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Throughout the 1790s, the Hamilton-Jefferson feud continued to fester in both domestic and foreign affairs. Jefferson thought Hamilton was "bewitched" by the British model of governance, while Hamilton considered Jefferson a credulous apologist for the gory excesses of the French Revolution. Descended from French Huguenots on his mother's side, Hamilton was fluent in French and had served as Washington's liaison with the Marquis de Lafayette and other French aristocrats who had rallied to the Continental Army. The French Revolution immediately struck him as a bloody affair, governed by rigid, Utopian thinking. On Oct. 6, 1789, he wrote...
...press, the national leaders appeared close to agreement on a compromise candidate, the mild-mannered Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Dur?o Barroso, 48. Barroso's support for the war in Iraq meant he had to overcome the reservations of the French and Spanish leaders, since deep differences still fester over Iraq. The new constitutional treaty, which will face referendums in 10 states - including, it was announced recently, Spain and Portugal - isn't enough to set a clear direction for the E.U. In other words, if there was ever a time for strong leadership at the center, this...
...things stayed that way until what some anthropologists have called humanity's worst mistake: the invention of agriculture. We now had a steady source of food, but there were downsides as well. For one thing, our ancestors began gathering in much larger population centers, where bacteria and viruses could fester. Small bands of hunter-gatherers can spread disease only so far, but the birth of cities made epidemics possible for the first time...
...exactly the kind of war the U.S. managed to avoid in toppling Saddam Hussein. While America's strategy worked well at the time--U.S. troops bypassed Iraqi cities on their way to Baghdad and didn't even pass through Sunni-dominated Fallujah--it has allowed the insurgency to fester. The Marines came to the Euphrates River town last month hoping to show a kinder face to residents than they had experienced at the hands of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division. But after the slaughter of four American contractors in Fallujah early this month, U.S. commanders decided to reclaim...
...they might, Square Residents cannot forget Real Taco. Painful images of its mercifully brief stay still fester in our minds—the liquid guacamole squirting from ketchup bottles, the inexplicable mélange of salad bar leftovers masking a meager amount of grey chicken and the universal look of shock and anger prompted by the bill...