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Federal Funds. After a flurry of amendments and confusing votes, the situation in the Senate had become a parliamentarian's nightmare. But the key result was that the antibusing forces had passed, 43 to 40, an amendment sponsored by Michigan Republican Robert Griffin, which so directly challenges the authority...
Rough Justice. In Uganda, Amin is the law, and he is clearly in no hurry to return Uganda to civilian rule. Currently, all Cabinet members are forced to accept commissions as junior officers in the army, which handily makes them subject to courts-martial in cases of malfeasance. Amin, though...
Finally, contrary to Mr. Jago's asseverations, I do hold certain reservations about China. In making a definitive break with its past as a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country the Chinese have made spectacular achievements, but given the very low level at which they started, one travelling in China...
The savagery and vitality of Brazil's past, its "sadism and felicity," become a musky essence that pervades Bodard's writing, even when he deals with the present. People whom he meets or hears about in his travels deserve books of their own. There are the Vilas Boas...
There is nothing quite like a master theory of history to set the old blood coursing. Master Theorist climbs his neat little mountain. He looks down upon the masses-ants, really. He hears the rush of centuries-a mere ticktock. Then he closes eyes and ears tight and pronounces his...