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...Modern California was born. More important, the Gold Rush was a ratification of the most fantastical version of the American Dream, the yearning for instant fortune and easy prosperity, for extreme liberty and land free for the taking from the natives. When they heard the news out of California, Marx and Engels understood that this bizarre phenomenon was another way in which the U.S. might not conform to their view of economic history inevitably unfolding. Engels wrote to Marx that the discovery of gold was a case "not provided for in the Manifesto: the creation of large new markets...
...tons. Nine days later, a treaty was signed ending the U.S. war with Mexico--our first elective war, first imperial war--in one stroke extending the U.S. from the Texas border to the Pacific. At the same moment in London, meanwhile, a 29-year-old German philosopher named Karl Marx and his 27-year-old textile manufacturer friend Friedrich Engels published a pamphlet they called the Communist Manifesto. And days later, revolutions broke out in Europe, first in Paris, which overthrew the French monarchy, and then in several dozen other places on the Continent...
...founding director of Partners in Health (PIH), a medical charity with offices around the world, Farmer was presented the honor at the Belo Mansion in Dallas, Texas. He will use the money to help make up for disparities in the organization’s budget, PIH spokesman Andrew Marx said. Farmer’s method of treating patients with multi-variable tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, developed during his time at PIH, revolutionized the approach to the diseases in the public health profession, putting patient care before cost, according to Arthur Kleinman, Rabb professor of anthropology and Farmer’s adviser...
...degrees of humanity and emotion.” The two comics met on the set of “Saturday Night Live” when Koechner was a cast member and Gruber was a guest writer. They shared a love for ensemble comedy like Monty Python and the Marx Brothers, and hit it off. Before Comedy Central signed them for their first season on television, the pair developed the show live at a small club in Los Angeles, where they still regularly perform. The show features material largely imported from the stage show but cropped to fit within the constraints...
...continuously packed café? No. Touché. Freshmen girls giggle at the countertops with their non-fat, sugar-free, mocha chip frozen lattes, biology students converge at desktop computers to browse YouTube instead of their missed lecture videos, and Social Studies 10 types gather in the back with Marx and Durkheim in hand, but who are they kidding...