Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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I am thankful that women across America did not fall for the McCain campaign’s gender-politics pandering, but I also hope that the country will give women another chance at the presidency. As this nation moves into a new era with an African-American man in the...
Barack Obama's sister has not emerged in public since the death of their grandmother two days before her brother's historic presidential election, but in a post-election e-mail to close friends, Maya Soetoro-Ng said, "I wept tears of joy for all of us on Tuesday. He...
Chen's arrest comes at a sensitive political moment in Taiwan. A top Chinese envoy came to Taiwan last week to sign landmark trade pacts, a historic visit that was marred by violent protests from opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supporters who are wary of any moves to draw closer...
In a teleconference last week among more than 100 gay legal scholars and others who support gay marriage, the mood was dour. "This has cast a pall" over what had otherwise been a historic election on Nov. 4, said D'Arcy Kemnitz, executive director of the National Lesbian Gay Law...
Berlusconi's apparent attempt at humor sparked charges of racism from political opponents, though most inside and outside Italy simply shook (or buried) their heads at the terrible timing - both historic and comedic - of such a remark in the wake of Obama's election as the first black U.S. President...