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...tempting to view that headlong progress as integral to the human condition, but it was not always so. For the most part, cultural development has moved more slowly than glaciers, imperceptible to those who participated in it. As the historical philosopher Ronald Wright observed, for 99.5% of mankind's existence "the human world that individuals entered at birth was the same as the one they left at death." Nothing ever changed, for generation upon generation...
...Ronald Reagan signed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, making it a federal crime, under certain circumstances, to reveal the identity of a covert U.S. operative. The act remained mostly dormant until special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald was appointed in December 2003 to determine whether anyone in the Bush Administration broke the law by telling journalists that Valerie Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, an opponent of the Iraq war, was a CIA officer...
...Ronald Knox, the celebrated British mystery writer and author of the “Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction” (1929) concluded those commandments with the following: “Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them...
...years off to have her three sons, then went back to work as an assistant state attorney general. At the same time, she became active in Republican Party politics, in time becoming the first woman in U.S. history to be elected majority leader of the state senate. When President Ronald Reagan was looking for a woman to name to the Supreme Court, O'Connor was one of the few with judicial and conservative Republican credentials. So despite vocal opposition during her confirmation hearings from abortion foes, who protested her opposition to Arizona laws that would have banned state funding...
...Ronald Reagan lived up to a campaign pledge last week, and the nation cheered. At a hastily arranged television appearance in the White House press room, the President referred to his promise that he would name a woman to the Supreme Court, explaining, "That is not to say I would appoint a woman merely to do so. That would not be fair to women, nor to future generations of all Americans whose lives are so deeply affected by decisions of the court. Rather, I pledged to appoint a woman who meets the very high standards I demand of all court...