Word: historicizing
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In Swat, the military has surged ahead of an excruciatingly slow civilian bureaucracy. Soldiers are reconstructing roads, bridges, health centers, water systems and libraries across the valley. The Army has recruited and trained thousands of police officers, and rebuilt 217 of the 400 or so schools destroyed by the Taliban...
And yet it is possible that future historians will see in these combined events - and especially in the consequence of the second one - the beginning of a truly significant turning point in Polish-Russian relations. Should that come to pass, it would represent a geopolitical change in Europe of genuinely...
Eight months after emerging victorious from the fight over his first Supreme Court nominee, Sonia "Wise Latina" Sotomayor, President Obama is gearing up for Round 2. Party bigwigs and advocacy groups are clambering to anoint a successor to Justice John Paul Stevens, the leading liberal on the bench and a...
Shortly after the sun rose that morning, Millage, a real estate agent from northern Idaho, shot the historic wolf. Within a few hours, he started getting angry calls - followed by angrier e-mails and Craigslist threats that included directions to his house - from people who found his contact information on...
The U.S. has not had a uniform experience with Pakistan's generals over the years. Washington's Cold War entanglements with the top brass in Islamabad eventually spawned, with disastrous consequences, the Afghan Taliban. In the war against terrorism, the Pakistan military - with its historic ties to the region's...