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This was especially true during the cold war, which was both a moral crusade and a strategic balance-of-power struggle. This combination justified a procession of interventions, from Korea to Vietnam to Grenada. Having triumphed in its global struggle with the Soviets, the U.S. gained the opportunity to put...
In October 1990, party leader L.K. Advani escalated his campaign: he led a 6,200-mile procession across India in support of the movement to build the Rama temple. Lethal riots followed, but the extremist spasm had its desired effect. In 1991 the Bharatiya Janata Party won four state governments...
These days, when political influence is measured in minutes of face time with Bill Clinton, rival job seekers jealously track the comings and goings at the Governor's mansion in Little Rock. More than a few of them took note when, amid the procession of Senators and big campaign contributors...
GOOD INTENTIONS ARE SOMETIMES BLINDSIDED, BUT rarely so spectacularly. Expressing revulsion toward a wave of antiforeigner violence that has spread across their nation this year, 300,000 German demonstrators -- nearly four times the number expected -- converged in Berlin's Lustgarten to rally for goodwill. But in full view of world...
Graney claims that the paintings of Caravaggio and Michelangelo, as well as the writings of Roshi Jiyu-Kennett of Shasta Abbey, inspired her to choreograph "Faith." Perhaps because of these visual and intellectual sources of inspiration, "Faith" seems more like a procession of portraits and ideas than a display of...