Word: historicization
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Some observers believe that if the Democrats win the presidency in 2008, the clash between a more conservative Supreme Court and a more liberal White House and Congress might reach historic proportions. "You could have significant conflict between the court and the political branches, one that we probably haven't...
The biggest question is how the Bush administration will respond to the new opportunity. In the Arab view, the U.S. must now encourage or pressure Olmert for the concessions -on withdrawal from the West Bank, for example - needed to achieve a historic settlement with the Palestinians. Even the optimists acknowledge...
Osama bin Laden has been urging Al-Qaeda followers to open up shop in Somalia for years, but there was always doubt about whether that call would resonate in a largely secular nation with a historic wariness of Arab interference. No longer. After January's attacks by Ethiopia--which were...
There are bad ideas, and then there are true historic stinkers. Put the International Space Station in that second category.
On Super Bowl Sunday in early February, there was little Drew Gilpin Faust could do to lose. With her husband by her side and her mutt Clio on a leash, the business-suit-clad Faust strolled down Brattle Street, the historic Victorian way to the west of Harvard Yard. Outside...