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The larger point, however, is that the hubris and destructiveness during these U.S. peaks of a money culture and stock market indexes has been palpable. This was true in the two eras discussed, and also in the similar late 19th century "Gilded Age" of Vanderbilt, Morgan, Carnegie and Astor and...
Nearly everyone now agrees that it makes sense to combine many of the domestic-security responsibilities that are scattered across 22 federal agencies, which employ nearly 170,000 people, consume close to $37.5 billion a year and answer to 88 congressional committees and subcommittees. The various offices and agencies grew...
The tale of Genji is very old and very new, a novel about love and society that also, along with Proust's masterpiece, is one of the world's great representations of the passage of human time. It immerses us deeply in a strange and distant culture, whose graceful decadence...
Pretty easily, according to Peter Kollock, a UCLA professor of sociology who specializes in the Internet. Although cyberlove connotes images of computer geeks and aging spinsters, Kollock claims that digital dalliances follow in the grand literary tradition of Cyrano de Bergerac, Lord Byron and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. �...
Luke Skywalker was not 1977's most popular epic hero; that was Kunta Kinte, the African whom author Alex Haley identified as his ancestor and whose family's 200-year saga became a 12-hr. ABC miniseries that broke ratings records and gave Americans of all shades a serious lesson...