Word: historicizing
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As the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama approaches, every single detail of the ceremony has come under intense scrutiny from supporters and critics alike. Of all the minor controversies that have broken out thus far, the selection of Rick Warren, who has been described as “the...
Surely this wasn't what Barack Obama had in mind when he imagined the days leading up to his historic Inauguration. On Tuesday, the President-elect journeyed to Capitol Hill to try to avoid the possibility that his first act in office will be vetoing a bill passed by both...
Things could not have gone more smoothly for Secretary of State-nominee Hillary Clinton in her Senate confirmation hearings on Tuesday. Completely on top of her brief, Clinton was masterful on issues as obscure as America's arctic territorial concerns and the Law of the Sea treaty, and she deftly...
The President used the word in one sense or another more than a dozen times in the course of his parting exchange with the White House media corps. But it was the quality, rather than the quantity, of its use that was most telling. The more he uttered disappointment, the...
In the face of historic declines in Harvard’s endowment, “to see real estate acquisition continuing is quite a development,” Mattison added.