Word: historicization
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Most attempts to uncover the roots of Islamic rage are unflattering to Islam and to Muslims. In his 1981 book Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul suggested that anger and dispossession are endemic to Islam and easily spill over into fanaticism. For others, Islamic terrorism is the most...
It is remarkable that TIME's list did not include a single West European political leader. In the year 2004, when the European Union will emerge as a new power bloc of 25 nation-states with a total population significantly greater than that of the U.S., such an omission is...
While the events at City Hall did not begin until late last night, nearly a dozen same-sex couples and supporters were camped outside by mid-afternoon, adorning the historic building’s entrance with flowers, beach chairs and decorative swans. National and local media reporters mixed in with...
Fifty years after Brown, the city's storied past as the epicenter of school desegregation remains evident. Still standing is the tidy brick schoolhouse of the once segregated Monroe Elementary, which Linda Brown attended when her father Oliver sued to gain admission for his daughter to an all-white school...
In 1969, when that song soared to the top of the charts, Fidel was the enemy and the Cold War was getting uncomfortably hot in Vietnam and elsewhere. Ten years later, Stills controversially followed through on the message behind those seemingly carefree words he’d once sungâ?...