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Well, our right-wing friends have done it again. Holding to the strong tradition of the South Carolina Nullificationists of the early nineteenth century, the Republicans have again assumed the motto, "If at first you don't succeed, secede, secede, secede...
...Semitic museum] is a nineteenth century building and we are trying to operate it as a twentieth century museum," said Green...
Slasher. The word evokes images of the nineteenth-century mass murderer Jack the Ripper, sporting a shiny silver knife and a bloodthirsty eye. Stories of the legendary killer still linger into the late decades of the twentieth century, pervading dime store novels and Grade-B horror movies...
...changed dramatically since the end of the nineteenth century. We no longer have a limitless amount of land or resources. Our competitors have grown stronger in recent decade, and we can ill afford the task of absorbing millions of unskilled, largely uneducated illegal immigrants...
...readers while striving to enlighten them. For, as Williams so wryly noted in Vanity Fair, a Pulitzer Prize winning writer such as Quindlen has the "journalistic equivalent of tenure at Harvard"--she can say anything she pleases without fear of retribution. Yet her writing is strangely reminiscent of the nineteenth century branch of feminism that preached a woman's role to be that of a social reformer, urging readers to wake up to such issues as the plight of children in the inner cities...