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...much as half of the country eight years after being routed by the U.S.-led invasion is a sign that the local population is at least more tolerant of an insurgency against foreign forces. Expanding the ground war may not solve this problem. As University of Michigan historian Juan Cole wrote last week, "The U.S. counter-insurgency plan assumes that Pashtun villagers dislike and fear the Taliban, and just need to be protected from them so as to stop the politics of intimidation. But what if the villagers are cousins of the Taliban and would rather support their clansmen than...
...they were taking a shower. Holocaust experts have also linked the Sobibor guards to mass executions. "The guards were involved in the extermination process - the Nazis had few personnel in the death camps and the people who were there played an integral part in genocide," Dr. Edith Raim, a historian at Munich's Institute of Contemporary History, tells TIME...
...Historian H.W. Brands of the University of Texas points to the demise of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 as an unfortunate tipping point of deregulation. Glass-Steagall, passed in 1933, separated investment banking and plain-vanilla banking, which some experts argued made markets safer. (Certain restrictions of Glass-Steagall were repealed to allow the merger of Citicorp and Travelers. Let's just say that didn't end well.) "That was the single moment when the seeds for the bad stuff were planted," says Brands. "There was a belief that technology, the Internet and financial instruments had changed things...
...Sarkozy cites Jean Jaurès here to better apply National Front [a far-right French party] ideas there, and his choice of Camus for the Panthéon is also clearly rooted in a purely political logic rather than an intellectual one," says François Cusset, a historian and philosophy expert who teaches American studies at the University of Paris-Nanterre...
...Nonetheless, his no-holds-barred polemics made him popular with Bangkok's poor and lower-middle-class voters, who elected him governor in 2001 with over 1 million votes, the largest number in the city's history. "He's a lower-middle-class hero," says historian Chris Baker, author of Thailand, Economy and Politics. "He appeals to street vendors, small shopkeepers, minor officials and people working in the informal sector. They like him because he sounds off; he speaks his mind. He's a source of entertainment, but he's also a ranter and a thug...