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...freedom," explaining its extraordinary sacrifices in a way that provided a renewed basis for attachment to a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Perhaps the compromises made by the founding generation with the institution of slavery would have proved fatal in any case. Still, the fact is that the U.S. was unable to perpetuate its political institutions peacefully after those who had lived through the Revolution died and even secondhand memories of America's founding faded...
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ’38—prolific historian, noted Harvard professor, and a prominent “fighting liberal” throughout the 1950s and 60s, suffered a fatal heart attack during dinner with his family on February...
...powerful committee, the Standing Committee on General Education (SCGE). There is little reason to believe that the SCGE will not precisely replicate the Core’s incoherence. As the Core’s disintegration demonstrates, failing to spell out details of implementation is a fatal error. The Standing Committee on the Core Program (SCCP), the body responsible for the Core’s original introduction and ongoing administration, has become a bureaucratic roadblock, as demonstrated by its repeated refusal to grant Core exemptions to students who have taken departmental courses equivalent to—or harder than?...
...showdown between the Lebanese army and the Fatal al-Islam group began at 7 a.m. Friday morning when the army started shelling the camp very heavily. The soldiers have several 155-mm artillery guns on a hill about five kilometers to the east with a clear view of the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, where the radical Islamist group has been holed up for two weeks after initiating a series of attacks on government forces. Although Fatah al-Islam has past links to al-Qaeda, the Lebanese government says it has evidence that Syrian intelligence operatives are coordinating with...
...intifadeh, which began in 2000, sending suicide bombers to blow up hundreds of Israeli civilians. Militants say that in the camp they have no shortage of young volunteers eager for martyrdom. As a parent, Omar says the last thing he wants is for his young kids to heed the fatal, seductive call of the suicide-bomb recruiters...