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As the vice dean of Howard Law School, Charles H. Houston—the first African American to serve on the Harvard Law Review—trained future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Attorney Oliver Hill, according to Ogletree. Both men played pivotal roles in developing the case against...
Identity Politics in Taiwan Independence for Taiwan is a vexing issue for a variety of reasons [March 15]. An often overlooked but profound problem concerns the ethnic groups living together on the island. The Democratic Progressive Party and the Kuomintang vie for votes-from the Hakka, Taiwanese, mainlanders, aborigines and...
The drumbeat of attacks by insurgents is continuing, averaging 17 a day against U.S. soldiers and Iraqis working with them. There are also attacks against Western civilians, although the number is unknown. At dawn one February morning, two grenades hit a house in western Baghdad where Westerners lived. (The armed...
Ballyhoo aside, a distinction needs to be drawn between imperialism and modernization, too often conflated in the West and elsewhere. Ireland herself provides an instructive example. In the 1600s Oliver Cromwell subjugated the Emerald Isle, massacring thousands of Irish civilians and confiscating most of their landholdings. In the ensuing centuries...
This year, the only movie that I’m guaranteed to line up for on opening weekend is July’s Anchorman, in which Will Ferrell brings his Goulet voice (and its accompanying egomania) to the big screen. People who have seen the script have said...