aide, Mahmoud Abbas, said the P.A. was determined to "demolish the vicious organizations" of terrorists. "Enough is enough," he said...
Afrasiabi said he intends to sue the University because, he said, Harvard officials had a "strong intent to demolish my public character...
...believers had to yield in the face of evidence that contradicts their assumptions, though, so have the naysayers. It's a truism in archaeology that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Digging up the past is a hit-or-miss proposition. And one hit can demolish a mountain of skepticism. Among the discoveries that strengthen the Bible's claim to historical accuracy...