Word: restorationism
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Not very tightly, it turned out. The issue that broke the coalition was how to restore the Supreme Court judges dismissed by Musharraf late last year, when he feared they could deem his reelection as President unconstitutional. While Sharif's party has insisted on their immediate and unconditional reinstatement, the...
Muna Hassan, the head of a committee working on the restoration of pieces returned by Syria, says that further negotiations are now in the works with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Italy and Germany. So far, Ali says roughly 4,000 stolen pieces have been returned to the museum...
That restoration of Whit Monday as a public holiday has meanwhile created another phenomenon favored by the French: the transformation of the long-weekend "bridge" into an even longer "viaduct." With Whit Monday falling on May 12 this year, the four-day weekend set to begin with the Victory Day...
The centerpiece of the show, both physically and metaphorically, is a pair of epic paintings, The Second of May and The Third of May. The latter, focusing on a white-shirted guerrilla with his arms stretched out in terror before a firing squad of French soldiers, is a classic of...
Moreover, African Americans made greater economic progress before they jumped political hurdles. The percentage of African American families below the poverty line dropped 40 percentage points between 1940 and 1960, before Congress passed any important civil rights legislation.But from 1960 to 1980, the poverty rate among African American families fell...