Word: reconstructionism
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Penick had a far more important matter pending with the state government: the extension of branch banking. Arkansas' banking law, dating from Reconstruction, prohibited bank branches anywhere beyond the city limits of the city where the bank was incorporated; this was a populist measure designed to encourage and protect small...
So extraordinary, in fact, that in briefing Clinton in Washington last week, Admiral Leighton Smith, NATO's Bosnia commander, hinted at "moving people out of there" before the mission's scheduled wrap-up in December. But while Smith can claim success for the military side, the civilian operation is another...
When Edgar Lee Masters' classic novel Spoon River Anthology first appeared in 1915, it had the popular advantage of topicality but was freighted with scandal. Masters had compiled reminiscences portraying all the virtues and vices of small town life during the Civil War and Reconstruction and some of the tales...
Could the novel be a reconstruction limned by a writer who saw the campaign documentary The War Room eight times and read every published word on the campaign? I doubt it. There are scenes that are just too nuance filled to be rendered in such perfect-pitch fashion by even...
AUSTIN: Finally succumbing to the multiple sclerosis which had crippled her for the last several years, former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan died on Wednesday. She was 59. The daughter of a Baptist minister, Jordan attained national prominence for her ringing oratory during the Watergate hearings in 1974 and a keynote address...