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...Ferguson knows how to wrest contentious conclusions out of painstaking research. In The Pity of War (1998), he argued that the World War I was a fight Britain should have ducked. In Empire (and an accompanying six-part series on Britain's Channel Four), he charts how, over a span of 300 years, Britain laid claim to a quarter of the planet's land surface and its people. The tale he tells is astonishing - but what really astounds is Ferguson's glowing praise. Contemporary historians routinely decry the Empire's sins; Ferguson celebrates it for dragging the world into...
...first came after the Dutchmen had nearly taken the lead early in the second period, thanks to four minutes of power play time in a 4:11 span. But the moment Crimson defender Noah Welch stepped out of the box after a roughing minor, sophomore forward Tom Cavanagh one-timed a gorgeous pass from freshman defenseman Tom Walsh past Mayotte to give Harvard a 1-0 lead...
...little heft behind it. In December, Secretary of State Colin Powell gave an important speech, in which he said the U.S. must give "sustained and energetic attention to economic, political and educational reform" in the Middle East. Powell then announced a new U.S.--Middle East Partnership Initiative to span the "hope gap" with "energy, ideas and funding." There will be rather more of the first two than the last, since the program currently has only $29 million to spend. (To be fair, the Administration can reply that it intends to increase the funds for worldwide development assistance over the next...
...room, jammed with well-wishers, a handful of reporters and one of those ever present C-SPAN cameras, went silent for a moment. And so did the rest of Washington, for a few days. But Lott had set off a time bomb. During the 1948 race Lott was referring to, Thurmond had broken with the Democratic Party over President Truman's expansion of civil rights for black Americans. Thurmond ran for President as the nominee of the States' Rights Party, also known as the Dixiecrats. Its platform was built almost entirely around a pledge to uphold "the segregation...
...most of its galloping 2-hr. 45-min. span, Gangs confidently enlarges this triangle to include the sweeping vision of a New York suddenly swarming with immigrants. Displaying an urgency and elegance unmatched by any other living auteur, Scorsese finds drama in visual contrast: a door in a dark, noisy room that is kicked open to reveal a silent, snow-laden street. One amazing panorama shows men coming off a ship from Ireland, being immediately conscripted and outfitted in Northern blue, then put on a troop ship--all in a single shot that ends with a view of the troop...