Word: rebirth
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...says David Skeel, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America. "It was a very flexible reorganization process." It was also a uniquely American answer to business failure. The private sector took the lead. Reinvention--and rebirth--was the goal. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...death and rebirth of American liberalism both began with flags in Grant Park. On Aug. 28, 1968, 10,000 people gathered there to protest the Democratic Convention taking place a few blocks away, which was about to nominate Lyndon Johnson's Vice President, Hubert Humphrey, thus implicitly ratifying the hated Vietnam War. Chicago mayor Richard Daley had warned the protesters not to disrupt his city and denied them permits to assemble, but they came anyway. All afternoon, the protesters chanted and the police hovered, until about 3:30, when someone climbed a flagpole and began lowering the American flag...
...renewed confidence in the progress of American civil rights, there is virtually no part of me that is happy Obama has won. Still, the sense of hope that we progressive conservatives must now rally around is that Obama’s victory presents a chance for our own ideological rebirth. Ironically, it is to the vision of the old John McCain to which we must turn, or else we will be facing down many more disheartening election cycles like this...
Despite recommendations set forth in a February report about new student parents, the maternity process for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is still awaiting a rebirth. Graduate Student Council president Kyle M. Brown said a committee is currently fine-tuning the details of “two halves” of the parental accommodation policy: providing access to affordable childcare and paid time off for new student parents. According to the report issued by the Joint Student Committee on Parental Accommodation, 50 percent of surveyed GSAS student parents saw their stipends lapse while on leave and 40 percent...
...Ortega's unlikely political rebirth, which saw him regain the presidency in 2007 after 17 years in the proverbial political desert, has been accompanied by an even unlikelier religious awakening. Ortega, pundits say, sees himself as a messianic figure sent to deliver the poor of Nicaragua to the "promised land," as his past campaigns have promised...