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...Battle of San Juan Heights. (It wasn't actually San Juan Hill they charged up.) In typical TR fashion, he brought with him two men toting a tripod and camera, who filmed the invasion. And other journalists reported the heroic exploits of the Rough Riders who helped drive the Spanish off the heights...
...immigration is the major contributing factor to bilingualism. Although I am an immigrant, I still disapprove of our government's irresponsible immigration policy. Deian Stankov Clarksburg, Maryland, U.S. It's worth noting that the official website of the U.S. President, whitehouse.gov, offers the option of viewing that site in Spanish. I suppose if English were to become the official language, the website would have to change, and that could pose a problem at election time. Moreover, I think more revenue would be collected if tax forms continue to be available in Spanish. I suppose with the new mentality of Fortress...
...million Age, in years, of the oldest known spiderweb--entombed in a piece of Spanish amber--announced last week...
...thing that began expanding the moment it was born. (It tells you something that he never got over the habit of casting covetous glances toward Canada.) But not until just before he reached the presidency had the nation finally burst through its continental confines. In 1898 the Spanish-American War and its aftermath had placed under U.S. supervision a whole collection of territories and dependencies: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. Suddenly, to Roosevelt's utter delight, the U.S. was acting on a world stage, across two oceans. As Assistant Secretary of the Navy under McKinley--a job that...
...right, of course. Roosevelt sounded the first chords of the American Century. But the Spanish-American War was a quick and easy victory. Although it was followed by a bloody anti-American insurgency in the Philippines, one that dragged on through Roosevelt's presidency, for the most part he did not live to see the lethal predicaments a global power can face. We can't know what he might have thought about Vietnam, much less Iraq. His expansionist impulse had its idealistic side; he too talked about spreading democracy. And you could see its legacy in developments after his death...