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...NIALL FERGUSON by Michael Elliott...
When Charlie Ferguson was growing up in Beech Grove, Ind., he would help his dad, a connoisseur of spicy food, to plant and tend a backyard crop of chili peppers. So began a lifelong love affair with hot peppers. As an adult, Ferguson found commercial salsa either too salty or not spicy enough for his discerning palate, and he started making his own. By the time he married Glenda Klingensmith eight years ago and moved to her farm in Noblesville, Ind., Ferguson, now 52, was hooked on homemade salsa--so much so that he started planting jalapenos, habaneros, red chilis...
Fortunately, Charlie and Glenda Ferguson had enough cash on hand to start their salsa venture. Bootstrapping the operation, they turned half of a barn into a warehouse early on. And soon enough their product was a barn-burning success--owing in large part to their systematic approach to learning about product labeling, food regulations and licensed co-packing facilities. In 14 months, the company starting ringing up a profit, and the Fergusons were selling their salsa at festivals and bazaars, presenting their product to food stores and winning prizes, including the first-prize People's Preference Award at the International...
Between 1865 and 1935, there were 44 challenges to public school segregation that reached the lower federal courts or high state courts, Klarman said. All were unanimously rejected. In 1896, the nation's highest court decided in Plessy v. Ferguson that “separate but equal facilities,” including public schools, were constitutional...
...gotten in a free society? Can we jettison freedom and equality, old-fashioned virtues as they are? What aspects of humanity get shoved aside in the pursuit of empire? History is important because it shows that society cannot be reduced to those terms; history is not—as Ferguson suggested—reducible to a “balance sheet.” Mao Zedong has been reevaluated as 70 percent good and 30 percent bad; the Chinese man on the street will tell you that he was “still a great person...