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...United States, a surprisingly large number in this age of personalized, on-the-go media, but many people don't even know they exist. Today, the industry is just a glimmer of what it was once. Back in the 1950s, at the height of the drive-in era, there were 4,000 theaters showing first-run films - it was a marriage of two great American passions: automobiles and movies. The drive-in appealed to everyone - tired parents, who didn't have to show up in the appropriate social dress code; teenagers, who just wanted a place to hang out with...
...integration of the world's economy over the past two decades has made imposing sanctions a far more daunting challenge today than it had been during the anti-apartheid era. Whereas most of the major foreign investors in South Africa during the 1980s had been U.S. and European corporations, effective sanctions today would require support from the world's emerging economies, particularly in Asia, where the tactic is unpopular. "The appetite for international sanctions has decreased massively in the last 10 or 15 years because it's seen as much more difficult to enforce," says Thomas Cargill of the London...
...world will express outrage at Zimbabweans' fate, and likely draw up stringent economic and diplomatic sanctions. But neither is likely to save Zimbabweans from their government - and that is proof of the end of an era. In 1999, the U.N. launched successful military interventions to stem bloodshed in Kosovo, East Timor and Sierra Leone. That was in keeping with a declaration the year before by then U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan hailing a "new century of human rights." "No government has the right to hide behind national sovereignty in order to violate the human rights or fundamental freedoms...
Born in Boston in 1915 to a portrait-painter mother and a father who designed yachts and airplanes, Tudor became obsessed when she was a child with mid--19th century living. She collected costumes from the era and learned its crafts and folkways. As an adult, she lived without running water or electricity until the youngest of her four children was 5. Since 1972, she had lived in a house that her son Seth built using only hand tools...
...reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Its confounding syntax aside, Scalia said the fact that the Amendment is framed in a military context is "unremarkable" given the era's martial climate. His argument, says Northwestern Law School professor John McGinnis, is rooted in the judicial philosophy of originalism: "When there really isn't clear precedent, you look at what this meant at the time," McGinnis says. "Scalia's point is that there's nothing to suggest [that arming...