Word: isolationism
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Dictatorships need isolation if they hope to resist freedom's onslaught. Fidel Castro's five decades in power were less the product of brilliance and charisma than of U.S.-enforced isolation. Uncle Sam's embargo provided Castro with the shield he needed to survive the demise of the communist bloc...
Three photographs are tacked to the outside foyer of the Lowell House Masters’ residence. The unobtrusively-placed and sepia-toned images, which call to mind memories of the College’s conservative past, capture a newly constructed Lowell House standing in perfect form, sidewalks smooth and bricks...
So, despite being the subject of a new sanctions package adopted by the overwhelming consensus at the Security Council (Indonesia's abstention was the only discordant note), Iran is not feeling particularly isolated or pressured. The Council vote came on the same day that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad concluded his historic...
In 1974, Mark Twain Intermediate School in Brooklyn was served with a desegregation order, mandating that the school maintain a student body whose racial makeup mirrored that of the community—at the time, 70 percent white and 30 percent minority. In subsequent years, Mark Twain was converted into...
Wouldn't it be nice if time on the job and tickets punched translated neatly into superior performance? Then finding great Presidents would be a simple matter of weighing résumés. Take a Democrat like Bill Richardson - experienced in Congress, in the Cabinet, as a diplomat and...