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...will be of enormous benefit to have as a colleague in this effort a distinguished historian of President Faust’s expertise and temperament. Not only will she be able to ground our moment of openness in the longer story of human aspiration; as a specialist in the American Civil War, she will know how to anticipate, confront, and find consensus on issues that unnerve and divide...
...Jaroslaw says he needs four more years to root out the uklad. Pawel Zalewski, a senior PIS official, likens the effort to the French purge of Nazi collaborators after liberation in 1944. "It's a question of security and trust at home and abroad," he told TIME. Polish social historian Adam Mielczarek observes that the PIS appeals to ordinary Poles in the same way that the Solidarity movement did in the early 1980s: by telling them "that there is a problem of élites ruling the country...
...occurred a few decades later. In 1911, the Mohun Bagan football squad won the prestigious Indian Football Association Shield tournament - once the preserve of whites-only clubs - toppling the crack East Yorkshire Regiment, the best British team in India, barefoot in the final. Boria Majumdar, India's leading sports historian and author of Goalless, a history of Indian football, describes it as "India's Lagaan moment" - referring to the 2001 Bollywood blockbuster about a fictional cricket-playing village that beat the ruling British at their own game. This was real life, however, and Kolkata erupted in cele-brations, with Hindus...
Since his success at the Tate, projects have proliferated-a light wall for the Oslo Opera House, a kind of artwork/observatory tower in London, the sets for a touring opera. Eliasson lives in Copenhagen with his wife, an art historian, and the two children they adopted from Ethiopia. But his studio is in Berlin, where he employs 30 or more people. On any given day he may collaborate with technicians, architects and mathematicians. Yet the finished product is often remarkably simple. You could say that some combination of straightforward means and subtle effects is the signature of Eliasson's best...
Nicholas Handler’s prize-winning essay was written in response to an article by historian Rick Perlstein arguing that American college campuses are no longer the incubators of radical thought they were in the 1960s because of a modern-day obsession with market-centered thinking...