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The opulent élite of powerful Filipino families that have governed the nation for decades date back to the Spanish and American colonial period. But local warlords became an increasingly visible feature on the political landscape after independence in 1946. The Pacific war had just ended, and the country was...
When he visited Afghanistan in 1993, a journey that fired thousands of young Muslim men with jihadist zeal, the Soviet occupation had ended, and al-Awlaki was depressed by poverty and hunger in the homes where he stayed. "My impression was that he didn't like it there," says Abdul...
When the French talk about love, it's hard to stop them. And no one should try when the French are speaking in one of the dozens of feature films written and directed by Eric Rohmer. The characters in his films were eloquent, addled, obsessively pursuing a line of romantic...
Did your thesis change as the recession evolved? The recession validated some of the arguments. One reason that the economy ran off the rails was because of these high-stakes rewards for short-term payoffs. When that went on for too long, it ended up having collateral consequences on the...
The objects in question consist mostly of seashells, many of them pierced, with bits of pigment on them. It's always possible that the pigment was simply present in the soil where the shells ended up - but then you'd expect the coloring to be widespread. In fact, it's...