Word: reconstructing
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What Reeves has done is to tell the story of the Nixon presidency by focusing on key decisions and then, through a meticulous examination of logs, diaries, official memorandums and, of course, the White House tapes, reconstruct the events that both preceded and followed those decisions. The idea, he explains, is to try to re-create what it must have been like to have been President Nixon. Reeves used the same technique in writing brilliantly about John Kennedy's presidency, and what emerges from this new masterpiece of research is a distillation of Nixon and his men, making a kind...
...their misery, many Afghans came to blame "the great American betrayal." They had fought on the front line of America's war; then America had walked away leaving them with a desolated country. The U.S., and the democratic West, did virtually nothing to reconstruct Afghanistan, too busy with post-cold war demands to pay attention to the needs of a landlocked, Texas-size country of 25 million tucked far away in Central Asia...
...their misery, many Afghans came to blame "the great American betrayal." They had fought on the front line of America's war; then America had walked away leaving them with a desolated country. The U.S., and the democratic West, did virtually nothing to reconstruct Afghanistan, too busy with post-cold war demands to pay attention to the needs of a landlocked, Texas-size country of 25 million tucked far away in Central Asia...
...seek to reconstruct our lives after the events of Sept. 11, it is important not to let confusion, intimidation or fear rule our actions. Instead, we must preserve the freedoms and liberties that have characterized this country. Calls for new security measures—at any cost —are now easy to make; it is much harder to preserve our basic civil liberties...
...tribesmen - recently completed another field season. But they estimate that it will take another 10 to 15 years just to uncover all the buildings at Mahram Bilqis and the surrounding pathways - and even then most of the site will remain unexplored. Eventually, the Yemeni government plans to restore and reconstruct the sanctuary in hopes of transforming it into what Glanzman calls "an eighth wonder of the world" - a tourist attraction comparable to the Pyramids or the Acropolis. (Yemen's political instability, though, makes that scenario unlikely anytime soon.) It also intends to petition unesco to designate Mahram Bilqis...