Word: reconstructionism
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What sets South Africa apart from other experiments in democracy is the deliberateness with which it has engineered its own transformation. The government might have chosen showy spending -- and perhaps should have, in the case of building houses and medical clinics -- but as Jay Naidoo, the minister responsible for the...
Nelson Mandela has arrived at an estate in the wine country outside Cape Town where he will dine and speak on economic reconstruction to 75 mostly white businessmen and bankers. He receives a standing ovation. Politely acknowledging the applause, he samples a glass of sweet Weisser Riesling 1993 and jokes...
The Deal defection is part of a larger movement that has made the current Congress the first since Reconstruction in which Republicans hold a majority of the 125 House seats that span the old Confederacy. Deal is also emblematic of the loss to the Democratic Party of the much sought...
Designed by the French, bombed by the Americans and never appreciated by the Russians, Hanoi not so long ago was written off by outsiders as a crumbling bunker for Vietnam's communist leaders. No more. These days the capital's colonial villas and tree-lined boulevards catch the sentimental eye...
Barzun said his ideal reconstruction of the Core would challenge its current philosophy. But he added that "given the bureaucratic nightmare that is Harvard, we'll seek more minor reform."