Word: reconstructionism
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No Obligation. Hanoi also insists -though not as a condition for diplomatic relations-that the U.S. provide $3.2 billion in reconstruction aid which, it claims, was promised by the Nixon Administration in 1973 just after the signing of the Paris peace agreement.
"Many of Wilson's claims about human nature do not arise from objective observation (either of universals in human behavior or of generalities throughout animal societies), but from a speculative reconstruction of human prehistory. This reconstruction includes the familiar themes of territoriality, big-game hunting with females at home minding...
"Reconstruction": Any description of human life in the past must be a reconstruction. Any attempt to describe the nature of selection pressures in populations that could not be observed directly must be based on inference. Yet archeology and paleontology have made progress nevertheless. Overall, Wilson's account is more cautious...
1) The territory the M.P.L.A. is now entering is the traditional heartland of the Ovimbundu tribe. Tribal loyalties in Angola are strong, and the M.P.L.A. would have trouble administering the area without Savimbi's help. Even worse, the M.P.L.A. would have to deal with guerrilla activity, a debilitating prospect...
It's Monday, and Alan Brinkley is midway through grading a stack of 75 exams from History 1653, "The Civil War and Reconstruction." The exam was given Friday afternoon, and Brinkley has to have a list of grades to David Donald, the course's professor, by Wednesday. He also has...