Word: legacyism
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The impending inauguration of President-Elect Obama provides an opportunity to consider the future of his new administration as well as reflect upon the record of the outgoing administration. I submit that future generations of Americans will appreciate the accomplishments President George W. Bush achieved in the face of the...
Some Were Warriors Zwick was especially rankled by the legacy of Jews as victims, as passive enablers of their own destruction. Thus his attraction for a film about the three elder Bielski brothers, who forged a community of refugee Jews in the Belorussian woods and fought off the soldiers hunting...
Also in a bind is Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate Palestinian President viewed by Israel and the U.S. as a credible partner in peace. Many Palestinians now regard him as an irrelevancy - or worse, a collaborator. Abbas "has staked his political legacy and his vision of the Palestinians finally achieving their...
Professor Huntington, who taught at Harvard for 58 years before retiring in 2007, was a gentle, yet quietly serious, presence in the government department, where he left behind a legacy of academic integrity and commitment to undergraduate education during his tenure, colleagues said.
It's a crippling legacy that is proving hard to unlearn. Many Cabinet ministers still sign off on minutiae like restocking their office supplies, while the lack of digitization in some government bureaus is almost Monty Python-esque. In Diyala, the governorate's billion-dollar budget (the amount is cumulative...