Word: historicizing
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The most iconic presidential photographs are both profoundly personal and indelibly historic. They belong, all at once, to the subject, the photographer and the public. Think of JFK stooped, exhausted over his desk in the Oval Office during the Cuban Missile Crisis, or of a disgraced Richard Nixon waving, both...
While it remains extremely unlikely that the Varela demands would be adopted, it's a sign of an emerging civil society in Cuba challenging the communist party's monopoly on power. That's a development that has been consciously encouraged by the Catholic Church in the years since Pope John...
French CEO Edouard Michelin is no revolutionary, but he is fomenting unprecedented change at his family's eponymous tire company. Long known for its paternalistic, authoritarian and secretive management style, the 113-year-old firm has become much more open since the 39-year-old scion's ascension to the...
Encouraged, Carter tried to arrange a meeting with Castro when Bill Clinton was in the White House - only to have Vice President Al Gore shut him down. Eventually, Castro extended a verbal invitation to Carter when they were honorary pallbearers at the October 2000 funeral of former Canadian Prime Minister...
It's hard to resist the charge that this sort of thinking is exactly what the Hindu extremists and their sympathizers in the Bharatiya Janata Party national government are trying to encourage. A central tenet of their Hindu purification campaign has been a breathtakingly hypocritical insistence that Islam is the...