Word: historicizing
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The authorities in Iran think the movie is about them, since their country is the descendant of ancient Persia. A cultural adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad charged the film with "plundering Iran's historic past and insulting this civilization." The newspaper Ayandeh-No ran the headline "Hollywood Declares War on...
Flashback to 2004: it’s high election season and not a single Democrat can come up with a tenable solution to the already sinking war in Iraq. (Yeah John Kerry, 40,000 more troops will probably do the job.) Maybe if Ian Shapiro had written �...
This time, Jack Straw, the former foreign minister and current Leader of the House of Commons, masterminded the proposals, and when they were put to a vote Blair opted for a half-elected, half-appointed Lords. But he was out of step with many in his own party and in...
There has been discussion of moving the historic Dillon Field House, currently occupied by Harvard Athletics, to the desired corner and converting it into a student center. This is a tantalizing idea—integrating an iconic and historic building with modern facilities, as Princeton’s Frist Campus...
The bridge to voting rights was crossed Sunday by the Democrats' top two vote seekers. Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama marched over the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., site of "Bloody Sunday" in 1965, an historic moment in the civil rights battle.